From Mises Blog, July 12, 2006 Taxing Astronauts and the President 07/12/2006 Stephan Kinsella Maybe some tax expert can set me straight on the following assumptions, but from what I can tell, federal income tax law technically should make it virtually impossible to have a space program and to have anyone but a billionaire as […]
Jakub Wozinski, who previously published “Hayek and Departure from Praxeology” in Libertarian Papers, asked me to post the draft of his working paper “A Priori of Justice,” the text of which is appended below (RTF; PDF). His note is below. Feel free to email comments to him or leave them in the comments field below. […]
Mises post; archived comments below. Why Should the Government be Limited? 09/28/2011Stephan Kinsella In Sheldon Richman’s excellent Freeman column Elizabeth Warren’s Non Sequitur, he rightly criticizes the abysmal logic expressed by Elizabeth Warren, the demonrat who’s running for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts. In her remarks in this video (see below) she says: There is nobody in this country who got […]
From the Mises blog: State Hypocrisy on Anti-Bribery Laws JULY 10, 2011 by STEPHAN KINSELLA In 1977 the US enacted the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), which makes it a crime for American citizens and businesses to bribe foreign public officials for business purposes. It also imposes certain accounting standards on public US companies, which I wrote about […]
The 64 Unique Patents January 25, 2011 | Stephan Kinsella | 10 Comments Update: Patents Kill: Compulsory Licenses and Genzyme’s Life Saving Drug January 19, 2011 | Stephan Kinsella | 6 Comments Kinsella: “Intellectual Freedom and Learning Versus Patent and Copyright” January 18, 2011 | Stephan Kinsella | 13 Comments Objectivist Greg Perkins on Intellectual […]
My article, “Intellectual Freedom and Learning Versus Patent and Copyright,” was published today in Economic Notes (No. 113, Jan. 18, 2011), a publication of the UK-based Libertarian Alliance. (This article is based on my speech of Nov. 6, 2010, at the 2010 Students for Liberty Texas Regional Conference, University of Texas, Austin; audio and video […]
From today’s Mises Blog: Introduction to Libertarian Legal Theory January 3, 2011 by Mises Daily [edit] Libertarianism is both old and new. It is rooted in ancient ideas of natural justice, fairness, peace, and cooperation. You could even say that any civilized society is already somewhat libertarian. After all, civilization requires peace and cooperation. FULL […]
From the Mises Blog; archived comments below. State Antitrust (anti-monopoly) law versus state IP (pro-monopoly) law 11/12/2010 Stephan Kinsella As discussed in previous posts, the state grants monopolies (patents and copyright) then penalizes companies for using (“abusing”) them, in contravention of state antitrust law–so that there is a “tension” between these state laws.1 (And of […]
No, he was not talking about marriage. He was talking about an aspect of the praxeological approach to economics, in which we start with certain incontestable (apriori) propositions (related to human action and its categories), and we explicitly introduce certain contingent facts to make the inquiry interesting. For example, we posit a society with money […]
I’ve noted before a central error of arguments for intellectual property (IP) is the idea that creation is an independent source of rights (see Libertarian Creationism; Rand on IP, Owning “Values”, and “Rearrangement Rights”; Locke, Smith, Marx and the Labor Theory of Value; this comment to “Trademark and Fraud”; Elaborations on Randian IP; Objectivists on […]
