guy’s channel is definitely worth subscribing to…
5 historical misconceptions rundown
Poor dog.
@JJ: Nice!
My issue is his quick, offhanded, “oh-so-obvious” “taxes buy civilization”
@Williamloveseconomics: The video is free energy crap. Nirvana fallacy (free energy = Utopia!). But even leaving that aside, the guy doesn’t realize he’s contradicting himself… we perceive harmony in Nature yet all other life forms we know of manage to flourish without free energy. So why do we have to have free energy in order to thrive?
Clayton -
@Clayton. Thanks for the sum up. I got about 15 minutes in a lost interest. Never got me hooked in like the Mises lectures do.
Can anyone help me find an essay that was (and may still be) found on Mises.org? It was an article by an Austrian Economist (I believe this was his only published article) that essentially claimed that Mises was wrong in the Socialist Calculation Debate. It turns out that it was actually well-written but that his claim that Mises was wrong was little more than a dramatic flourish that he nevertheless tried to maintain throughout the article–everything he pointed out was made very clear by Mises in his various publications after his Socialist Commonwealth article (Socialism, Bureaucracy, Human Action, et al). Accepting the claim required ignoring the clear spirit of Mises (by only looking at the calculation debate, and even then one had to do so rather narrowly) to arrive at his conclusion. His writing nevertheless was very lucid, especially regarding the role that private entrepeneurs play in limiting each other’s decisions in the market, etc.
It was published in 2007 and I believe his last name was Mahaj, although I could be mistaken. Does this sound familiar to anyone?
Oh, and before anyone asks: no, it wasn’t Caplan.
Here’s a fun one for you (actually NSFW)
Oregon Man strips naked to protest airport security TSA
Those weren’t it (but thanks those will help nonentheless)…I’m sure that the essay I’m referring to actually won some kind of distinction from the Mises Academy in 2007…I’m pretty sure also that it was proof-read by Salerno…this is driving me crazy!
The worst part is that it’s on my computer somewhere, because I highlighted key arguments in the pdf and made notes via adobe.
Mateusz Machaj, “Market Socialism and the Property Problem: Different Perspectives of the Socialist Calculation Debate” [PDF]
It won the Lawrence W. Fertig Prize in 2009.
That’s it!!! Son of a… Thanks JJ.
It would be fun if they actually called them ‘Big Brother Boxes’.
I think they should call them “Warm and Caring Happiness Boxes As Mandated by the Ministry of Love”.
I wonder what kind of information those boxes will be gathering?