(Austrian) Economics

Tom Woods’s Liberty Classroom

by Stephan Kinsella April 11, 2012

My friend Tom Woods has just launched an exciting new educational platform: Liberty Classroom, the tagline of which is: “The History They Didn’t Teach You.” As the website explains: The intellectual battle for the free society is on. Liberty Classroom’s ambitious goal is to equip as many ambassadors of liberty as possible with the knowledge [...]

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Education by Experience as the Only Hope for Mankind

by Stephan Kinsella April 9, 2012

a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason. —Thomas Paine It has been my experience that many libertarians abhor realism. They deride it as [...]

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Spike Lee’s Twitter Message About George Zimmerman and Causation under Libertarian Theory

by Stephan Kinsella March 31, 2012

As Bob Wenzel notes here: I hate to say this about a fellow Knicks fan and author of one of my favorite books, Best Seat in the House: A Basketball Memoir, but Spike Lee did something really stupid. He tweeted what he thought was the address of George Zimmerman, the shooter of Trayvon Martin. That’s [...]

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It’s Rothbard contra the conservatives this summer in Denver

by Ryan McMaken March 27, 2012

If you happen to be a University of Colorado student, or if you’d like to shell out lots of bucks as a non-degree student, join me this summer at the Denver campus for an upper-division, 3-credit-hour undergraduate seminar on the Conservative-Libertarian debate on the American right. We’ll consider the usual texts, but also the history [...]

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TLS Podcast Picks: Tibor Machan and Jeff Tucker

by Stephan Kinsella March 21, 2012

Recommended podcasts: Profiles in Liberty: Tibor Machan, by Stephen Hicks. Great profile of an important libertarian thinker and good friend of mine.  “Tibor Machan is professor of philosophy at Chapman University in California. He was born in Communist Hungary, smuggled out as a teenager, and came to the United States, where he earned his Ph.D. [...]

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Daily Bell Interview: Stephan Kinsella on the Logic of Libertarianism and Why Intellectual Property Doesn’t Exist

by Stephan Kinsella March 18, 2012

From The Daily Bell:   Stephan Kinsella on the Logic of Libertarianism and Why Intellectual Property Doesn’t Exist Sunday, March 18, 2012 – with Anthony Wile The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Stephen Kinsella (left). Introduction: Stephan Kinsella is a libertarian scholar and attorney in Houston. The Executive Editor of Libertarian [...]

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Does China do capitalism better than America?

by Tim Swanson March 14, 2012

First off let me be clear: I like the common Chinese person a great deal.  I empathize with their struggles, I lived in mostly rural areas for three years and hold no ill will towards them.  I hope the country develops and flourishes.  I wish them, as the polymath philosopher Borat says “great success!”  I [...]

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