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Potpourri

==> The latest Contra Krugmans: Episode 140 on fascism in Europe, and Episode 141 on the Swiss “sovereign money” referendum (i.e. 100% reserve banking). ==> OK in this David Roberts column for Vox, he is reviewing Infinity War. (Caution: Major spoilers in the review.) I can’t quote him here since I don’t want to spoil […]

More Hatchet Jobbery From MacLean

David R. Henderson reports on another outrageous (and I use that term carefully) smearing of her opponents in Nancy MacLean’s book on Buchanan. First I’ll do the Buchanan one, and then I’ll showcase how she also smeared Rothbard (HT2 Roderick Long). Regarding Buchanan, here’s what MacLean wrote: Koch learned as a young adult, from his […]

Provocative Potpourri

==> Tom Woods has an ensemble on to explain why Murray Rothbard was important. And if you protest, “Why are you guys so sectarian?!” all I can say is, “They started it!!” ==> Oh, now that I’ve posted my sample Liberty Classroom lecture, I don’t mind posting this Contra Krugman episode where we mention the […]

Time for Bryan Caplan to Give Rothbard Another Look

Alex Tabarrok has a post explaining that (government) water systems have been bad on lead contamination for a century; it’s not just an isolated problem in Flint. There’s no way I can talk about this without sounding like a punk, so I simply remind everyone of Bryan Caplan’s EconLog post from 2014 entitled “Why Do […]

Reconciling Marginal Productivity Theory of Factor Payments With No-Profit in Equilibrium

My latest Mises CA responds to a reader who thought he had discovered a contradiction in Rothbard. An excerpt: Notice that in this outcome, it is still true that an entrepreneur earns a “surplus” on the inframarginal units. However, such an entrepreneur is starting out with a bunch of fixed costs (based on other expenditures […]

Potpourri

==> I’ve been really enjoying Tom Woods’ show lately. Not to downplay the other guests, but make sure you catch Michael Malice on the cops and Scott Horton on the Senate torture report. ==> Speaking of the torture report, apparently Americans aren’t too worried about it. And Dick Cheney explicitly says that he would rather […]

Rothbard on Torture

Every once in a while, someone who wants to stick it to Rothbardians will pull up this passage: “We may qualify this discussion in one important sense: police may use such coercive methods provided that the suspect turns out to be guilty, and provided that the police are treated as themselves criminal if the suspect […]

Anarchy, State, and Government: No Means No

Sometimes you can read something that you’ve heard a thousand times before, but for whatever reason it hits you in a new way that changes your whole perspective. That recently happened to me when I was reading Albert Jay Nock’s Our Enemy, the State. To understand the context, you should know that I am a […]