Airbnbs and VRBOs are out. What’s that you say? What are they? They are short term rentals. Residential occupants rent out their domiciles for anything from a day or two or three up to several weeks and maybe as long as a month or so. Perhaps the vendors go out of town for that stretch of time, and want to add a bit of spending money to their
Professor Paul Krugman asked a very important question in his January 10 New York Times essay “Trump’s Big Libertarian Experiment; Does contaminated food smell like freedom?”. In his opinion piece, Krugman maintained that the recently concluded governmental shutdown demonstrated the hypocrisy of Republicans. The Nobel Prize winning economist also
In addition to being a libertarian in political philosophy, I am also a member of the Austrian school of economics. Austrian economics has nothing to do with the economy of that European country. It is so named because its founding fathers all emanated from that part of the world. They include such European scholars as Carl Menger, Eugen von
I am a professor (I teach economics at Loyola University New Orleans). In my view, this means I should profess something. I would be bland and uninteresting to my students if all I did was offer them all sides of every controversial issue in an even-handed way, so that none of them even had a clue as to where I stood on any topic. Of course, I
At Freedom Fest, Walter Block was interviewed by CSPAN’s Book TV to discuss his new book Space Capitalism: How Humans Will Colonize Planets, Moons, and Asteroids. Click here to watch Dr. Block make the case for privatizing the final
If you’re reading this, you should be supporting the Mises Institute every month! I recently taught at the Mises University. This weekly experience is the highlight of my entire professional year, as it has been for lo these many decades. (When I started, I was an enfant terrible; now, I’m an old duffer. I don’t know what happened. Time goes by
Is socialism the enemy of the civilized order? It depends on what kind of socialism we are discussing. There are several varieties, not only one. If it is the version calling for government ownership and control of all the means of production, the complete nationalization of all industries, then yes, socialism is the work of the devil. All we need
The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) is an area of several city blocks in Seattle that has been taken over by a group of people unconnected with the government. They have established a police-free zone and are now busily administering this territory. Is this a voluntary socialist commune? A free enterprise zone? Are the new inhabitants who have
Four weeks ago I participated in a debate moderated by Bernardo Ferrero with Walter Block on the coronavirus quarantine . It is in English, but with the option of Spanish subtitles. (Which is why it took a while to
El tráfico en las grandes ciudades está paralizado. Esto es especialmente cierto durante las horas «punta» de la mañana y la tarde (comillas de miedo alrededor de esta palabra, ya que nadie va deprisa a ninguna parte, aparte de los ciclistas y patinadores, que son casi los que más rápido se mueven en este sistema). Con demasiada frecuencia, sin
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