Comments on: Hoppe on Liberal Economies and War

By: Don’t Bet on China

Don’t Bet on China — Wed, 12 May 2010 05:08:16 +0000

[...] In my view, America is, for all our faults, still, by far, the strongest and best large economy in the world. Who can match the US? Canada is too small. Japan is not quite our size and has its own problems. Europe is like an older, more kleptocratic version of the US–and is probably second best in the world. South America is a basket case of banana republics. Africa is even worse. Russia and Central Europe?–mired in pessimism and corruption and the tendrils of the wreckage of communism. Of the rest, I think India has a better chance than China, for two reasons: they speak English, and they inherited the English property rights system–unlike in China where you still have to lease land from the state for 50 years instead of buying it. And I think India is a basket case too, unlikely to improve much for many decades. So the US is and will remain preeminent, in my view–despite all our problems. (See also Jonathan Bean’s America’s Hidden Strength: Babies, Immigration.) Unfortunately, this will allow our parasitical state to maintain its warfare-welfare state (see my post Hoppe on Liberal Economies and War). [...]

By: Don’t Bet on China | The Libertarian Standard

Don’t Bet on China | The Libertarian Standard — Wed, 12 May 2010 05:07:24 +0000

By: Stephan Kinsella

Stephan Kinsella — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 05:32:18 +0000

I should add that this chapter is reprinted in Hoppe's THE ECONOMICS AND ETHICS OF PRIVATE PROPERTY (1993).

By: Adem Kupi

Adem Kupi — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 05:22:10 +0000

That is an awesome quote and, in fact, materially useful for me in some arguments I am engaged in right now. Thanks for posting it.