[cross-posted at BHL]
In honour of May Day, the website of the Center for a Stateless Society has just undergone a massive and beautiful redesign.
Here’s how the site looked when C4SS first launched in 2006.
Here’s how it looked last month.
And here’s the C4SS website today. Shiny!
The chief architect of the new site redesign is William Gillis, to whom shukrani sana.
If anyone feels moved to help C4SS out with donations, translations, or our new Into Libraries program, don’t be shy!
There’s been a debate on the non-aggression principle going on for a while at BHL and related sites; I finally weighed in today with Eudaimonism and Non-Aggression.
I also announced the mailing of iRad #2 with Celebrate the iRadvent.
The 2013 meeting of the Alabama Philosophical Society will be October 11-12 in Pensacola. Paper submission deadline: August 2. Details here.
It’s often been speculated that Paul-Émile de Puydt’s 1860 essay Panarchy might have been influenced by his fellow Belgian Gustave de Molinari’s similar ideas about competitive security services in his 1849 works The Production of Security and Soirées on the Rue Saint-Lazare.
Well, I don’t have new light on that question, exactly, but I have discovered that De Puydt’s essay received a highly favourable review in a journal edited by Molinari. I’ve just translated and posted the review, here.
Molinari Society update: the session on Gary’s book will be held in the Yorkshire room.
I will not here discuss the great controversy about small and large farms. [Note: and then he goes on to discuss it. – RTL] I know it has been maintained that a large farm produces more proportionally, than several small farms of the same extent;
because the large proprietor has the command of capital and processes which are not within the reach of the small proprietors; but I am not sure whether it might not be answered, that the petty occupants, in the absence of monied capital, expend on the parcels of which they are the proprietors an amount of activity and personal energy which could not be obtained from a hired labourer; that all labouring thus for themselves, and under the influence of a fruitful selfishness, may, by the force of zeal and industry, succeed in obtaining from the lands as much, if not more, than a single proprietor, compelled to hire the labour of others, could procure … The experience of modern times has shown what a difference in value there is between the work of the free labourer and the slave; but we do not yet know how much the labour of the cultivating proprietor is better than that of the hired labourer.
— Gustave de Beaumont, Ireland: Social, Political, and Religious, vol. 2 (1842)