According to the Ludwig von Mises Institute’s 2012 IRS 501(c)(3) tax-exempt filing, it reported a total of $22,268,915 in assets. We see then, how the promotion of Austrian economics is big business, and why its associates and founder, Lew Rockwell, are limited in what positions they will take on certain issues. For example, Lew Rockwell […]
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 106. I was a guest today on the Peter Schiff Show (guest host Stefan Molyneux), discussing: ObamaCare’s Next Legal Hurdle. Stephan Kinsella, patent attorney & director of the Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom, on how ObamaCare still fails any reasonable legal test, whether anything constructive may come from the Apple/Samsung […]
Kinsella on Liberty Podcast, Episode 100. Note: Also podcast at PFP116. This is my speech at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society (Sept. 22, 2013, Bodrum, Turkey). The video and slides are below. See also the Q&A panel [PFP117], which contains several interchanges between me and Sean Gabb about this issue. […]
My Mises Daily article How We Come To Own Ourselves (Sep. 7, 2006, Mises.org blog discussion; audio version) has been translated into Spanish, by Josep Purroy: Cómo los niños se vuelven dueños de sí mismos.
The Capital Free Press has compiled a list of the top ranked “libertarian websites based on the number of unique visitors in the most recent month according to the data compiled by Compete.” The post is pasted below. Not surprisingly, LewRockwell.com is the most visited libertarian site. Four of my own sites made the list: […]
Interesting piece in The Daily Bell: Mr. Goldberg Apologizes for His Mises/Phone Booth Crack?. Apropos this, see my 2001 LRC article about this little punk, On Jonah Goldberg’s Youthful Phase.
From the Louisiana Civil Code: Art. 2931. Use of the thing deposited The depositary may not use the thing deposited without the express or implied permission of the depositor. Consider this in light of advocates of fractional-reserve banking, who claim that the customer who lends money to a “bank” can naturally be referred to as […]
Hoppe has explained how Marx was “essentially correct” in his theory of history and class analysis. His main mistake was his understanding of exploitation, which was based on a flawed understanding of the labor theory of value. As Hoppe argues, drawing on Rothbardian libertarian and Austrian insights, the only meaningful exploitation is aggression against private […]
I majored in electrical engineering at LSU from 1983 to 1987. I had to take one economics course, my very first semester, which I ended up making an A in. But I did not like it. Never did like the idea of supply and demand curves, “elasticity” etc. I don’t think I had read much […]
From the Appendix to my post Objectivist Law Prof Mossoff on Copyright; or, the Misuse of Labor, Value, and Creation Metaphors, quoted below. See also “Objectivist Law Prof Mossoff on Copyright; or, the Misuse of Labor, Value, and Creation Metaphors”; “Hume on Intellectual Property and the Problematic “Labor” Metaphor”; “Thoughts on Intellectual Property, Scarcity, Labor-ownership, Metaphors, […]
