27 de mai. de 2012

instituições restringem a espontaneidade

Boundaries of Order (Butler Shaffer)
- Highlight Loc. 245-47  | Added on Monday, December 12, 2011, 02:39 AM

Life is a continuing process of making adjustments and creative responses in a world too complex to be predictable. Because institutions are systems that have become their own reason for being, their interests often consist in efforts to stabilize the environment in which they operate.

INSTITUIÇÕES

Boundaries of Order (Butler Shaffer)
- Highlight Loc. 239-44  | Added on Monday, December 12, 2011, 02:38 AM

It is common to organize with one another for social, business, religious, recreational, or other purposes. From bowling leagues to book clubs to various hobby groups, we form associations with one another that function as tools through which we accomplish shared interests. Such organizations are extensions of our individual purposes, subject to our control. A business partnership, for instance, is a vehicle allowing us to engage in a productive division of labor for profitable ends. But as the organization becomes increasingly successful, there is a tendency to preserve its effectiveness through the creation of hierarchical structures and formal rules of conduct. When the preservation of the organization becomes more important than the informal and spontaneous practices that created it, an institution has been born.

Malinvestment in labor markets is the counterpart to malinvestment in capital goods.

Malinvestment in Human Capital  (thinkmarkets.wordpress.com)
- Highlight Loc. 9-13  | Added on Sunday, December 11, 2011, 07:12 PM

Malinvestment in labor markets is the counterpart to malinvestment in capital goods. Higher education is a bubble, and colleges churn out graduates with degrees that have no application in the workplace. Student borrowing to acquire such degrees is malinvestment in the same way that constructions loans to build homes in Las Vegas was malinvestment. There is no mechanism by which lowering interest rates (“monetary stimulus”) or spending money on public workers (“fiscal stimulus”) is going to cure the problem. Labor mismatch is a  manifestation of a coordination failure, just as malinvestment in capital goods is a manifestation of a coordination failure. It is a microeconomic problem.

Malinvestment in Human Capital

Malinvestment in Human Capital  (thinkmarkets.wordpress.com)
- Highlight Loc. 5-7  | Added on Sunday, December 11, 2011, 07:12 PM

It is a widespread problem: the article reports survey results showing that 83 percent of manufacturers reported a moderate or severe shortage of skilled production workers. The shortages include such categories as machinists. Wages for skilled labor are rising, in some cases at double-digit rates.

all firms are profit maximizing, but the level of real profits earned is zero

The Failure of Market Failure  (thefreemanonline.org)
- Highlight Loc. 18-20  | Added on Friday, December 09, 2011, 05:50 AM

In general equilibrium, prices of all goods are exactly equal to the marginal cost of producing them and all households maximize their utility.  In addition, all firms are profit maximizing, but the level of real profits earned is zero,

Foi o melhor peru que comi na vida

Cozinheiros Demais, Rex Stout
- Highlight Loc. 2840-42  | Added on Thursday, December 08, 2011, 11:35 AM

Foi o melhor peru que comi na vida, mas as outras porções abundantes limitaram minha capacidade de consumo. Os sujeitos comiam como se fossem uma mulher enchendo uma mala. Não era questão de quanto cabia, mas sim do que precisava pôr lá dentro.

last battle

The Napoleon of Notting Hill (G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton and W. Graham (Walford Graham) Robertson)
- Highlight on Page 138 | Loc. 2214-17  | Added on Wednesday, December 07, 2011, 10:53 AM

When I was young I remember, in the old dreary days, wiseacres used to write books about how trains would get faster, and all the world be one empire, and tram-cars go to the moon. And even as a child I used to say to myself, 'Far more likely that we shall go on the crusades again, or worship the gods of the city.' And so it has been. And I am glad, though this is my last battle."

ILUMINAÇÃO, o retorno

Inteligência e verdade  (olavodecarvalho.org)
- Highlight Loc. 97-100  | Added on Tuesday, December 06, 2011, 03:37 PM

O pensamento, para nós, pode ser objeto. A inteligência, não. O ato de reflexão pelo qual retornamos a um pensamento para examiná-lo ou julgá-lo é um outro pensamento, de conteúdo diferente do primeiro. Mas a recordação de um ato de inteligência é o mesmíssimo ato de inteligência, reforçado e revivificado, numa nova afirmação de si mesmo. Não posso recordar o conteúdo de um ato de intelecção sem inteligir novamente os mesmos conteúdos, quase sempre com redobrada força de evidência.

a verdade se atualiza na inteligência humana

Inteligência e verdade  (olavodecarvalho.org)
- Highlight Loc. 91-94  | Added on Tuesday, December 06, 2011, 03:35 PM

o resultado da conta de 2 + 2 que aparece na tela do computador é uma verdade, mas uma verdade que está no objeto e não ainda na inteligência; essa verdade está na tela como a verdadeira estrutura mineralógica de uma pedra está na pedra ou como a verdadeira fisiologia do animal está no animal: são verdades latentes, que jazem na obscuridade do mundo objetivo aguardando o instante em que se atualizarão na inteligência humana.

The Great Western Crackup (lewrockwell.com)

The Great Western Crackup  (lewrockwell.com)
- Highlight Loc. 62-65  | Added on Wednesday, December 07, 2011, 10:47 AM

Perhaps the analysts at Fitch realize that if the Fed were to stop buying Treasuries, say because consumer prices started rising too quickly to ignore, then rising interest rates would add additional trillions to the debt problem, making default inevitable. Or maybe they're starting to realize that getting paid back the whole coupon in worthless dollars is just another form of default.

família feliz

The Black Swan (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
- Highlight Loc. 3959  | Added on Tuesday, December 06, 2011, 06:38 PM

Tolstoy said that happy families were all alike, while each unhappy one is unhappy in its own way.

A inteligência

Inteligência e verdade  (olavodecarvalho.org)
- Highlight Loc. 83-91  | Added on Tuesday, December 06, 2011, 03:35 PM

A inteligência não consiste somente em atinar com um resultado verdadeiro, mas em admitir esse resultado como verdadeiro. Que significa "admitir"? Significa, primeiro, estar livre para preferir um resultado falso ( um computador pode ser programado para preferir os resultados falsos num certo número de ocasiões, mas sempre segundo um padrão pré-estabelecido ). Significa, em segundo lugar, crer nesse resultado, isto é, assumir uma responsabilidade pessoal pela afirmação dele e pelas consequências que dele derivem. A inteligência, neste sentido, só é admissível em seres livres e responsáveis, e o primeiro ser livre e responsável que conhecemos na escala dos viventes é o homem: nenhum ser abaixo dele possui inteligência, e se há seres superiores ao homem é um problema que não nos interessa no momento e cuja solução não interferiria no que estamos examinando aqui. A inteligência é a relação que se estabelece entre o homem e a verdade, uma relação que só o homem tem com a verdade, e que só tem no momento em que intelige e admite a verdade, já que ele pode tornar-se ininteligente no instante seguinte, quando a esquece ou renega.

Até mesmo o sentimento intelige

Inteligência e verdade  (olavodecarvalho.org)
- Highlight Loc. 75-78  | Added on Tuesday, December 06, 2011, 03:32 PM

Até mesmo o sentimento intelige, quando ama o que é verdadeiramente amável e odeia o que é verdadeiramente odioso: há uma inteligência do sentimento, como há uma burrice do sentimento. A inteligência não reside na mente, mas num certo tipo de relação entre o ato mental e o seu objeto, relação que denominamos "veracidade" do conteúdo desse ato mental ( notem bem: veracidade do conteúdo, e não do ato mesmo ).

Inteligência e verdade (olavodecarvalho.org)

Inteligência e verdade  (olavodecarvalho.org)
- Highlight Loc. 69-72  | Added on Tuesday, December 06, 2011, 03:31 PM

O pensamento artificial é essencialmente uma imitação de atos de pensamento segundo a fórmula das suas sequências e combinações. Do mesmo modo podemos imitar a imaginação e a memória, se em vez de utilizar uma correspondência biunívoca entre signo e significado recorrermos a uma rede de correspondências analógicas. Dá na mesma: em ambos os casos, trata-se de imitar um algoritmo, a fórmula de uma sequência ou rede de combinações, que por sua vez imitam as operações reais da mente.

o que é a Verdade?

Inteligência e verdade  (olavodecarvalho.org)
- Highlight Loc. 54-60  | Added on Tuesday, December 06, 2011, 11:26 AM

Mas, dirá o velho Pilatos em nós, quid est Veritas? Cada um de nós é um juiz romano, corrompido até a medula, a fazer de conta que não sabe aquilo que sabe perfeitamente bem. A verdade da qual alegas nada saber, nfausto Pôncio, a verdade é o quid — esse mesmo quid que, se desconhecesses, não poderias usar como medida de aferição para o termo "verdade". Se pergunto quê é alguma coisa, se ignoro mesmo o que é alguma coisa, é porque a coisa que se me oferece nesse instante não cumpre, não atende perfeitamente a condição exigida na palavra quê — aquela consistência, aquela coesão do estar, do agir e do padecer, aquela patência e sobretudo aquela fatalidade, aquele não-ser-de-outro-modo, aquela impositiva ausência de perguntas — e da capacidade de fazer perguntas — que me sobrevém quando sei o quê. Ecce veritas. É o que basta por enquanto, sem prejuízo de posteriores discussões e aprofundamentos.

lavar as mãos

The Black Swan (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
- Highlight Loc. 3911-13  | Added on Monday, December 05, 2011, 07:01 PM

Consider that before we knew of bacteria, and their role in diseases, doctors rejected the practice of hand washing because it made no sense to them, despite the evidence of a meaningful decrease in hospital deaths.

Serbo-Croatian

The Black Swan (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
- Highlight Loc. 3893-95  | Added on Monday, December 05, 2011, 06:59 PM

While the scholastic-minded will memorize declensions, the a-Platonic nonnerd will acquire, say, Serbo-Croatian by picking up potential girlfriends in bars on the outskirts of Sarajevo, or talking to cabdrivers, then fitting (if needed) grammatical rules to the knowledge he already possesses.

languages grow organically

The Black Swan (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
- Highlight Loc. 3891-93  | Added on Monday, December 05, 2011, 06:59 PM

He will have the impression that some higher grammatical authority set the linguistic regulations so that nonlearned ordinary people could subsequently speak the language. In reality, languages grow organically; grammar is something people without anything more exciting to do in their lives codify into a book.

a vida é feita de atitudes humanas

Cozinheiros Demais, Rex Stout
- Highlight Loc. 2300-2303  | Added on Monday, December 05, 2011, 06:51 PM

Você sabe muito bem o que é a vida; a vida é feita de atitudes humanas, e entre elas está um controle decente e inteligente dos apetites que partilhamos com os cachorros. Um homem não disputa uma carcaça nem late no alto de um morro do crepúsculo ao amanhecer. Ele come alimentos cozidos, quando consegue, em quantidades limitadas, e administra suas paixões conforme suas conveniências.

Cozinheiros Demais, Rex Stout

Cozinheiros Demais, Rex Stout
- Highlight Loc. 1782-87  | Added on Monday, December 05, 2011, 05:59 PM

Não é decente forçar o vício da cocaína em um homem, mas é monstruoso fazer isso e depois, repentinamente, retirar seu suprimento da droga. A natureza pretende apenas que um homem satisfaça uma mulher, e que esta satisfaça um homem, tanto física quanto espiritualmente, mas não há satisfação para ninguém na senhora. O vapor que emana de seus olhos, de seus lábios, de sua pele macia, de sua silhueta e de seu movimento não é bom, mas maligno. Eu a culpo por tudo: estava viva, com seus instintos e apetites, viu Marko e o desejou. Envolveu-o com seu miasma — fez de seu veneno o ar que ele respirava — e depois, por capricho, sem avisar, tomou este ar dele e o deixou sufocando.

The Market and the Distribution of Wealth (mises.org)

The Market and the Distribution of Wealth  (mises.org)
- Highlight Loc. 220-23  | Added on Monday, December 05, 2011, 03:32 PM

It is very much to be hoped that economists in the future will show themselves less inclined than they have been in the past to look for ready-made, but spurious, coherence, and that they will take a greater interest in the variety of ways in which the human mind in action produces coherence out of an initially incoherent

the modern economist

The Market and the Distribution of Wealth  (mises.org)
- Highlight Loc. 193-94  | Added on Monday, December 05, 2011, 03:27 PM

the modern economist, so learned in the grammar of equilibrium, so ignorant of the facts of the market,

If all capital resources were infinitely versatile:

The Market and the Distribution of Wealth  (mises.org)
- Highlight Loc. 75-77  | Added on Monday, December 05, 2011, 03:05 PM

If all capital resources were infinitely versatile, the entrepreneurial problem would consist in no more than following the changes of external conditions by turning combinations of resources to a succession of uses made profitable by these changes.

The Market and the Distribution of Wealth

The Market and the Distribution of Wealth  (mises.org)
- Highlight Loc. 62-63  | Added on Monday, December 05, 2011, 03:02 PM

In a world of unexpected change the maintenance of wealth is always problematical; and in the long run it may be said to be impossible.

bens x entulhos

The Market and the Distribution of Wealth  (mises.org)
- Highlight Loc. 56-62  | Added on Monday, December 05, 2011, 02:31 PM

Derelict houses and heaps of scrap are obvious examples, as are any objects which their owners would gladly give away if they could find somebody willing to remove them. Moreover, what is a resource today may cease to be one tomorrow, while what is a valueless object today may become valuable tomorrow. The resource status of material objects is therefore always problematical and depends to some extent on foresight. An object constitutes wealth only if it is a source of an income stream. The value of the object to the owner, actual or potential, reflects at any moment its expected income-yielding capacity. This, in its turn, will depend on the uses to which the object can be turned. The mere ownership of objects, therefore, does not necessarily confer wealth; it is their successful use which confers it. Not ownership but use of resources is the source of income and wealth. An ice-cream factory in New York may mean wealth to its owner; the same ice-cream factory in Greenland would scarcely be a resource.

Sociedades sem Estado: a antiga Irlanda (libertarianismo.org)

Sociedades sem Estado: a antiga Irlanda  (libertarianismo.org)
- Highlight Loc. 91-97  | Added on Sunday, December 04, 2011, 03:30 PM

O direito irlandês reconhecia o provável fato de que um homem pobre pudesse ter dificuldade em fazer um homem rico enviar uma disputa para negociação ou arbitragem por um filid. Ele assim previa um tipo especial de procedimento. De acordo com ele, o querelante era obrigado a ir até o portão da casa do acusado e sentar lá do nascer até o pôr-do-sol, jejuando durante todo o tempo; o acusado deveria, da mesma forma, manter um jejum ou enviar o caso para adjudicação. Se ele quebrasse seu jejum ou se recusasse a enviar o caso para a adjudicação depois de três dias, era declarado que ele havia perdido sua honra dentro da comunidade e não poderia exigir a execução de nenhuma reclamação sua. Nas palavras do código legal: "Aquele que não se comprometer ao jejum é um fugitivo de todos.

The Natural Rate of Unemployment (thefreemanonline.org)

The Natural Rate of Unemployment  (thefreemanonline.org)
- Highlight Loc. 11-12  | Added on Sunday, December 04, 2011, 01:53 AM

It is unnatural that man should be unemployed. There are countless needs and wants not fulfilled, desires not met.

Tenho de admitir que Odell daria um bom jogador de pôquer

Cozinheiros Demais, Rex Stout
- Highlight Loc. 916-17  | Added on Friday, December 02, 2011, 01:10 AM

Tenho de admitir que Odell daria um bom jogador de pôquer. Era o próprio juiz da Suprema Corte fingindo que não tinha interesse pessoal algum no caso.

A senhorita Putti disse que o senhor Keith fez estes biscoitos com suas próprias mãos

Cozinheiros Demais, Rex Stout
- Highlight Loc. 547-50  | Added on Wednesday, November 30, 2011, 12:20 AM

— A senhorita Putti disse que o senhor Keith fez estes biscoitos com suas próprias mãos, utilizando ingredientes que trouxe da índia.      

— Já experimentou?      
— Sim.      
— Prestam?      
— Não.      
— Então diga a ela, por favor, que nunca como nada entre as refeições.

15 de mai. de 2012

ILUMINAÇÃO


José Ferrater Mora_Dicionário De Filosofia
- Highlight Loc. 6446-57  | Added on Tuesday, November 29, 2011, 03:14 PM

ILUMINAÇÃO—Santo Agostinho não crê necessário demonstrar a existência de Deus. _Demonstrar tal existência equivaleria a provar que a proposição “Deus existe” é verdadeira. Mas só em Deus está a verdade; mais ainda Deus é a verdade. Por conseguinte, todas as proposições que se percebem como verdadeiras são-no porque foram previamente iluminadas pela Luz Divina. Compreender algo inteligivelmemnte equivale a extrair da alma a sua inteligibilidade; nada se compreende inteligivelmente que de algum modo não se _saiba previamente. Com efeito, Santo Agostinho—seguindo nisto, por outro lado, ideias platónicas e neoplatónicas—considera que o que torna possível tal percepção do inteligível não é a reminiscência de um mundo das ideias, mas si, a irradiação Divina do inteligível. Em suma, há uma “luz eterna da razão”, que procede de Deus e graças à qual há conhecimento da Verdade.

o Expurgo do Condado: uma fábula socialista


Tolkien vs. Socialism  (lewrockwell.com)
- Highlight Loc. 126-30  | Added on Monday, November 28, 2011, 02:54 AM

We want to show that not only was Tolkien perfectly aware of the inherent problems of socialism; he also wanted to put his position so clearly that he dedicated to it one of the most important (and regrettably less studied) chapters of his masterpiece: the VIII Chapter of Book Six, "The Scouring of the Shire." After the War of the Ring, the Hobbits get back to their homeland, but find a very bad surprise there: the evil Saruman (Tolkien’s fictionalization of a philosopher dreaming of being king) has taken power and established a socialist regime.

"Notting Hill! Notting Hill!" cried the invisible people, and the invaders were hewn down horribly with black steel, with steel that gave no glint against any light.


The Napoleon of Notting Hill (G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton and W. Graham (Walford Graham) Robertson)
- Highlight on Page 103 | Loc. 1613-14  | Added on Tuesday, November 29, 2011, 12:50 AM

"Notting Hill! Notting Hill!" cried the invisible people, and the invaders were hewn down horribly with black steel, with steel that gave no glint against any light.

the development of ‘character’ can be a product of conscious intention


Tolkien vs. Socialism  (lewrockwell.com)
- Highlight Loc. 101-5  | Added on Monday, November 28, 2011, 02:50 AM

"A man is not only a seed – JRRT argued – developing in a defined pattern, well or ill according to its situation or its defects as an example of its species; a man is both a seed and in some degree also a gardener, for good or ill. I am impressed by the degree in which the development of ‘character’ can be a product of conscious intention, the will to modify innate tendencies in desired directions (...) In any case, I personally find most people incalculable in any particular situation of emergency" (Tolkien 1995, p.240).

Tolkien vs. Socialism  (lewrockwell.com)


Tolkien vs. Socialism  (lewrockwell.com)
- Highlight Loc. 58-59  | Added on Monday, November 28, 2011, 02:31 AM

For we are attempting to conquer Sauron with the Ring. And we shall (it seems) succeed. But the penalty is, as you will know, to breed new Saurons, and slowly turn Men and Elves into Orcs.

Varieties of Austrian Price Theory


Varieties of Austrian Price Theory
- Highlight Loc. 429-32  | Added on Friday, November 25, 2011, 03:14 AM

8, 178: Contrary to K. it is an a priori generalization that “returns to scale” must be constant. (If, of course, the roster of enumerated factors is complete, and if they are really homogeneous). This is a priori true because of the nature of the law of cause-and-effect. For, if: 2A + 3B + C would yield 10 P (where A, B, and C are factors, and P is the product), then, by simple addition, and law of cause-and-effect, 4A + 6B + 2C will yield 20P.

anarchist Tolkien


Why Do They Hate Him?  (lewrockwell.com)
- Highlight Loc. 70-72  | Added on Sunday, November 27, 2011, 03:31 PM

In another article, Mingardi and Stagnaro show that far from being a statist as so many of the literati were throughout the 20th century, Tolkien identified himself as an anarchist (of the private property sort, not the socialist, bomb-throwing sort).

Corporations useless forecasts


The Black Swan (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
- Highlight Loc. 3866-70  | Added on Wednesday, November 23, 2011, 08:11 PM

Governments make forecasts; companies produce projections; every year various forecasters project the level of mortgage rates and the stock market at the end of the following year. Corporations survive not because they have made good forecasts, but because, like the CEOs visiting Wharton I mentioned earlier, they may have been the lucky ones. And, like a restaurant owner, they may be hurting themselves, not us—perhaps helping us and subsidizing our consumption by giving us goods in the process, like cheap telephone calls to the rest of the world funded by the overinvestment during the dotcom era.

Poincaré


The Black Swan (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
- Highlight Loc. 3761-63  | Added on Wednesday, November 23, 2011, 07:53 PM

Poincaré became a prolific essayist in his thirties. He seemed in a hurry and died prematurely, at fifty-eight; he was in such a rush that he did not bother correcting typos and grammatical errors in his text, even after spotting them, since he found doing so a gross misuse of his time. They no longer make geniuses like that—or they no longer let them write in their own way.

Israel Kirzner, o monopolista cruel


Varieties of Austrian Price Theory
- Highlight Loc. 361-70  | Added on Wednesday, November 23, 2011, 07:46 PM

Further, since the “monopolist” is, after all, the source and the creator of the supply, it is absurd to say that he “forces”—in some reprehensible manner—the consumer to pay higher prices for his product. All the purchases are voluntary, and due to a voluntarily high evaluation of his product. Are we then to condemn Israel Kirzner for (possibly) restricting his teaching hours so as to raise the total revenue to him? (If we could, which we can never do, somehow separate this from the increased leisure which Kirzner would then earn?) Are producers then to be enslaved to the consumers? We might grant that the consumers would benefit more if Israel Kirzner were to teach 70 hours a week (even if his teaching does not now earn him a “monopoly price”). But are the producers not to be considered also in all this? Kirzner may violate the “interest of consumers” by teaching 12 instead of 70 hours a week, just as Mr. Jones does the same by becoming a poorly paid actor instead of becoming a more highly paid ad man. Yet, Kirzner himself, earlier in the book, talks about the harmony of the market, the mutual benefit of exchange. Since all the exchangers are benefiting mutually, even though the sale is by so-called “monopolists,” what is the justification for Kirzner’s complaints about the operation of the free market?

Varieties of Austrian Price Theory


Varieties of Austrian Price Theory
- Highlight Loc. 320-22  | Added on Wednesday, November 23, 2011, 07:39 PM

Chap 7 and subsequent chapters: General comment—no sense is obtained of imputation from consumer demand down to determining prices. As in Stigler-type analysis, prices are always there, given, when they are supposed to be explained, and determined. Vitiates the entire analysis.

Why always two goods?


Varieties of Austrian Price Theory
- Highlight Loc. 239-42  | Added on Wednesday, November 23, 2011, 07:30 PM

Chap. 5, p. 71 and passim: The remainder of this chapter I hold to be virtually totally in error. Why, for example, suddenly concentrate on two goods and their marginal utilities? Why not concentrate on one? What are advantages or justification of considering two, and not more or less? (There are obvious advantages for fancy graphs, but this is a mathematical, not an economic, justification.)

Is economics a tool?


Varieties of Austrian Price Theory
- Highlight Loc. 175-76  | Added on Tuesday, November 22, 2011, 11:37 PM

1, 12: the terminology is fashionable, to be sure, but must K. refer to economics as a “tool?” It is more than a tool; it is a body of substantive truths.

Does market has functions?


Varieties of Austrian Price Theory
- Highlight Loc. 163-65  | Added on Tuesday, November 22, 2011, 11:35 PM

1, 4: K. speaks of the “assigned functions of the market system.” Who makes this “assignment?” “Society?” Who is society? This contradicts K’s trenchant general discussion criticizing such holistic concepts.

Varieties of Austrian Price Theory


Varieties of Austrian Price Theory
- Highlight Loc. 135-40  | Added on Tuesday, November 22, 2011, 05:28 PM

Further, the result of abstention from capital leads to all the crucial errors of the “cost-curve” analysis. For example, it is the claim of the “cost-curve” theorists (in the ranks of which Prof. Kirzner joins) that a firm will invest funds in production up to the point where “marginal revenue” equals “marginal cost.” Setting aside the equality fallacy which I will comment on below, this means, e.g. that if an output of 10 more units will bring in $100 of revenue and cost $99, the firm will produce the 10 more units. Now I submit that this is a critical fallacy. Why should the owner of the firm invest a $100 more for an expected return of (approximately) 1%, when he can invest the same $100 for, say, 8% elsewhere—or get 5% at a savings bank?

patriotism


The Napoleon of Notting Hill (G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton and W. Graham (Walford Graham) Robertson)
- Highlight on Page 67 | Loc. 1025-29  | Added on Tuesday, November 22, 2011, 12:23 AM

He knew that real patriotism tends to sing about sorrows and forlorn hopes much more than about victory. He knew that in proper names themselves is half the poetry of all national poems. Above all, he knew the supreme psychological fact about patriotism, as certain in connection with it as that a fine shame comes to all lovers, the fact that the patriot never under any circumstances boasts of the largeness of his country, but always, and of necessity, boasts of the smallness of it.

Rothbard vs Kirzner


Varieties of Austrian Price Theory
- Highlight Loc. 75-79  | Added on Monday, November 21, 2011, 07:21 AM

Thus, in his memo, Rothbard vigorously and repeatedly objects to specific concepts, techniques, and models that Kirzner deploys in his analysis of the market economy. These include, for example: production isoquants; the horizontal demand curve; the point elasticity formula; the analysis of two goods or two factors rather than many goods and many factors; the concentration on a nebulous and hybrid “short-run equilibrium” in production theory; the narrow analytical focus on the single firm rather than on the interdependencies between firms; the characterization of the firm as paying rather than receiving interest.

The Editor's name was Hoskins

The Napoleon of Notting Hill (G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton and W. Graham (Walford Graham) Robertson)
- Highlight on Page 104 | Loc. 1638-39  | Added on Tuesday, November 29, 2011, 08:42 AM

The Editor's name was Hoskins, but the King called him Pally, which was an abbreviation of Paladium of our Liberties.