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(Austrian) Economics

The Libertarian Standard

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché April 8, 2010 @ 9:47 am (Austrian) Economics

There’s a new website and group blog in town, by a great group of radical Austro-Libertarians, including yours truly. It’s The Libertarian Standard. I’ve been pre-occupied with admin work for the site the past couple weeks, getting it set up and looking nice, but I’ll be getting around to blogging relatively soon. I’ll probably be [...]

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Liberty, Virtue, and the Autobot Way

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché December 8, 2009 @ 6:02 pm (Austrian) Economics

That was to be the subtitle for my chapter in Open Court‘s recent addition to their Popular Culture and Philosophy series, Transformers and Philosophy: More Than Meets the Mind. Alas, no subtitles made it into the book. I have received official permission to provide a pdf copy of my chapter, “Freedom Is the Right of [...]

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Stackpole, Doctorow, and Intellectual Property

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché October 26, 2009 @ 12:11 pm (Austrian) Economics

Cory Doctorow recently announced an experiment to prove that giving away free ebooks works. Michael Stackpole responded with a deconstruction of Cory’s experiment. He makes a number of good points about the experiment, though I think he comes off unnecessarily harsh on Cory personally. And one gets the impression that he feels threatened by the [...]

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My dissertation is completed, approved and now online

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché January 21, 2009 @ 2:01 pm (Austrian) Economics

Well, I finally finished my dissertation and now it’s available online for anyone to read. I actually defended it on December 2nd. My committee approved it under the condition that I make some revisions, which is not an unusual occurrence. They mainly wanted me to flesh out and clarify some things in chapters five and [...]

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John C. Wright’s Austrian Anaylsis of the Financial Crisis

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché September 27, 2008 @ 1:34 pm (Austrian) Economics

At least one science fiction author has a pretty sound grasp of economic theory and history, and of the current financial crisis. Ludwig von Mises over half a century ago proved, beyond a shadow of doubt, that a little intervention in one sector of the economy creates an incentive for a lot of intervention in [...]

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“The most stupid fool is better off than those who think they are wise when they are not.”

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché January 31, 2008 @ 11:55 pm (Austrian) Economics

I added a new quote to the Great Quotes on the left sidebar. I hope it is not too pretentious of me, as it is one of my own, albeit but a modification of a great Rothbard quote on ignorance of economics. Here they are for comparison: “It is no crime to be ignorant of [...]

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Arthur C. Clarke must never have read Mises and Rothbard…

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché January 15, 2008 @ 9:20 pm (Austrian) Economics

…because according to this quote cited by Gregory Benford in his happy-birthday letter in Locus Magazine (January 2008), he claims that “there are some general laws governing scientific extrapolation, as there are not (pace Marx) in the case of politics and economics.” Well, far be it from me to disagree that Marx was wrong about [...]

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Ron Paul Discusses Ayn Rand and Alan Greenspan

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché December 19, 2007 @ 7:18 pm (Austrian) Economics
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Austrian Scholars Conference 2006

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché March 21, 2006 @ 2:11 pm (Austrian) Economics

I haven’t been posting much (all right, not at all) lately as I’ve been studying for my comprehensive exams. I recently attended the ASC at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama. I presented a paper entitled “On Praxeology and the Question of Aristotelian Apriorism.” A revised version of this paper can be found on my [...]

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Democracy, Spontaneous Order, and the Democratic Peace Thesis

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché December 7, 2005 @ 3:12 pm (Austrian) Economics

Gus diZerega over at Liberty & Power has made a couple of posts arguing not only in favor on the democratic peace thesis (about which I have posted before; see here) but also, and far more incredibly, that democracies are spontaneous orders. See his posts here and here. I commented on the latter, offering a [...]

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