LvMI Forum Study Lists

January 25, 2010 6:36 PM by J. Grayson Lilburne

Here are some great study lists compiled by LvMI Forum members:

• Praxeology Reading List by Inquisitor.
• History Reading List by Hayekianxyz.
• Libertarian Political Philosophy Reading List by Inquisitor.

And Laughing Man has compiled some great materials lists concerning the history of thought, specifically on...

• Marxism
• The French Industrialists
• Progressivism (the Teddy Roosevelt kind, not the Democracy Now! kind)
• The French Liberal School

Enjoy!

Law, Gambling, and Other Topics on the LvMI Forum

January 20, 2010 5:08 PM by J. Grayson Lilburne

Here are some interesting recent topics in the Forum:

• "What Law Is", started by ClaytonB.
• "Who Should Win the Ignoble Prize for Economics?", started by Robert Brager.
• "The Stock Market and Gambling", started by ViennaSausage.
• "Types of Malinvestment", started by tir38.

Massachusetts and Obamacare

January 20, 2010 12:18 AM by J. Grayson Lilburne

The Senate seat formerly occupied by Ted Kennedy, a crusader for health care interventionism, has just been won by an opponent of President Obama's wildly interventionist health care plan, in an election in which the Senate Democrats' ability to override a filibuster was on the line, in the ONE state in which voters have already had to endure something approximating Obama's plan.

And this, from the Wall Street Journal, is interesting:

Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown's surge in Massachusetts comes as a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll found increasing voter unease over the federal government's expanding role in the private sector.

For the first time, a majority of Americans--53%--disapprove of the government's increased role in the economy since the financial crisis, up from 44% in March. And 48% said Washington was doing too many things better left to businesses and individuals, a plurality seen in polling since September.

Poll respondents lumped Democrats' proposed overhaul of the nation's health-care system into their basket of worries about expanded government. A majority, 53%, thought the proposed legislation went too far and would hurt the quality of health care.