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Biden’s Family Leave Is Yet Another Attack on the Family May 11th 2021, 1:03 pm Only a bureaucrat would assume that putting a small child in public school is just as effective as keeping the child at home with a parent Unfortunately for Biden, the research isn’t on his side Image Credit: Email “Inclusive and equitable economic growth” is how the Joe Biden administration envisions its recovery plan following massive job losses from the 2020 lockdowns. Taxpayers will have to pony up $1.8 trillion for childcare, paid and medical leave, as well as universal pre-K. To Biden, the fact th...

The Bitcoin Guessing Standard Bitcoin is a software program designed by Satoshi Nakamoto (which is believed to be a pseudonym). His objective, at least on the surface, was to create electronic cash; a new hard money. This is why it is often referred to as digital gold. Satoshi Nakamoto, in his design of Bitcoin, was influenced by the prior work of Hal Finney. Critically, with regard to creating electronic tokens, Finney took seriously the cost theory of value. In turn, when Nakamoto wrote his white paper, regarding Bitcoin, he embraced Finney’s notion that processing power and electricity e...

Defending the Undefendable and the Death Penalty for Murder Subject: Death Penalty Dear  Walter Block, I was watching one of your lectures from MisesU 2016. It was the lecture on your book defending the undefendable. It was a great lecture, I quite enjoyed it and I plan on purchasing your book defending the undefendable 1 and 2, also 3 whenever that releases if it is still coming out. I wanted to ask you for the link to the study you mentioned when you were talking about the death penalty and the correlations between death penalty states vs execution states in terms of the utilitarian discus...

Libertarianism and the Nuke Question; Come to Loyola U to Study Austro-Libertarianism With Me Subject: Two questions Dear Mr. Block, I have several questions and I figured I would email you about these questions. My first question is that I want to get a degree in economics and possibly have a PhD in economics. I live in a mostly liberal/leftist state which is Washington State. Now, I looked and saw no universities in my state which has a professor that’s an austrian or teaches austrian economics. A lot of the schools that teach austrian economics or have austrian economists are over in the...

Libertarianism and Welfare Subject: a request Dearest Walter, I am writing a paper on Austro-libertarian theory of welfare trying to make it clear that justice weights infinitely more than efficiency. My aim is to ask a meaningful question of whether justice is positively correlated with efficiency. Some theories make this blunder of conceiving of efficiency only in terms or rights-respecting exchanges. I vaguely remember that you had some polemic with Mr. Hudik about it, putting it very clearly that justice is a non-tradable good, which I loved! Do you know of any other such statements? I de...