Austrian Economics

Somin on Gary Johnson and Ron Paul: A Reply

by Matt Mortellaro May 25, 2011

Ilya Somin over at The Volokh Conspiracy, it seems, is no more a fan of Ron Paul now than he was four years ago. His criticisms remain about the same. This time around, though, he’s got a candidate to contrast Paul with in Gary Johnson. His conclusion? Johnson is a better libertarian than Paul. My [...]

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Winning the Battle of Ideas

by Isaac Bergman April 28, 2011

Major kudos to John Papola and Russ Roberts on the release of their latest EconStories.tv project: To call this a “rap video” doesn’t do it any justice; the phrasing of the lyrics is clear, precise and natural in that it doesn’t seem forced. Who ever said that economics is a dismal science?

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Mimi & Eunice: Just Some Old Junk I Don’t Want

by Nina Paley April 26, 2011

[...] . . . → Read More: Just Some Old Junk I Don’t Want

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Is Libertarianism a Gnostic or Utopian Political Movement?

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché April 24, 2011

This post is excerpted and adapted from the concluding chapter of my dissertation, wherein I addressed two related objections to libertarianism in general and to my account of Aristotelian liberalism in particular: utopianism and gnosticism, the latter being sort of a theological version of the former. Does the theory of virtue ethics and natural rights [...]

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Idealistic Politics

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché April 21, 2011

But what we in politics wish to know is whether Mr. Minister X understands his business, whether he has initiative, whether he is informed, whether he steals more than is absolutely necessary, whether he lies more than is publicly beneficial, and so on … — Eric Voegelin In other words, just tweak a few things here [...]

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Arthur C. Clarke vs. Economics and Capitalism

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché March 30, 2011

A few years ago in honor of Arthur C. Clarke’s then-recent birthday, I wrote on my own blog that he must never have read Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard, because according to this quote cited by Gregory Benford in his happy-birthday letter in Locus Magazine (January 2008), he claims that “there are some general [...]

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Passing a BillMeNow For Later

by Isaac Bergman March 3, 2011

Jeremy B. White of the NY Observer writes: “City Council Member Brad Lander introduced a bill today that would require banks to help pay for the upkeep of foreclosed homes by posting bonds with a minimum value of $10,000.” What he failed to write was that if this bill were to pass, new mortgage applications would [...]

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