individualism for the masses

BK Marcus is an amateur political economist with no formal education in the subject.

He works from Charlottesville, Virginia, as an editorial consultant for the Ludwig von Mises Institute.

He is no longer a house husband, nor a faculty spouse, but he is still a dilettante, and a layabout, at least in spirit.

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"It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a 'dismal science.' But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance."

Murray Rothbard

Ludwig von Mises: "Capital does not reproduce itself." - Socialism

Although air pollution should be a tort subject to strict liability, it should be emphasized that statements like "everyone has the right to clean air" are senseless.

Murray N. Rothbard


Benjamin Tucker Marcus
April 10, 2008

Best of ...

lowercase liberty

[2004] [2005] [2006] [2007] [2008]

July, 2004 [archive]
Aren't I worth saving?
August [archive]
On Atheism, Agnosticism, and Faith
lefties
September [archive]
complementary material (re Gilligan)
3rd-world, uneducated, & primitive (ditto)
defense contractors (re Straw Men)
The Samsara Fallacy
essential to national security
the thing most feared
Radio Free Austria
labels
more on labels
everything bad that begins with A
October [archive]
the C-word
grammatical inversion
look for the union label
economic illiteracy
November [archive]
signals to myself
signal interference
conspiracy theories
liberal anarchism
That Girl!
rising costs
Will the real fascists please stand up?
Thanksgiving & Private Property
The Ministry of Truth
December [archive]
where to begin? [to learn economics]
Let's put the X back in Xmas!

January, 2005 [archive]
Ivan Illich & Deschooling
Murray N. Rothbard, R.I.P.
dreams can be deceiving (re MLK2)
Monogamy vs. Integrity
the principal principle of principles
February [archive]
In Defense of Referencing Hitler
cigarette money
March [archive]
unemployed former philosophy major
fish-n-chips (w/ fries)
April [archive]
Blanco! Bicho! (Spanish curses from childhood)
I like traffic lights
assertions & assumptions, arguments & fallacies
May [archive]
implied consent revisited
June [archive]
wealth
value (Austrian value theory)
what my schooling never learned me
der Fledermaus Mann fängt an (review of Batman Begins)
We are all Bismarckians now.
July [archive]
on goldbugs and free-market money
anarchist shadow holiday (July 4th)
aid kills (Live 8)
economic psychologism
Does Gary North want to stone homosexuals?
there are rights and then there are rights
August [archive]
counterfactuals
September [archive]
Pocket Tanks and value theory
why hedge?
paleoliberalism (Anthony Gregory)
circularity and regression
October [archive]
unbroken windows
fiat metal
persuasion & envy
November [archive]
and don't you forget it! (pledge of allegiance)
1000 points of blight (charity)
FSIM
whiskey: the patriotic spirit
December [archive]
a buck is a buck is a buck
right behind (biblical literalism and lesbian pornography)
What ever happened to sexy stews? (redone here)

January, 2006 [archive]
politics isn't pretty
maximize the contradictions [libertarian Maoism]
C is for ...
narrow spectra ["serving" "our" "country"]
February [archive]
If I only had a ...
Greenspan's gift to you
homesteading the ephemeral [owning holes in the snow]
pro-choice
March [archive]
propertarian-nitpicking
April [archive]
babble-on-five [science fiction and the destructivist fallacy]
May [archive]
bombcaps of the world unite
ancap "logo"
just say maybe to drugs
sivilization
praise through faint damnation ["this is your brain on drugs"]
"...but the free market isn't free!"
little-red-schoolmates
June [archive]
Genesis 3:16
I, extremist
beyond non-aggression ["fair trade"]
July [archive]
Superman as Capital(ist) Good
incorrectables
August [archive]
inflammatory [Walter Williams on The "Good" War]
September [archive]
fighting for the truth
October [archive]
The Swedish Central Bank Prize in Economics [the so-called Nobel]
November [archive]
why not smell a rat? [neoliberal gullibility]
the post-TV generation
December [archive]
phobia
retrotech
Pinochet
lying to the state [the ethics of non-aggression]

January, 2007 [archive]
Le Pen versus Joan of Arc
what were you taught? (Nazis and capitalism)
bordering on the naive (reply to troll)
you've tried all the rest …
February [archive]
Dr Frasier Crane on the Constitutionality of Slavery
March [archive]
The 3 Austrian Pigs (And Their Different Rates of Time Preference)
Rothbardian tastes
Goldilocks and the 3 Sovereign Clients of Ursa Mutual
on writing well
April [archive]

women are from mars, men are from venus (on the libertarian "gender gap")
May [archive]
dont' blame the corn god (ethanol)
printing vs writing
that 1 teacher
June [archive]
compared to what? (on schooling)
July [archive]
inconvenient history
August [archive]
the untimely death of Lev Davidovich Bronstein
September [archive]
Persian revisionism
October [archive]
liberty's debt to celibacy
fetishizing the means
November [archive]
greed
December [archive]
Rooting for Old Man Potter

January, 2008 [archive]


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