Category Archives: economics

what, more links?

Hm, the first two links here have been lying around for five years; guess I ought to shove them out. Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry on restructuring the banks “Zomia”, a large region in Asia that was effectively stateless until recently James Leroy … Continue reading

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I’m just sayin’

A free market would not say to the poor, “It’s cute that you want to earn money by providing a service, but first we need you to save up for a license.”

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amazing restraint

Roderick Long defines right-conflationism as defending existing economic structures as if they were outcomes of a genuinely free market (what Kevin Carson calls vulgar libertarianism), and left-conflationism as using those outcomes to attack the concept of free markets. I hope … Continue reading

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the strawman market

One often hears: [Libertarianism] can only work if all the conditions of a free market economy are present … things like anyone being able to easily enter any market segment, all consumers having near-perfect knowledge of what they are purchasing, … Continue reading

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Whip Conflation Now

Roderick Long: Corporations versus the Market; or, Whip Conflation Now. Read it.

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a perverse incentive in customer service

Awhile ago I worked out that, if you want to watch a different disc every evening using Netflix, your quota (the number of discs you have out at a time) needs to be at least five: three for the mail … Continue reading

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where’s my fix?

For two or three years I was never without a supply of navel oranges, because the Australian (or before that Chilean) crop came in just as the California crop was ending; but the antipodean goodies have not (yet) shown up … Continue reading

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