[Cross-posted at Mises Blog (archived comments below] Austrians and others interested in fractional-reserve banking (FRB) will find of interest a banking reform about to be proposed in the UK. Douglas Carswell, an Austrian economics-informed member of the UK parliament for Clacton, is planning to introduce a so-called “Ten Minute Rule Bill” after Prime Minister’s Questions tomorrow […]
I just ordered this cool new teeshirt. Too bad this other one, “Hoppe is my Homeboy,” was never produced! (Someone did this mockup a while back on a facebook page.)
Great review of Hoppe’s The Economics and Ethics of Private Property (1993) by Walter Block. Block’s review was published in the Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, vol. 7, num 1, Mars. 1996, pp. 161-65.
From the introduction to Joseph Salerno’s new book Money: Sound and Unsound (PDF): Since these essays on the gold standard were published my view has changed on one issue of some importance. I am much more sympathetic now than I was when I wrote my essay on “The Gold Standard: An Analysis of Some Recent Proposals” (Chapter 14) […]
From Mises blog: Mises and Rand (and Rothbard) February 4, 2005 8:35 PM by Stephan Kinsella (Archive) In a recent thread, a commentator (Feirman) wrote: “Rand herself didn’t agree with everything Mises wrote, such as his a priori methodology, subjectivism and utilitarianism, and I am sure that other Randians pick bones with other of his […]
Rockwell on IP and Emulation by Stephan Kinsella on February 21, 2010[edit] in Intellectual Property I confess that I hate self-promotion but I cannot resist reposting comments like the following from the single most important libertarian thinker and organizer of our generation: Daily Bell: One of the hardest issues to resolve from a free-market point […]
At the recent CES, Intel gave a demo of its vision of a future smartphone. This reminded me of my 2004 LRC post, The future of technology, about an NTT DoCoMo video forecasting the future of mobile communications. I’ve updated the links in that post; it’s interesting to see the forecast for the 2010s made […]
