Monthly Archives: May 2012
IEA Occasional Lecture: Crony Capitalism vs. Entrepreneurial Capitalism
President of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Fred L Smith Jnr, will be delivering a talk for the IEA at 2 Lord North Street, London, SW1. He will passionately suggest “that an alliance of entrepreneurial capitalists and free market intellectuals is essential if liberty is to survive”. Quite so. The talk occurs on 12 July...
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Self-interest in campaigning
I have a new found respect for Gregg’s the baker. Their Save our Savouries campaign including an online and counter-top petition was obviously self-interested and yet it’s worked. They got exactly what they wanted from the watering down of the Pasty Tax and achieved popular support and favourable media coverage. What I like about...
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On geographical self-sorting by ideology – Brian Micklethwait
ACTA protest plans
I am gathering expressions of interest in attending, and leafletting, the ACTA demo on 9th June. The intention will be to reach out to other protestors as much as members of the public. Both audiences will not have normally dealt with or heard from Libertarians. It will be an opportunity to meet and socialise...
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Breckenridge Brewery Versus Colorado – Diana Hseih
Objectivist rationale for drug legalisation
Yaron Brook answers a question about drug legalisation. In an earlier video from the ASI in London he talks at some length about selfishness and he uses drug abuse as a definitive example of the difference between rational self interest and self-destructive behaviours. This illustrates a subtlety that is common to a lot of...
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We believe that copyright works best by consent - former Green Party activist Jim Killock
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