Category: Thoughts

[C]hildren talk of beliefs.  Adults talk of institutions. Children talk of “Want and Belief”  Adults of “Expectations and Habits”. The mind plans with what it has available.  We need develop means of creating habits that produce expectations. People then plan with those expectations – because that is what is available to them.As far as I…

[I] am critical of every one of the enlightenment groups for their stupidity. So I am not interested in racism or anti-semitism so much as self-improvement. I argue only against the accidental application of jewish in-group ethics and argument structure as pseudoscience in an era where our western extant means of logic and argument at…

Guest Post by Michael Phillip [L]ocke’s argument starts with the notion that we own ourselves. It does not rest on us being the creation of our own labour, but a notion of self-ownership. By “mixing our labour” with things acquired from nature we “create” property by a process of extension of our self-ownership. There are…

Guest Post by Michael Phillip I don’t think “reverse racism” is a useful or even entirely coherent concept, and I don’t think thought-experiments are a particularly helpful way to think about racism in the first place: in my view, something about the subject demands an “ecological” or “in vivo” rather than thought-experimental approach. In other…

[A] lot of people hate white people. I have been discriminated against by Jews, Asians and Blacks in particular. But I have a lot of options within my tribe. So it’s an outlier condition. But it begs the question: Why don’t others have so many options within their tribes? Why isn’t opportunity in white organizations…

[P]eter Boettke posted an article by Paul Krugman yesterday which referred to the divisions in economics – with derision. And it’s been bothering me all night: Progressives, libertarians, and conservatives demonstrate an inter-temporal division of reproductive labor in their moral biases and cognitive biases. So why wouldn’t economists follow the same moral, inter-temporal division of labor?…

[T]he only moral society is one in which property, morality and law are synonyms. (i) PROPERTY : that which we demonstrate. (ii) MORALITY: that which we require. (iii) LAW: that which we promise.

[W]e Don’t Need To Further Research Property – it’s Settled Science. 1) Property that we consider ours, is that which we bear costs to obtain or bear costs if we lose. 2) Property that is necessary within a cooperative kinship group is determined by that which is necessary to prevent free-riding. 3) Property that we…

CHEAPER FOR THE STRONG TO GIVE PEOPLE PROPERTY RIGHTS [P]roperty exists prior to codification in a constitution. So does promise, prior to the institution of contract. A constitution is merely an agreement for reciprocal insurance of the terms of property and contract. It so happens that allocation of property rights determines the incentives possible, and…

[W]hile Propertarianism does provide the missing logic of cooperation that Mises promised us, and that the prohibition of free riding is the single cooperative problem to be overcome, that the central proposition of Propertarianism is the western struggle to testify truthfully to one’s jury, and that trust is the result of that struggle, and economic…

PROPERTARIANISM: THE TRANSACTION COST THEORY OF GOVERNMENT(second draft) (closer) [H]istory says only that the development of a state – a monopoly bureaucracy – transfers high local transaction costs without central rents, to state rents and low transaction cost. Libertarians nearly universally ignore the evidence of universal transaction costs and free riding at the local level.…

–“You don’t have a right to rights. Pay full price, like everyone else.”–  Eli Harman –“The entrance fee to the land of Liberty is your contractual obligation to risk life, limb and property to obtain and defend it. Free riders have permission only – not Liberty. Only fee paying members have existential rights.”– Curt Doolittle…

William L. Benge just pointed out to me that “Dennett and Hawkins” have pretty much demonstrated the end of the Cathedral’s fallacy, and have moved beyond it. I think if you watch Hawkin’s talk, then Haidt’s talk on moral blindness, then my talk on The Inter-temporal Division of Reproductive Labor. Then you begin to see…

[C]hildren talk of beliefs. Adults talk of institutions. Children talk of “Want and Belief” Adults of “Expectations and Habits”. The mind plans with what it has available. We need develop means of creating habits that produce expectations. People then plan with those expectations – because that is what is available to them.As far as I know only property,…

[I] am critical of every one of the enlightenment groups for their stupidity. So I am not interested in racism or anti-semitism so much as self-improvement. I argue only against the accidental application of jewish in-group ethics and argument structure as pseudoscience in an era where our western extant means of logic and argument at…

[M]y objective is the achievement of liberty. But there are very few means of achieving it. For all intents and purposes, classes are genetic in origin: reproductive desirability, intelligence, impulsivity, aggression determine your class as much as do your parents norms. As a rule of thumb, the races act as political blocks (kinship) and they…

[T]he manner of theft is immaterial. Either the court provides a means of remedy for a theft, or we are free to use violence to obtain remedy for the theft. The court does not grant what we may do. It holds provision only over those conflicts which it agrees to resolve via property rights. See…

Guest Post by Michael Phillip [L]ocke’s argument starts with the notion that we own ourselves. It does not rest on us being the creation of our own labour, but a notion of self-ownership. By “mixing our labour” with things acquired from nature we “create” property by a process of extension of our self-ownership. There are…

Guest Post by Michael Phillip I don’t think “reverse racism” is a useful or even entirely coherent concept, and I don’t think thought-experiments are a particularly helpful way to think about racism in the first place: in my view, something about the subject demands an “ecological” or “in vivo” rather than thought-experimental approach. In other…

[A] lot of people hate white people. I have been discriminated against by Jews, Asians and Blacks in particular. But I have a lot of options within my tribe. So it’s an outlier condition. But it begs the question: Why don’t others have so many options within their tribes? Why isn’t opportunity in white organizations…

[P]eter Boettke posted an article by Paul Krugman yesterday which referred to the divisions in economics – with derision. And it’s been bothering me all night: Progressives, libertarians, and conservatives demonstrate an inter-temporal division of reproductive labor in their moral biases and cognitive biases. So why wouldn’t economists follow the same moral, inter-temporal division of labor?…

[T]he only moral society is one in which property, morality and law are synonyms. (i) PROPERTY : that which we demonstrate. (ii) MORALITY: that which we require. (iii) LAW: that which we promise.

(sketch)[I] have been working on this idea, and I finally gotten close to expressing it tangibly as measurement.  The examples I give are the golden(positive) vs the silver rule(negative),  property(positive) vs property rights(negative).  And I want to construct a general rule for requiring both positive(contextual precision) and negative(general rule).  Because I feel its necessary to…

[W]e Don’t Need To Further Research Property – it’s Settled Science. 1) Property that we consider ours, is that which we bear costs to obtain or bear costs if we lose. 2) Property that is necessary within a cooperative kinship group is determined by that which is necessary to prevent free-riding. 3) Property that we…