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Friedrich Hayek: Champion of Liberty
From Richard Epstein: Thus Hayek’s 1940 contribution to the “Socialist Calculation” debate debunked the then-fashionable notion that master planners could achieve the economic nirvana of running a...
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Around the Web: “I’m Stuffed” Edition
I’m so full from food and dessert it’s not even funny. I’m back home in NorCal, too. I hope your holiday has been everything that mine has and more. Immigration: Giant low-hanging fruit. Have you ever...
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L’ Anarchisme et la recherche de la liberté: recommendations des Déserts du...
Je suis vieux mais j’ai quand même un copain lycéen à Paris. Je l’ai rencontré un Quatorze Juillet justement, en Californie où je vis depuis déjà longtemps. Ugo a quinze ou seize ans. Il me dit par...
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Has Foreign Affairs Been Reading NOL?
Hello all, I signed up for a pretty challenging final quarter here at school, so my postings will probably be scarce for the next two or three months. It seems Foreign Affairs, one of the more sober...
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Reading Hayek in Beijing
That’s the subject of a fascinating account of life in China through the eyes of a dissident in this last week’s Wall Street Journal. An excerpt: Put another way, the conventional notion that the...
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Around the Web
I apologize for the dearth of posts lately. I have been reading a lot of books the old-fashioned way, chasing girls down so that I can smell their hair and generally just enjoying life...
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Imperialism or Federalism: The Occupation of South Korea
A recent op-ed in Foreign Policy highlights South Korea’s very successful rent-seeking campaign in regard to US military services: When it comes to taking charge of coalition forces here on the Korean...
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Ah, se tivessem dado ouvidos às evidências científicas…
Lembra de todo “auê” em torno do Fome Zero? Aquele slogan bem breguinha de que quem tem fome quer furar fila, e tal? Pois é. Aí veio a POF de 2003 e descobriu-se que não havia tanto motivo para a...
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Around the Web
This is the 69th installment of ‘Around the Web’. Giggity! guaranteed income vs. open borders; Economist Kevin Grier weighs the options How poverty taxes the brain; A sexy-sounding female gives us the...
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Is China running out of cash?
Is China running out of cash? China Halts Bank Cash Transfers “The People’s Bank of China , the central bank, has just ordered commercial banks to halt cash transfers. ” Could we be seeing the start...
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Useful neoconservative insights
It is not common for liberals to praise neoconservative thinkers. Regardless if this concerns domestic politics or international affairs. While this normally makes a lot of sense, sometimes the...
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How to value international law as a classical liberal
I live in the ‘City of International Peace and Justice’ according to the city marketing of the municipality of The Hague. There is some truth in it, as the International Court of Justice, the...
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Hayekian Environmental Policy
Just as decentralized knowledge implies economic non-intervention, so too it implies environmental non-intervention. One of the contributions to economics made by the Austrian-school economist...
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A Liberal: To Be or Not To Be (Happy #LiberalismDay!)
What’s in a name? Dan Klein and Kevin Frei recently decided to launch a campaign dedicated to spreading awareness about the original meaning of the word ‘liberal’. At first I was a bit ambivalent about...
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Around the Web
Stiglitz and Toward a Theory of the Rent-Seeking Society The Truth About Our Libertarian Age; Straw men like this explain why libertarianism will continue to grow stronger. The Return of Karl Polanyi;...
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Normas, decisiones y complejidad
Hace pocos días, se publicó en el sitio americanscientist.org un ambicioso artículo sobre el concepto de lo aleatorio. El autor, Scott Aaronson, trataba de elucidar bajo qué criterio podíamos...
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Hume and Humboldt
Divergent dichotomies are not unusual to be found in Hayek’s writings. Besides the essay “Two Types of Mind”, we have his 1945 lecture “Individualism: True and False” on the difference between the...
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Hayek on Human Rights Day
It turns out it’s Human Rights Day today! I came across a call on Twitter: “Don’t fight for your rights. Fight for equal rights.” This reminded me of an argument from Hayek: “If we knew how freedom...
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A Humble Creed
I’m talking about substance, not style. Regrettably, someone could display arrogance while insisting that neither he nor anyone else could possibly know enough to plan other people’s lives. However...
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So you think war can be eliminated?
You might be one of those libertarians, or you belong to some other creed, who think war can be eliminated. For example through international trade, the better use of our ratio, or more influence for...
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