All Posts Tagged With: "hoarding"

Capital Letters, March 2010

Is Intellectual Property Real Property? I feel I must respond to Kevin Carson’s article “How ‘Intellectual Property’ Impedes Competition” (The Freeman, October 2009). In his article Mr. Carson suggests that intellectual property is different than real property in that real property comes into existence in limited supply. I do not believe this to be true [...]

23Feb2010 | mnolan | 2 comments | Continued

The Great French Inflation

Governments have an insatiable appetite for the wealth of their subjects. When governments find it impossible to continue raising taxes or borrowing funds, they have invariably turned to printing paper money to finance their growing expenditures. The resulting inflations have often undermined the social fabric, ruined the economy, and sometimes brought revolution and tyranny in [...]

1Jul2007 | Richard M. Ebeling | 0 comments | Continued

Conservation and Speculation

I often ask my students, “How many of you are in favor of conservation?” Except for those who are asleep, every hand goes up. I then ask, “How many of you are in favor of speculators?” and almost no one raises his hand. The students see conservation as a noble activity that prevents people from [...]

1Aug1999 | Dwight R. Lee | 0 comments | Continued

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