Classifying People By State Rather Than Occupation Simply Justifies The State http://www.capitalismv3.com/2011/12/28/classifying-people-by-state-rather-than-occupation-simply-justifies-the-state/
Source date (UTC): 2011-12-28 13:50:34 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/152023639464755200
Today, Krugman yet again argues that there is a lack of demand. Yes, there is a lack of demand, I agree. There is a lack of demand because our lower classes are unproductive in comparison to their peers in the world. There is a lack of demand for their labor. Since there is a lack of demand for their labor, there is a lack of money for them to spend. A state is merely one means of classifying people, and it’s a convenient one for statists, whose only purpose is to justify expansion of the state. In a world of relatively free trade, people are citizens of their occupational sector. The American upper classes have moved ahead with the rest of the world economy, and the American lower classes have not. And the reason for that failure is state policy, and in particular, state policy on education. State policy on education is more concerned with achieving political unity between disparate races and cultures than it is in creating productive citizens who can compete in the world market, and therefore create demand. Harrison Bergeron writes for TheTimes.
http://www.capitalismv3.com/2011/12/28/classifying-people-by-state-rather-than-occupation-simply-justifies-the-state/Lack of Demand. But for What? Yet another excuse for justifying the expansion of the state.
Source date (UTC): 2011-12-28 08:49:00 UTC
http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/27/why-the-establishment-really-fears-ron-paul/”For every one of Paul’s foreign policy positions the Republican establishment calls “nuts,” you can find revered conservative figures, past and present, who have expressed similar positions: The Iraq War was a “mistake” (Bill Buckley, Robert Novak, Jack Kemp); America shouldn’t be the “world’s policeman” (Paul Weyrich, Grover Norquist, Dick Armey); America’s constant intervention overseas causes “blowback” (Russell Kirk, Richard Weaver, Pat Buchanan).”
Source date (UTC): 2011-12-27 10:59:00 UTC
Over On The Economist, an unnamed author writes that the Hondurans are sponsoring a libertarian experiment:
, libertarians have a real chance to implement their ideas. In addition to a big special development region, the Honduran government intends to approve two smaller zones. And two libertarian-leaning start-ups have already signed a preliminary memorandum of understanding with the Honduran government to develop them.
Then references this chart which lists other attempts at libertarian utopias.
But they only serve to illustrate the futility of these paradises. The biggest problem for any libertarian venture, is that the cost of developing an economy on anything other than LAND that contains human beings who may act as consumers is simply too high for an economy to form. The sea is, so to speak, infertile soil. The cost of prohibiting rent-seeking is equally high. Libertarianism states will be created by the application of violence against those who do not wish to possess freedom, and maintained only by the application of violence against those who would steal freedom. Silly anarchic fantasies to the contrary. Monarchy. Rule of the One-Law Under Common Law. Private government. Freedom. Violence is the source of freedom. Do not surrender your violence without demanding freedom in exchange.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olEp_3Spc1gThe Queen’s Christmas broadcast. (I love the Queen)
Monarchy under rule of law that mandates private property is Private Government.
The best form of government humans have yet invented. (And we had to screw it up with democracy and democratic secular socialist humanism.)
Source date (UTC): 2011-12-25 12:57:00 UTC
BLEEDING HEARTS OR ANARCHISTS?
There is a movement called ‘Neo-Classical Liberalism’, whose members refer to themselves as “bleeding heart libertarians”. This movement combines classical anglo american political institutions and the classical liberal sentiments in favor of freedom and innovation, with libertarian economic and political insights, new institutional economics, and modern macro economics.
I’m torn between trying to coalesce that movement somewhat or simply attempting to repair Austrian Libertarian theory on it’s own by fixing the hole left in praxeology by the failure to incorporate forgone opportunity costs. — It is really a matter of audiences. But audiences matter.
The rothbardian movement is doing such a good job of promoting libertarianism – albiet among relative populists. The Hoppeians are infinitesimally small in number. (Hans might not like it but I consider myself a Hoppeian). But the Neo-Classical Liberal program has a chance of selling to the broad conservative audience.
So my plan is to bring the ‘Propertarian Methodology’ of Rothbard and Hoppe to the Neo-Classical Liberal framework, by adding my work on forgone opportunity costs to the Propertarian body of work. This should solve the problem of explaining the differences between Hayek and Mises, and represent them as a single, unified, spectrum of reasoning differing only in temporal preference.
Propertarian reasoning is the only fully rational explanation of ethics ever developed. Propertarianism unites ethics, economics and politics with econometrics. Combined with the insights provided by the debate over economic calculation and incentives, Propertarianism allows us to fully describe human activity as rational, but limited by knowledge, and fraught with error.
I realize this is geek speak. But maybe there are a handful of geeks out there who are vaguely interested. 🙂
My other goal is to write in short, clear sentences.
I have less confidence in achieving that goal than in solving the greater philosophical problems that I’ve set my mind to.
Source date (UTC): 2011-12-16 08:22:00 UTC
http://mises.org/daily/5830/Is-the-United-States-Too-Big-to-SucceedEurope doesn’t need tighter integration, and the USA needs to split up.
Source date (UTC): 2011-12-12 16:38:00 UTC
Warriors, Soldiers, Citizens, States and Empires http://www.capitalismv3.com/index.php/2011/12/warriors-soldiers-citizens-states-and-empires/
Source date (UTC): 2011-12-11 13:47:52 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/145862363113979904
Democracy is Irrelevant for The Creation Of Prosperity. http://www.capitalismv3.com/index.php/2011/12/democracy-is-irrelevant-for-the-creation-of-prosperity/
Source date (UTC): 2011-12-08 14:59:47 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/144793298962362370