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Paul Bass

Paul Bass has written 5 posts for Stress

Barak Obama, respect where due

A little bit of old news but a little change is better than none, Barak Obama disses Churchill.
“The bronze by Sir Jacob Epstein, worth hundreds of thousands of pounds if it were ever sold on the open market, enjoyed pride of place in the Oval Office during President Bush’s tenure.
But when British officials offered [...]

A Question of Property.

A question of property.
Having only scratched the surface of the literature at Mises, a single point just keeps jumping out at me. Now I was raised orthodox Jewish and had many years of education in Gemara. One of the key focuses of these ancient texts is in fact property rights. The point that I [...]

Water!

WATER!
Two thirds of the world surface, over sixty five percent of the human body, falling from the sky, or locked in the ice caps at the poles. it seems so simple but it causes so much trouble. Water is necessary for all agriculture and just about every industry to varying degrees. The growing concern [...]

Hegemony or Freedom

At a glance the libertarian world view presents a simple paradox, if every one is free to do as they please, how does one ensure that libertarian society exists. The simple truth however is that for economic freedom to exist there must first be complete and total political freedom. Political freedom in the libertarian [...]

A socialist dream or a practical maxim.

From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
The famous Marxist saying seems to ring incredibly hollow in today’s ostensibly equal societies. Its implications are relatively strait forward, through the apparatus of the state and by means of “Democracy” whether in the form of western liberal democracy or in workers soviets. All [...]

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