Mr Ptak and I will be coauthoring on a blog. The site is up but neither of us has posted anything yet, since it's only been in existence for a few hours. It...
Well I just got engaged! Can't believe it, just last year I was beginning to think I'd never meet someone. I'm already 25 and I thought it was all over. After...
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Dec 10, 2005 11:03 am
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This message is about Human beings, Democracy, UNHCR, Refugees, The Iraqis, Islam, Kurds, Human rights, Respect, Money, Donations, Angelina Jolie, Pavarotti,...
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Dec 20, 2005 8:00 am
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Molinarians, An announcement about the Molinari Institute's new magazine has just gone up: http://praxeology.net/unblog01-06.htm#15 Submissions welcome! ...
Just thought I should pass on my knowledge to all you guys (and gals) on here. I know just like heaps of other men I am pretty shy when it comes to going up to...
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Jan 14, 2006 2:41 pm
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Tomorrow is the anniversary of Spooner's birth! I have a short piece on Spooner on my website: http://classicalliberalism.blogspot.com/ if you aren't...
I'm sure most everyone here has seen this, but for those who haven't, here 'tis. Students for a Democratic Society Form National Organization (January 16,...
It's worth noting that the organizers are saying that "the anti-statist right and libertarians are welcome, indeed necessary, to a revived SDS." See: ...
To give a bit of an update, I joined. They're growing fast. The ability of the original organizers to handle things is being taxed. ... Yahoo! Photos Got...
U$ury by any other name is still the same as it ever was: "When money is lent on a contract to receive not only the principal sum again, but also an increase...
... Nonsense. That is a totally unnecessary, obfuscatory and ineffective extension of the meaning of usury. There are perfectly good and effective ways to...
... There are those who would abolish all trade, insisting that all distribution of property be by gift. (Besotted readers of Mauss, for instance.) A loan...
Usury is never fair, honest, necessary or even possible unless it is arbitrary, fraudulent, corrupt, backed up by lawyers, guns and paper "money", or, in a...
Well, it's nice to play the "assertion game," but what about REASONS and EXAMPLES and such? ... "Never" is hard to prove. But the phenomenon of "interest" does...
Bentham wrote a defense of usury: http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/bentham/usury. I've not read it, but Rothbard (no Bentham fan) thought it...
I don't think the term "usury" is a valid one, for the following reasons: First of all, it is actually a legal term, and is based on the premise that the state...
If you are saying that apples grow on tractors, then I find that hard to believe. David Anderson t-w-virkkala <virkkala@...> wrote: Well, it's nice to...
It works for me, but try this: http://phare.univ-paris1.fr/textes/Bentham/Usury/usury.html . It's on several sites, so if this doesn't work Google: bentham...
Prior to the advent of Christianity the Hebrews were prohibited from practicing usury among themselves, but usury was allowed to be practiced against an enemy,...
Oops! I should have said I've already read the book, as well as everything else that I could find on the subject, which is why I paraphrased George Orwell's...
What's all the fuss about usury? Assuming laissez faire, if two people agree to a loan contract that includes interest, what's the problem? On the other hand,...
Please cite scripture, here. I am quite aware that Hebrews were not allowed to practice loaning at interest within their own community. But the rationale for...
I should mention, in this context . . . ... . . . that people usually possess a more nuanced morality than indicated here. Herbert Spencer distinguished...
Do tractors grow on apple trees? Of course not. So where do tractors come from? As Aristotle pointed out, money is sterile and does not reproduce itself, and...
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