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Mises Daily
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There is a fundamental fact about the world that has profound implications for the supply of natural resources and for the relationship between production and economic activity on the one side and man’s environment on the other. This is the fact that the entire earth consists of solidly packed chemical elements. There is not a single cubic
Mises Daily
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Thomas Piketty, a neo-Marxist French professor, has written a near-700-page book, published by Harvard University Press. His book is titled Capital in the Twenty-First Century, in honor of Karl Marx’s nineteenth century Das Capital . It has been greeted with fervent applause from the left-wing intellectual establishment and has been on The New
Mises Wire
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In his New York Times column of June 3, Joseph Nocera asks: who among our better novelists has put business front and center? . . . Tom Wolfe comes to mind, of course; his first novel, “Bonfire of the Vanities,” tackled Wall Street in the 1980’s, while “A Man in Full,” his second novel, had real estate as its backdrop. Surely, though, there must
Mises Wire
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Paul Krugman is at it again. In today’s New York Times , in his official capacity as a professional bleeding heart “liberal,” he once again revels in his role of flagellating the pursuit of happiness with the whip of human misery. Specifically, he denounces the prospect of the impending Senate vote to abolish the estate tax, on the grounds that
Mises Wire
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Earlier today I would not have believed it possible that I would write something in praise of an Op-Ed piece in The New York Times. But Nicolas D. Kristof has written an article that demonstrates some serious understanding of a highly charged subject and has had the courage to express it in his column. The title of his article conveys its nature.
Mises Wire
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In a manner reminiscent of witch doctors urging primitive people to sacrifice their sheep and goats in order to mollify the wrath of the gods, today’s environmentalists and their shills in the media and academe repeatedly urge the people of the United States and the rest of the modern world to sacrifice their use of energy and their standard of
Mises Wire
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An individual kills someone—for money, out of jealousy, as an act of revenge, or because he doesn’t like his victim’s looks. A chorus of left-”liberals” rushes in to excuse his act, especially if he is poor. He is not responsible, they say. The real criminal is “Society,” for having allowed him to live in the conditions that led him to kill.
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Here’s a message from an environmentalist who hides under the name “Tokyo Tom.” He says it comes “off of the web page of the world-renowned Wood`s Hole Oceanographic Institute”: [W]orld leaders may be planning for climate scenarios of global warming that are opposite to what might actually occur. It is important to clarify that we are not