This post continues a discussion begun in another thread: https://forum.freecapitalists.org/t/scarce-and-non-scarce-goods/14384/30 mgmcintyre replied on Wed, Aug 18 2010 8:27 AM Thanks for the good reply. Still absorbing the Hoppe stuff but had one comment about your second post. Adam: The mea…

So do you see IP as an unrelated issue to that of scarcity. Are we just talking definitions here are is there some specific implications of the subjective description of scarcity? Does your perspective undermine any Austrian insights?

Mgmcintyre: As I understand it, the arguments advanced against IP are essentially normative arguments. The idea is that since object X isn’t scarce, there ought not be laws preventing everyone or anyone from using object X. Possibly a Hoppean might phrase this differently, and say that since X isn…

One of the most important conceptual distinctions in praxeology is the distinction between means and ends. This post seeks to clarify something important about the distinction that seems not to be widely recognized or acknowledged. As a back-drop, consider this passage from Sir Arthur Eddington in …

Adam, do you have anything to say about IP?

Liberty Student: [image] Intellectual Property and Normative Social Theory Political Theory This post is an attempt to present some of the problems and issues surrounding the argument against the institution of Intellectual Property as they may be seen from an…

Adam, On means: “He considers the accumulation of more wealth as the only means to get satisfaction.”(Money, Method, and the Market Process, p.22) Here the “means” is an action, not a state of affairs, not an object, not a perceptual presence. Is this just a misleading use of English; did he real…

Hi AJ: You wrote: On means: “He considers the accumulation of more wealth as the only means to get satisfaction.”(Money, Method, and the Market Process, p.22) 1 ) Here the “means” is an action, not a state of affairs, not an object, not a perceptual presence. Is this just a misleading use of Eng…

Holding off for the moment on the question of how actions can be perceptually present, I’ll instead ask why there are only two categories in the theory. For example, why isn’t it three categories: means, actions, and ends? Since we’re remaining agnostic about any real world, if I’m imagining X (t…

AJ: “Holding off for the moment on the question of how actions can be perceptually present, I’ll instead ask why there are only two categories in the theory. For example, why isn’t it three categories: means, actions, and ends?” I’m resolving the concept of action into two essential notions. Actio…

The way you’ve defined it, everything - all of human experience - is action. Pleasure and pain are action. All sensations perceived are action. All sensations not perceived are action. Again, why use the original word if it’s going to bear no resemblance whatsoever to its usual meaning? So again,…

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