Corporatism

The Economics of the Baby Shortage

by Jeffrey Tucker January 2, 2012

Richard Posner and Elisabeth Landes wrote this excellent paper in 1978, but I’m only now seeing it. It speaks of the terrible inefficiencies — pervasive shortages and surpluses — that come with state adoption agencies and their price controlled system of allocating the right to raise children. They address all the usual objections to a [...]

Read the full article →

SOPA, Piracy, Censorship and the End of the Internet? Kinsella and Stefan Molyneux on Freedomain Radio

by Stephan Kinsella December 22, 2011

Stefan Molyneux interviewed me yesterday for his Freedomain Radio program about the evil Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA. We discussed the First Amendment violations of and other problems with SOPA. Audio is here and streamed below: FDR_2060_sopa_kinsella_interview.mp3 (24.7 MB; local copy). (And check out Youtube’s cool “snowflake” feature.) [c4sif]

Read the full article →

The evil SOPA is dead …. for now…. [Update: or not...]

by Stephan Kinsella December 16, 2011

Update, from Masnick’s post below: “Update…. Or not. Despite the fact that Congress was supposed to be out of session until the end of January, the Judiciary Committee has just announced plans to come back to continue the markup this coming Wednesday. This is rather unusual and totally unnecessary. But it shows just how desperate [...]

Read the full article →

LSU Football, Trademark, and “Honey Badger”

by Stephan Kinsella December 8, 2011

I received three very useful and taxpayer-subsidized degrees from LSU. But I’ve never given them a dime, and never will (I do donate to my private high school, Baton Rouge’s Catholic High School). Up till now, there were two reasons for this. First, it’s a state university. I think they should be abolished. Second, like [...]

Read the full article →

Down with Gatekeepers: Hillary Clinton and the Obama Administration vs. Internet Freedom

by Stephan Kinsella December 6, 2011

Last year, in Hillary Clinton’s Historic Speech on Global Internet Freedom, Adam Thierer praised Hillary Clinton for a speech drawing a bold line in the cyber-sand regarding exactly where the United States stands on global online freedom. Clinton’s answer was unequivocal: “Both the American people and nations that censor the Internet should understand that our government [...]

Read the full article →

Gabb on Milne’s Time to Say No: Alternatives to EU Membership

by Stephan Kinsella November 22, 2011

English libertarian Sean Gabb, Director of the Libertarian Alliance, has just published an excellent book review of Ian Milne’s Time to Say No: Alternatives to EU Membership. It’s appended below. This little review is chock full of great insights. He explains that the EU, while it does not really infringe UK sovereignty–”this country is governed [...]

Read the full article →

The Chamber Says: No Unauthorized Progress!

by Jeffrey Tucker November 18, 2011

Auburn, Alabama, experienced some tornado damage the other day, and the place was just a mess. Trees were down. Houses had collapse. Fences were in tatters. Yards were trash heaps. The damage was not major by any standard but there was plenty to do in the wake of this one. As happens, enterprise was there [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →