By DCT | January 14, 2010
By Steve Horwitz: Posted on the Coordination Problem Blog Site.
This is from a 1934 Cobden Memorial lecture of Gustav Cassel’s entitled “From Protectionism through Planned Economy to Dictatorship”:
Planned economy will always tend to develop into Dictatorship…[because] experience has shown that representative bodies are unable to fulfill all the multitudinous functions connected with economic leadership without [...]
By DCT | December 22, 2009
The Senate Democrats declare a super-majority of senators will be needed to overrule any regulation imposed by the Death Panels
Posted by Erick Erickson (Profile) Monday, December 21st at 10:15PM EST at Redstate.com
If ever the people of the United States rise up and fight over passage of Obamacare, Harry Reid must be remembered as the [...]
By DCT | October 15, 2009
The citizen is no longer the judge of the dangers to which the law desires him to expose himself; and when the prince says to him: ‘It is expedient for the State that you should die,’ he ought to die, because it is only on that condition that he has been living in security up [...]
By DCT | October 12, 2009
From the twelfth to the eighteenth century governmental authority grew continuously. The process was understood by all who saw it happening; it stirred them to incessant protest and violent reaction. In later times its growth has continued at an accelerated pace….And now we no longer understand the process, we no longer protest, we [...]
Also posted in Socialism | Tagged Bertrand de Jouvenel, Founding Fathers, Freedom In Chains, George Washington, James Bovard, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Adams, Lord Acton, The Social Contract, Thomas Hobbes, Thomas Jefferson, Tyranny, U. S. Constitution |
By DCT | September 2, 2009
Mises Daily by Robert Montgomery | Posted on 9/2/2009 12:00:00 AM
When the news of young America’s novel design for living in freedom reached it, the Old World shook its head with profound skepticism. It would never work, they said. The idea was too “revolutionary,” too “progressive,” too “radical,” and certainly too “liberal.” The prevailing [...]
The road to the restoration of liberty is going to be long and fraught with ups and downs. Many don’t even know that our liberties are being usurped and that statism has arrived. Some don’t want to know because they are our “weaker brethren,” and they prefer to just “believe” everything [...]
The Fallacy of Relative Evil
Posted on Mises Blog, April 23, 2009 10:00 AM by Jeffrey Tucker
I finally saw Missing, a 1982 film about political violence in Chile, staring Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek. It won an Oscar, was nominated for many more, and won 8 other awards at various film festivals.
It has to be one [...]
Posted in Tyranny | Tagged Chile, Communists, General Pinochet, Jack Lemmon, Jeffrey Tucker, Latin America, Mises Institute, Missing, Sissy Spacek, Tyranny, Wikipedia |
GOVERNMENT BIAS
By Sheldon Richman • Published: 17 April 2009 on the Foundation For Economic Education Website.
Sheldon Richman is the editor of The Freeman and “In brief.” He is a contributor to The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics (“Fascism”).
Anyone discussing social and economic problems with a hardcore free-market advocate hears a string of indictments against the [...]
Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut Attorney General is nailed in this interview with Glenn Beck on his abuse of power in going after the AIG bonuses. He admits that there has been no law broken, but, and this is the outrageous part, he says that “they (the AIG executives who got the bonuses) were undeserving [...]
Posted by Dave Prychitko
Considering both economic theory and the historical record, it is reasonable to believe that if a society tries to abolish the market economy it will find that it abolishes the wealth-generation and long-run growth that only a market system can provide, and, on top of that, it will become more undesirably statist [...]
