Interesting article: Are Co-ops the Answer? (CHT Dan Clore.)
Archive | May, 2012
The Logick of Kings
A delightful passage from the always charming Joseph Addison.
Banana Republican
Read the Wikipedia page on the United Fruit Company, with particular attention to the sections titled “History in Central America” and “Banana massacre.”
Now read this article about the United Fruit Company on Reason.com. (CHT Sheldon.)
You may notice a certain … incompleteness in the latter’s account.
Perpetuating War
In honour of Memorial Day:
(CHT Sheldon.)
Molinari on Mutualism
Shawn Wilbur has translated an excerpt from Molinari’s The Red Clubs During the Siege of Paris, critiquing the mutualists. But I fear this conflict between the heir of Bastiat and the heirs of Proudhon sheds no more light than that between the originals.
Soirées Online
A preliminary draft of Liberty Fund’s new translation of Molinari’s 1849 Soirées on the Rue Saint-Lazare – a series of dialogues between a libertarian (representing the author’s viewpoint), a conservative, and a state-socialist – is now online.