June, 2012 // Posts published in June, 2012
Measuring Value and Exchange
“The basis of modern economics is the cognition that it is precisely the disparity in the value attached to the objects exchanged that results in their being exchanged. People buy and sell only because they appraise the things given up less than those received. Thus the notion of a measurement of value is vain. An ...
We Know You Know About Our Well-Known ‘Secret’ Drone Wars
Pro-Publica summarizes how absurd the Obama administration is being on its secret drone wars they keep telling everybody about: Over the past year, the American Civil Liberties Union and reporters at The New York Times have filed several requests under the Freedom of Information Act seeking information about the CIA’s drone program and the legal ...
‘Knowing’ That Preventive War on Iran is Counterproductive
Via Micah Zenko, this short excerpt from New York Times reporter David Sanger’s new book, Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power: And the core of the American argument [to Israel] was simple: attack Iran, and you set the program back a few years, but you solve nothing. “We wanted to ...
DEA Kills Another Honduran
Another Honduran was killed this weekend by US Drug Enforcement Agents, according to the New York Times. The DEA claims the man who was killed was a suspected drug dealer and reached for his gun, making the DEA’s shots “self-defense.” No independent observers were there to witness it, so what actually happened is really unknowable. Just last ...
Gitta on Mises and Music
Gitta Serény, Mises’ stepdaughter, who recently passed, is mentioned in several places in Jörg Guido Hülsmann’s biography of Mises. At one point, for a while, Mises and his wife were desperate to know whether Gitta escaped from Nazi-occupied France. Here Hülsmann discusses Gitta’s memory of Mises’ love for music. Mises did not share the Viennese acceptance ...
Compelling Footage from Highland Utah
Make note of several key aspects in this video:1) Near stationary movement2) Lack of sound3) Trained military eyewitness4) Experience in (of all things) manufacturing of flares.
Gitta Serény (1921-2012)
Mises’s step-daughter Gitta Serény, the well-known author, has died at age 91. Here are details from the Guardian and the NYT.
Antiwar.com Newsletter | June 24, 2012
Antiwar.com Newsletter | June 24, 2012 IN THIS ISSUE What’s new Top news Opinion and analysis Events This week’s top news: Citing Potential ‘War Crimes’ UN Official Questions Legality of Drone War: UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions has called on the Obama administration to justify the legal grounds of the drone ...
Schulak and Unterköfler Reviewed in JHET
Good news! The Austrian School of Economics: A History of Its Ideas, Ambassadors, and Institutions by Eugen-Maria Schulak and Herbert Unterköfler has been reviewed for Cambridge’s Journal of the History of Economic Thought.
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