Walter Block’s website, WalterBlock.com , is now online and has recently been updated to include online links to dozens of his hundreds of publications. A great resource.
In response to requests from readers, listed below are links to several IP-related articles, most available on Mises.org: Property/Rights-based Arguments Against Intellectual Property , Spring 2001, Vol. 15, no. 2 Journal of Libertarian Studies , Stephan Kinsella In Defense of Napster and Against the Second Homesteading Rule , September 4, 2000,
Classic article by der Hoppster now available online: Time Preference, Government, and the Process of De-Civilization - From Monarchy to Democracy , Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines , Vol.5, 2, 1994; also published in John Denson, ed., The Cost of War (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers,
From your friendly neighborhood WalterBlock.com webmaster: online versions for literally dozens of Professor Block’s articles have been added to his publications page tonight. Thanks, in part, to the scanning and coding efforts of his tireless Loyola assistant Charles
The Virtual World as a Company Town - Freedom of Speech in Massively Multiple Online Role Playing Games ( entire paper ) — may interest some (though it’s written from a mainstream law
I’m co-author of a forthcoming legal book on political risk, International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide . My co-author, an excellent but mainstream international lawyer in Paris, has added to the draft the following paragraph on the nature of “risk” and “profit opportunities”, and he has quoted Keynes.
As Lew Rockwell mentioned , Thomas Woods appeared on Hannity & Colmes tonight, to discuss his new book The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History . My wife and I saw it. I proudly proclaimed, “there’s my Mises bud!” and even she said, “Wow, he just spanked that liberal dude.” Indeed Woods was impressive. He educated a seemingly
I recalled recently an utterly fascinating legal squabble I read about when I lived in Philadelphia. Could such a thing be used by far-thinking libertarians to set up a future freedom advocacy foundation, or even a libertarian country? This concerns the infamous Holdeen Trusts ( link 2 ), and a series of cases and legal disputes centered around
My neighborhood, West University Place, is a small, self-contained little island of a city within Houston. It’s only about 2 square miles; but it’s fairly densely packed, about 10,000 families. Unlike Houston proper, West U has zoning. And most of its residents like it this way including, I confess, yours truly. A recently passed ordinance (sec.
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