All Entries in the "Economics" Category
Antistate of the Union – Government is not society, it is the cancer killing it.
by M. D. Roe on Thu, 2012/04/19, Journal of Antistatist Studies I address the nation, alien to it. With much apprehension I do this for I question the very foundation of its singularity. I am not impressed by its guns, its agents of enforcement, its character, its “concern” for the “well-being” of its citizens, contortion of economic [...]
Capitalist Vistas: Walt Whitman and Spontaneous Order
Democratic Vistas is widely and rightly regarded as the greatest of Walt Whitman’s prose works, and in it we find extensive evidence of his sympathy with ideas broadly in accord with Hayek’s vision of social evolution and the kind of order that evolution produces. Later we will focus on the way the very form of Whitman’s [...]
The NFL Draft and the Division of Labor
Tonight, the second-most-popular televised football broadcast of the year takes place from New York’s Radio City Music Hall. ESPN will broadcast round one of the NFL Draft, with the remaining rounds to be broadcast on Friday and Saturday. An estimated 40 million people will watch the draft, an event that even for the most interested [...]
Arguing with Statists: How Statism Obfuscates Good Intent with Political Objectives
Obfuscation of intent in political objectives is a hallmark of statism and one of the primary methods by which statist politicians will push forward their own careers or the statist agenda, cogently or not. This occurs on both the left and the right of the statist political spectrum. These misunderstandings in intent also happen to [...]
Murray Rothbard’s critique of Samuel Edward Konkin’s New Libertarian Manifesto
From Strategy of the New Libertarian Alliance,Number One, May Day 1981, 3-11, a critique of the New Libertarian Manifesto [NLM] by the late agorist theoretician, Samuel Edward Konkin III (1947-2004); reprinted as “The Anti-Party Mentality” in Libertarian Vanguard, Aug.-Sep. 1981. Rothbard dated his submission November 10, 1980. The political context within which he wrote may be dated, but not the [...]
1 in 2 new graduates are jobless or underemployed
WASHINGTON (AP) — The college class of 2012 is in for a rude welcome to the world of work. A weak labor market already has left half of young collegegraduates either jobless or underemployed in positions that don’t fully use their skills and knowledge. Young adults with bachelor’s degrees are increasingly scraping by in lower-wage jobs — waiter or [...]
BUT WHAT ABOUT THE ROADS?
Posted by Darian Worden on Apr 11, 2012 from Center for a Stateless Society While today’s states are very powerful, cracks in their power can open as they adapt to a changing world. Recession is not the only force of change. Economic and social practices and pressures that develop through increasing global contact will have a massive [...]
State-Capitalist Plutocracy or Free Market Prosperity?
Posted by Darian Worden on Apr 11, 2012 from the Center for a Stateless Society While today’s states are very powerful, cracks in their power can open as they adapt to a changing world. Recession is not the only force of change. Economic and social practices and pressures that develop through increasing global contact will have a [...]
