Vulcan's Hammer

competition is the absence of tyranny

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Why did Rothbard so love Turgot?

Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot (1727–1781) understood government regulation better than some modern day economists.
Posted by VH at 12:52 AM
Labels: economics, regulation

1 comment:

Jeffrey Perren said...

Great find. Thanks!

May 14, 2009 at 4:22 PM

Post a Comment

Newer Post Older Post Home
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)
My photo
VH
View my complete profile
Subscribe!

The Hammer Roll

  • A Disgruntled Republican
  • Askcherlock.com
  • Cafe Hayek
  • Carpe Diem
  • Cato Free Trade
  • Cato Institute
  • Cracked World
  • Division of Labor
  • Econlog
  • Freedom and Prosperity
  • Greg Mankiw
  • Heavy lifting
  • Just Politics
  • Knowledge Problem
  • Liberty Belle
  • Liberty Pen
  • Ludwig Von Mises
  • Marginal Revolution
  • National Taxpayers Union
  • Newmarks Door
  • On the rim of insanity
  • Organizations and Markets
  • Political Conservatives
  • Reason Blog
  • SBVOR
  • Shaving Leviathan
  • The Adam Smith Institute
  • The American Conservative Union
  • The Austrian Economists
  • The BoBo Files
  • The Club For Growth
  • The Desert Grows Green
  • The Economists Cookbook
  • The Goldwater Institute
  • The Independent Bloghorn
  • The Marc Chamot Report
  • The Sports Economist
  • The Volokh Conspiracy

Blog Archive

  • ►  2013 (2)
    • ►  April (1)
    • ►  March (1)
  • ►  2011 (12)
    • ►  August (3)
    • ►  July (1)
    • ►  June (6)
    • ►  May (2)
  • ►  2010 (237)
    • ►  December (2)
    • ►  November (10)
    • ►  October (16)
    • ►  September (11)
    • ►  August (16)
    • ►  July (18)
    • ►  June (26)
    • ►  May (25)
    • ►  April (24)
    • ►  March (28)
    • ►  February (41)
    • ►  January (20)
  • ▼  2009 (356)
    • ►  December (26)
    • ►  November (20)
    • ►  October (12)
    • ►  September (38)
    • ►  August (35)
    • ►  July (39)
    • ►  June (38)
    • ▼  May (17)
      • Random Thoughts From Thomas Sowell
      • The Funny Thing About Statistics...
      • Price Controls And Government Handouts Strike Again
      • Markets In All Things
      • The Dorm Fire
      • Cartoon of the day
      • California Unemployment Rate Drops
      • Abolish The Fed!
      • Another $7.5 Billion For GMAC
      • The Art of Spin In The Health Care Debate
      • Political Charade and Deregulation
      • Social Security and Medicare hit the fan
      • Why did Rothbard so love Turgot?
      • President Obama's Deferral Proposal: Hamstringing ...
      • Industries Push for Free Pollution Credits
      • Ron Paul vs. Bernanke
      • Obama Motors!
    • ►  April (33)
    • ►  March (25)
    • ►  February (35)
    • ►  January (38)
  • ►  2008 (401)
    • ►  December (35)
    • ►  November (46)
    • ►  October (50)
    • ►  September (38)
    • ►  August (36)
    • ►  July (45)
    • ►  June (36)
    • ►  May (50)
    • ►  April (31)
    • ►  March (34)

Labels

  • "Power Hungry" Robert Bryce
  • $250 one time payment
  • $26 billion emergency bill
  • 110th Congress
  • 2001
  • 401K plans
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • ACORN
  • affirmative action
  • AFSCME
  • air force
  • Airport security
  • Al gore
  • Alan Reynolds
  • Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  • american economy
  • American foriegn policy
  • American history
  • Americans grow poorer
  • an alternative to raising the income tax
  • anarchy
  • anti-capitalists
  • Arizona boycott due to immigration law
  • Art Laffer
  • asset bubbles
  • Atlanta mob for section eight
  • Austan Goolsbee
  • Austrian economics
  • auto makers
  • Avi Lewis
  • Awards
  • baby boomers
  • bad behavior
  • banking
  • bankruptcy
  • Barack Obama
  • Barack Obama suggests value added tax
  • Barack Obama's speech on oil
  • Barney Frank
  • Batman
  • batteries failing on Honda hybrids
  • beer
  • Bernie Madoff
  • big engine
  • big government
  • Bill Clinton
  • bio-fuels
  • bipartisan
  • birds
  • BLM
  • Blogging
  • blue collar
  • blue state
  • book reviews
  • BP oil
  • Brazil
  • bread
  • Brothers At War
  • Buddha
  • Bush tax cuts end
  • CAFE
  • Cafe Hayek
  • California
  • California is broke
  • california wild fires
  • camera's
  • Camille Paglia
  • campaign contributions by the Koch brothers
  • Canada
  • cap and trade
  • capital gains tax
  • capitalism
  • Carbon Emissions
  • cars
  • cartoon
  • cash for caulkers
  • cash for clunkers
  • Cato Institute
  • CBO
  • CBS poll
  • census and race
  • Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation
  • central planning and government force
  • CFL bulbs
  • Cha-Ching
  • charity
  • charles krauthammer
  • Chavez
  • Che Guevara
  • china
  • China. tire wars
  • Chris Dodd
  • Chrysler
  • Cigarettes
  • CIT
  • Civil Asset Forteiture
  • civil rights
  • Civil Rights act of 1964
  • Cleveland Fed
  • Climate change
  • climategate
  • CO2
  • collectivism
  • Colombia
  • comedy
  • command economy
  • communism
  • compact fluorescent bulbs
  • congress
  • congressional spending
  • COP15
  • corporate taxes
  • corporations
  • corporatism
  • cost of college
  • CPAC
  • CPI
  • CRA
  • craigslist
  • credit
  • credit agencies get a sweet deal
  • credit cards
  • crony capitalism
  • cuba
  • currency
  • Dan Mitchell
  • danny glover
  • data
  • dating
  • Debt
  • Deepwater Horizon disaster
  • deficit spending
  • delisted
  • democracy
  • Democratic-controlled Congress
  • democrats
  • democrats lose big in mid-terms
  • Demographics
  • Denmark
  • Deregulation
  • Detroit
  • Discovery Channel
  • discrimination
  • division of labor
  • DIY
  • dollar
  • drilling leases
  • drilling moratorium
  • drought
  • drug addiction
  • drugs
  • E.U.
  • earmarks
  • Earth First
  • eco-terror
  • economic crisis looming
  • economics
  • economy
  • education
  • educational system
  • Election 2008
  • election day 2010
  • eminent domain
  • end of Capitalism
  • energy
  • enviromental regulations causing harm
  • environmental harm
  • environmental impact studies
  • environmentalism
  • ethanol
  • everyday life
  • explosives
  • Exxon profits
  • Exxon Valdez
  • F.A. Hayek
  • failed stimulus
  • fair-trade
  • Fannie Mae
  • FARC
  • farm bill
  • fascists
  • FDR
  • federal deficits growing larger
  • federal meddling
  • federal spending
  • FEMA
  • Feminism
  • FHA
  • Fiat money
  • Fidel Castro
  • Financial crisis in America
  • financial reform
  • Finanial crisis in America
  • first amendment
  • food prices
  • foreclosed homes
  • France
  • Freddie Mac
  • Frederic Bastiat
  • free association
  • Free To Choose
  • free trade
  • free-market
  • free-market health care reform
  • free-speech
  • free-trade
  • freedom
  • freedom to choose network
  • freedomain radio
  • fuel efficiency
  • fuel standards
  • fun query
  • futures market
  • gallup poll
  • Gandhi
  • Gas prices
  • GDP
  • GDP slows
  • General Motors
  • genetically modified foods
  • George Soros buys justice
  • George W. Bush
  • George Will
  • Glenn Beck
  • global warming
  • globalization
  • GM
  • gold
  • Gold prices hit high
  • GOP
  • government bailout
  • government bailout of newspapers
  • government bureacracy
  • government debt
  • government failure
  • government intervention
  • government power
  • government spending
  • government sponsored entities
  • government subsidies
  • government transfer of wealth
  • government waste
  • great depression
  • Greece
  • greece is a welfare state
  • Greek bailout
  • Greek bailout and crisis
  • green collar jobs
  • green energy
  • green peace
  • green revolution
  • greenpeace
  • Greenpeace fear mongering propoganda
  • guest post
  • gulag
  • Gulf of Mexico
  • gun control
  • hammer
  • Happy Friday
  • Harry Reid
  • Hawaii
  • Hayek
  • Health
  • Health care
  • health care reform
  • Henry Hazlitt
  • Herbert Hoover
  • high paying government jobs
  • high speed rail in California
  • higher taxes on business
  • hockey stick
  • hollywood
  • home schooling
  • homeless issue
  • housing crisis
  • housing market
  • Hugo Chavez
  • humor
  • hurricane Katrina
  • hybrid cars
  • IMF
  • incentives
  • income inequality in America
  • income tax
  • Independence Day
  • India
  • infant mortality rate
  • inflation
  • intellectuals
  • interest rates
  • interstate commerce clause
  • intrade
  • intrade predicts Republican win in November
  • investment tax
  • IPCC
  • Iran
  • IRS
  • James Lee
  • Jerry Taylor
  • Jim Crow
  • Jim Rogers
  • Jimi Hendrix star spangled banner
  • job growth in private sector is weak
  • job losses
  • job opportunity
  • jobs
  • jobs bill
  • jobs created under Republican and Democrat presidents
  • Joe Biden
  • John F. Kennedy
  • John Mackey
  • john stewart
  • john stossel
  • Jonah Goldberg
  • Julian Simon
  • keith olbermann
  • keith olbermann suspended without pay
  • Keynesian economics
  • KKK
  • Kyoto Protocol
  • labor unions big contributors to Democratic causes
  • laissez faire capitalism
  • land mines
  • Larry King
  • Larry Kudlow
  • law
  • lawsuits
  • leading economic indicators
  • libel
  • liberal bloggers on economy
  • liberal bloggers on oil spill
  • liberal culture dominates
  • Liberal Fascism
  • Liberal hypocrites
  • liberal press
  • liberal propoganda
  • liberalism
  • Libertarian party
  • libertarianism
  • licensing
  • life expectancy
  • links
  • Living
  • lobbyists
  • logic
  • lost jobs
  • love
  • low taxes
  • ludwig von mises
  • Malthusians
  • manufacturing jobs
  • Mao
  • map
  • Mark Thornton
  • mark williams ousted from tea party
  • Markets in everything
  • marriage
  • Massachusetts
  • means testing
  • media bias
  • Medicaid
  • medical tools
  • Medicare
  • Megan McArdle
  • Memorial Day
  • mercury
  • Merry Christmas
  • Michael Cannon
  • Michael Crichton
  • Michael Moore
  • midterm elections
  • Military
  • Milton Friedman
  • minimum wage
  • misc
  • misery
  • Mises Institute
  • monetizing debt by printing dollars
  • money
  • money supply
  • monopoly
  • moral hazard
  • Mortgage Industry
  • MoveOn.org
  • movies
  • MSNBC
  • MUNI
  • municipal bonds
  • Murray Rothbard
  • NAFTA
  • Nancy Pelosi
  • Naomi Klein
  • Nassim Taleb
  • national defense
  • nationalize refiners
  • natural gas
  • neo-marxist
  • news items
  • news media
  • Nobel prize
  • Nobel prize for Peace
  • Norman Borlaug
  • normandy
  • NPR
  • nuclear power
  • nullification
  • obama economic advisor leaves
  • Obama nominee
  • obama policies have failed
  • Obama's broken promises
  • ObamaCare
  • obamanomics
  • oddities
  • off-shore oil drilling
  • Ohio
  • oil companies
  • oil industry
  • oil prices
  • oil revenue's
  • oil spill due to deep water drilling
  • oil spill in Louisiana
  • oil spill in the gulf
  • oil traders
  • one nation rally full of socialists
  • OPEC
  • options market
  • organic food
  • pain medication
  • Patrick Moore
  • Paul Krugman
  • pay raise
  • peak oil theory
  • Pearl Harbor anniversary
  • Penn and Teller
  • pension plans
  • people doing stupid
  • personal responsibility
  • Peru
  • PETA
  • Peter Orszag to leave White House
  • peter schiff
  • Pew Research
  • phil jones
  • pirates
  • poetry
  • police
  • politicians
  • politics
  • poor vetting by Obama
  • population
  • population control
  • population migration
  • populism
  • posts of note and worth
  • Potatoe
  • poverty
  • pragmatism
  • prediction markets
  • President Bush
  • President Obama and the oil spill
  • presidential election
  • presidential race
  • price controls
  • price gouging
  • privacy
  • private business
  • private property rights
  • profits
  • Progressive
  • progressive propaganda
  • Progressives hate capitalism
  • propaganda
  • Prosperity
  • protectionism
  • protests
  • protests for jobless benefits
  • public option
  • Public schools
  • public sector
  • public service
  • quiz
  • quote
  • race-relations
  • racism
  • racist
  • Rand Paul
  • rare earth minerals
  • Rasmussen poll
  • rationing
  • recession
  • recycling
  • red state
  • regulation
  • regulatory capture
  • rent seeking
  • republicans
  • Republicans will take the House in November
  • RNC chairman
  • Road to Serfdom
  • Rod Blagojevich
  • RomneyCare
  • Ron Paul
  • Ronald Reagan
  • rose friedman
  • Russell Roberts
  • Russia
  • sanity rally
  • Sarah Palin
  • Saudi Arabia
  • school choice
  • school lunch program
  • science
  • science fiction
  • scooter
  • scrip
  • senior citizens
  • September 11
  • sewer water
  • Shelter for homeless families
  • single-payer
  • slander
  • small government
  • social security
  • social welfare
  • socialism
  • solar energy
  • solar panels
  • solar power industry
  • solar water heaters
  • soldiers as symbols
  • sp
  • space invaders
  • Spanish hiring
  • speculators
  • stagflation
  • Standard and Poors down grades U.S. credit
  • state deficits
  • state income tax
  • statistics
  • statists
  • Steve McIntyre
  • stimulus package
  • stock market
  • subprime cause
  • supply-side economics
  • survelliance cameras
  • Sweden
  • tariffs
  • tarot cards fun
  • TARP
  • TARP funds at risk by small banks
  • tax breaks end for homes
  • tax compliance
  • tax credit
  • tax cuts
  • tax dollars for finnish cars
  • tax dollars wasted
  • tax havens
  • tax hikes by Obama
  • tax payer funds at risk
  • taxes
  • taxis
  • taxpayer liability
  • taxpayers
  • tea party
  • teachers union
  • Tesla
  • Texas
  • the bobo files
  • The Clintons
  • The Daily Kos
  • the electric car scam
  • the failure of liberal education
  • The Fed
  • The Federal Reserve
  • the flat tax
  • The Great Depression
  • The New Deal
  • the police
  • The Power of The State
  • the sierra club
  • the welfare state
  • The White House has tapped Elizabeth Warren as a special adviser to help set up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
  • the worlds poor
  • Thomas DiLorenzo
  • Thomas E. Woods
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Thomas Sowell
  • Tim Geithner
  • trade
  • traders
  • treasury bonds
  • tyranny
  • U.S. debt rises
  • U.S. foreign aid
  • U.S. oil reserves
  • UAW
  • unemployment
  • unemployment rate in Spain
  • uninsured
  • unintended consequences
  • unions
  • United States Postal Service
  • universal healthcare
  • Vacation
  • value added tax
  • van jones resigns
  • VAT
  • Venezuela
  • video
  • voting
  • Voucher System
  • wages
  • Wall Street bailout
  • Walter Block
  • Walter E. Williams
  • Walter Williams
  • war pictures
  • Warren Buffet
  • wasted taxpayer funds
  • water
  • water shortage
  • weird stuff
  • Welfare
  • when Bush tax cuts end
  • Will Ferrell
  • wind-farm turbines
  • windfall profits tax
  • windmills
  • words of wisdom
  • worklife
  • world hunger
  • write-downs
  • yuan
  • zimbabwe
Business Directory for San Rafael, CA
Simple theme. Powered by Blogger.