At the beginning of this week a spectacle of simply stunning hypocrisy took place on Bloomberg television. In a segment titled ‘Paul v. Paul’, 2012 GOP candidate Ron Paul was matched against Keynesian economist Paul Krugman. If you have not seen this exchange, you should immediately do so now. Whilst this was most certainly...
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Libertarian Ideas
Practical action is needed, but action must stem from ideas. If we don’t have the ideas we cannot succeed. So what is libertarianism? What are the challenges and what are the benefits?
Thoughts on Paul vs Krugman
Video: Intellectual Property: a dilemma for Libertarians
Tom Burroughes walks us through the libertarian, and some wider, arguments for and against the institution of Intellectual Property, including copyright, patents, trademarks design rights and secrets. For anyone without means to enjoy the video, Tom has provided the following summary: Libertarians place great importance on the institution of private property; private property is...
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Barry Goldwater: Champion of the Constitution
Barry M Goldwater: a name that should reverberate in the hearts and minds of liberty-lovers the world over. The self-styled ‘Mr Conservative’, Goldwater was a five term Senator from the South-western state of Arizona, who whilst perhaps most famously went down to a crushing Presidential election defeat to Lyndon Baines Johnson in 1964, paved...
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Can I please borrow your toothbrush?
Yesterday, the Rob Waller’s twitter experiments pushed the announcement of Tom Borroughs talk on the Intellectual Property dilemma into the twitterverse. Marmaduke Dando, singer and distant associate of this parish tweeted back: @RobDWaller @LibertarianHome Accept property in general is a construct, and there will be no dilemma over intellectual property — Marmaduke Dando (@marmadukedando)...
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In Defence of Drunken Philosophising
I have some sympathy with what James Rigby wrote the other day under the title ‘Smith, Hayek, Ron Paul and Things That Actually Matter‘. James is correct to call us to action. He is right that hanging around pubs discussing philosophy is not in itself enough. He is right to focus our attention on...
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Daniel B. Klein’s think tank tour
The other day I came across an event “Allegory and Political Economy” at the IEA. Usually I try to post details of events one or two weeks ahead of the date, but I paused before posting this one because, to be frank, I wasn’t sure what on earth it’s about. To be honest, I...
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The Challenges of the Abortion Debate
I am of the view that perhaps the greatest challenge a libertarian will face in defining their politics is when faced with the argument on abortion. A debate that has raged on for literally decades, it is perhaps one of the more troubling subjects with which some libertarians will struggle to get to grips....
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Is Libertarianism Compatible With a Welfare State?
The short answer to this question is “No”. The long answer to this question – in summary – is “it depends”. It depends on the circumstances in which a welfare state exists, the aims of the welfare state and the success in achieving those aims. Most who are familiar with libertarianism will likely be...
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How many do they think they are?
New commenter Laogai has penned an excellent comment which is worthy of greater attention. In one post he deftly identifies an interesting contradiction in the minds of left wing commentators and follows by neatly summing up the libertarian approach to welfare. Laogai writes: Charity for the poor can be implemented in at least two...
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The Left are waking up to the Libertarian threat
With the rise of Ron Paul the Left are beginning to wake up to the threat Libertarianism poses them. Why? Because we are more ‘liberal’ than them. And, importantly, we have a far stronger economic argument. This fear is personified in the childish attacks of George Mombiot. And now Jeffrey Sachs… Yeah, I don’t...
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