Thanks to the Rational Review News Digest : Germans may need licence to watch TV on computers Computer owners in Germany will need a TV licence in future after German TV and Radio Licensing Authorities proved PCs could be used to watch the telly. The fee will be collected whether the computer has been equipped to receive radio and television with
“Chronic unemployment is obviously a political disease that springs from the primitive notion that government can improve everyone’s income and working conditions by legislation and regulation.” Hans Sennholz tells the truth: Politics Causes Unemployment -- and the minimum wage laws are only part of the picture. “Whenever government forcibly
Libertarian comicbook writer Paul Pope is at it again. The creator of the famed 1998 comic Batman & Mises has now written Batman: Year One Hundred . Is the Dark Knight battling Nazis again? No, this time his target is Police State America! According to the current Wired magazine, The series is set in a high-anxiety future, where totalitarianism
Gary North has a great piece on LRC today, explaining why organizations like the Mises Institute are so different: Here is my main thesis: The mark of sclerosis of an ideological organization is its failure to commit to its own past. If today’s troops are not reminded of the consistency of the vision and the sacrifices that went before, there is
Before this past summer, I’d listened to every Mises University available in MP3. Even the lectures the same professors repeat over the years -- Gordon ‘s ‘Theory and History,’ Salerno ‘s ‘Profit, Loss, and Entrepreneurship’ and ‘The Marginalist Revolution,’ Hoppe on Praxeology -- I enjoy the review and I enjoy seeing what they do regularly and
While looking up the names of some of Mises’s relatives, I came upon this piece of personal history at JewishGen® ShtetLinks: Adele Mises Remembers . . . A Day in the House of My Parents (Mrs. Adele Mises dictated her reminiscences to a relative around 1929. Born in 1858, she was a granddaughter of Moses Kallir, grandniece of Mayer Kallir,
In the last edition of The Freeman , David Levin and Michele Boldrin argue that “innovation could thrive” without an IP regime. And they propose that an “ open-source “ model can accomplish this feat. Two heads are better than one... F or those unfamiliar with the open-source paradigm, in a nutshell, its proponents suggest that in terms of
The ancient transgressions of murder, pillage, bestiality, thievery, and rape still shout from the headlines. O Tempora, O Mores, as the ancients proclaimed in dismay a couple millennia ago: meaning what crummy people, what crummy times. They ought to read this morning’s paper — they’d yearn for ancient Rome. Then as now, the human heart is
Sophistpundit gives What Has Government Done to Our Money ( print , audio ) a mostly favorable review , but he does have this reservation: [Rothbard] makes a good case for opening up currency to the free market, but I think that his clear fixation with gold is a real flaw in the work. There is no denying the historical significance of gold as the
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