It's my impression that in the last 5-10 years, there has been a striking movement towards the anti-IP camp among libertarians and Austrians. This is a result of the mounting everyday evidence of injustice resulting from the digital age magnifying the baleful effects of IP that have always existed; and the mounting scholarship, from a pro-property right […]
As readers of this blog know, in an astounding feat of oblivious irony, Time magazine has chosen the man who very likely just broke the world as "Person of the Year". In my last post, I commented on the propaganda aspects of the choice. In this article, I would like to address the woeful economic content of Time's corresponding hagiographic pi […]
To be filed under the "It's About Time" department: Those who follow the Mises Economics Blog via RSS feed reader may be pleased to learn that they now have the option to follow comments for a specific blog post via their feed reader. Next to the comment count at the bottom of this and every comment-enabled entry is an RSS icon that links to i […]
One thing I like to do around the office is bamboozle colleagues with faux-knowledge of the newest technologies. Stephan Kinsella taught me this: he has been intimidating me for years with this tactic. Throw around a few buzz words and scrappy tech talk. Then when the colleague sheepishly asks what I'm talking about, the moment is perfect: give a look l […]