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Are All TV Commercials Aimed at Ignorance?

by Wilton Alston January 8, 2012

Pretty much everyone knows–or should know–that many, and maybe most, of the points made by most politicians are of little value, amounting to little more than equine feces at best. A commercial I saw the other day illustrated that the same is true of TV commercials. (Yes, I realize that’s no discovery. But still…) The [...]

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Laissez Faire Books Reborn!

by Stephan Kinsella January 3, 2012

As noted previously, the venerable Laissez Faire Books–whose catalog I devoured and used for years in the 80s and 90s as a source of libertarian and free market books–was recently purchased by Agora Financial, which then hired Jeff Tucker as Executive Editor. The site was rolled out today and it’s really nice, and sure to [...]

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Kinsella’s “The Social Theory of Hoppe” Course: Audio and Slides

by Stephan Kinsella January 1, 2012

Last year I presented four Mises Academy Mises Academy courses: “Rethinking Intellectual Property” (a reprise of one taught previously in 2010); “Libertarian Legal Theory”; “Libertarian Controversies”; and “The Social Theory of Hoppe“. Plus: “Obama’s Patent Reform: Improvement or Continuing Calamity?,” a Mises Academy webinar. The audio and slides for the first three courses listed can be [...]

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Kinsella’s “Libertarian Legal Theory” Course: Audio and Slides

by Stephan Kinsella January 1, 2012

Last year I presented a 6 week Mises Academy course, “Libertarian Legal Theory: Property, Conflict, and Society,” discussed in my Mises Daily article “Introduction to Libertarian Legal Theory.” This course followed on the heels of my previous Mises Academy course, “Rethinking Intellectual Property: History, Theory, and Economics” (audio and slides), about which one student wrote [...]

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Kinsella’s “Libertarian Controversies” Course: Audio and Slides

by Stephan Kinsella December 31, 2011

At the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society (May 27-29, 2011), I delivered a speech entitled “Correcting some Common Libertarian Misconceptions.” The video is here, and streamed below. It engendered a good deal of discussion and interest, and I could only touch on a small number of the topics I had assembled over [...]

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New Anti-SOPA Song & Crowdsourced Video From Dan Bull

by Stephan Kinsella December 20, 2011

I noted previously a brilliant music video, “Death of ACTA,” by Dan Bull. (More on ACTA, which has unfortunately now been signed by several countries.) Now he’s back with a new one, in a very creative attempt to fight the evil Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA. As Mike Masnick notes in this Techdirt post [...]

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Semantics and IP Antics

by Isaac Bergman December 9, 2011

One of the reasons why IP-abolitionists oppose “intellectual property” is because IP monopolies in effect boil down to a restriction on existent ownership rights. To this charge, a common retort heard even from libertarians, is that all property rights are not absolute (i.e. “you can’t shoot your gun wherever you choose”, “the right to swing [...]

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