All posts tagged "Law"

Reprinted from Mises.org 1. The Contribution of Hume...

Reprinted from PanAm Post When discussing the exodus of peoples from communist regimes such as Cuba’s, it...

Excerpted from LewRockwell.com Because every action requires the employment of specific physical means – a body, standing...

Reprinted from Liberty.me It was a lovely day otherwise but, for me, most of it was spent...

Re: The case for retiring another barbarous relic Dear Sirs: I was appalled at your supposed “case” for eliminating cash, which you yourselves describe as the peoples’ “go-to safe asset”. And what IS your case? One, “cash…limits the central banks’ ability to stimulate a depressed economy.” Really? Although I am not in...

Dear Sirs: I will not take the time required to refute point-by-point Mr. Ed Conway’s latest attack upon a gold-backed currency. It is obvious that he is completely ignorant of monetary theory and history. Rather, I will ask Mr. Conway why governments must erect legal tenders laws around their fiat currencies, using...

Recently I posted a short essay listing three economic fallacies about the Greek crisis. The three were (1) the euro is too strong a currency for Greece, (2) debasing its own currency will allow Greece to export its way to recovery and prosperity, and (3) instituting its own currency will allow the...

Re: The make believe world of eurozone rules Dear Sir: In your otherwise fine column today-Monday, July 27, 2015-you conclude with this statement: “…Germany does not want to grant Greece debt relief for political reasons, and is using European law as a pretext.” Earlier in your column you pointed out that Article...

  Leave both the European Union (EU) and the European Monetary Union (EMU). These are very flawed institutions. In his prescient book Tragedy of the Euro, Professor Philip Bagus uses the term “misconstructed”, which I think is very descriptive of the EU and the EMU. There is nothing that the European Union...

Reprinted from the Freeman Arthur Firstenberg sued his neighbor over a WiFi connection. Firstenberg asked for more than...

Re: The Perils of Globalization Dear Sirs: I believe that Binyamin Appelbaum may have unwittingly answered his own question about why American workers who lose their jobs-as illustrated by the former Maytag employees in Galesburg, Illinois-have such a difficult time finding alternative employment of the same standard. Mr.Applebaum reports that America is...

Reprinted from The Freeman Political wisdom, dearly bought by the bitter experience of generations, is often lost through...

Reprinted from LewRockwell.com Dear Mr. Read: Congratulations on publishing the stimulating and challenging article on “Ownership and...

A recent business innovation that has seen wide market acceptance is the bundling of goods and services....

Exactly one hundred and fifty years ago, the United States Congress passed the 13th Amendment to the...

If you ever want to disrupt a room of libertarians, you should bring up the topic of...

Given the essentiality of peace and prosperity to the quality of human life, the significance of private...

Re: George Will on the mushrooming welfare state Columnist George Will puts recent research into the adverse consequences of the welfare state into words that we all can understand. However, I do not think that he gets to the heart of the problem. The welfare state grows because there is no clear line...

Originally published in Contemporary Review of London, April 1938. Reprinted from Mises.org IV But if democracy had to...

Originally published in Contemporary Review of London, April 1938. Reprinted from Mises.org The link between classical liberalism...