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Conversation with John Mackey of Whole Foods on Libertarian Theory (Mark Skousen and Richard Ebeling too) Dear John: It all depends. For the mainstream empiricist monetarist like Friedman, it would be falsifiable; you’d just go out and measure whether or not inflationary expectations are low, whether or not the demand to hold money has increased (parenthetically, these two are not unrelated). If this was true, then the monetarist hypothesis would be accepted in this one case. If not, rejected. It is not at all falsifiable for Austrian economists such as myself (and Mises, Rothbard and other...

Grafting neurons grown from monkeys’ own cells into their brains relieved the debilitating movement and depression symptoms associated with Parkinson’s disease, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison report, in In the study, the UW team describes its success with neurons made from induced pluripotent stem cells from the monkeys’ own bodies. This approach avoided complications with the primates’ immune systems and takes an important step toward a treatment for millions of human Parkinson’s patients. “This result in primates is extremely powerful, particularly for trans...

I first met Murray Rothbard when, as treasurer of the New Jersey Libertarian Party, I invited him to give the keynote address at our inaugural convention. He graciously agreed to do it for the paltry sum of $75 plus a puny chicken dinner. Prior to his talk, I introduced myself to him, and we spoke for a while about the state of the libertarian movement before I mentioned that I was a graduate student in economics and was reading some of the books and articles that he had cited in his treatise  Man, Economy, and State. I never expected his reaction to my casual remark. His eyes immediately li...

Neuroscience News Neuroscience research articles are provided. What is neuroscience? Neuroscience is the scientific study of nervous systems. Neuroscience can involve research from many branches of science including those involving neurology, brain science, neurobiology, psychology, computer science, artificial intelligence, statistics, prosthetics, neuroimaging, engineering, medicine, physics, mathematics, pharmacology, electrophysiology, biology, robotics and technology. – What is neurology? – Definition of neurology: a science involved in the study of the nervous systems, especially ...

My friend Tom wrote the following: “The university administrators knew that Walter Block himself would never apologize, and neither would I, the sponsor of the lecture.  So they pressured several members of the economics department who were not even at the lecture to write a letter of apology in the student newspaper, which they dutifully did.  That letter was a lie, since it was signed by “The Economics Department” despite the fact that I did not even hear of the letter as it was being written and certainly did not sign it, and neither did the department chairman, Father Hank Hilton,...