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Friday, May 7, 2010

AoC Podcast #11- Use of Knowledge in Society

Generalised account of how central planning cannot work and decentralised planning works very well. From Hayek's Use of Knowledge in Society, 1945

Link to Hayeks's article

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Friday, April 30, 2010

AoC Podcast #10- Central Planning Hazards

Lessons from The Burning Times. The Spanish Inquisition was central planning but had serious draw backs, and so it is today with our modern witch hunts. Think twice before letting Officials tax you to take over parts of your life for you. You may not be expecting the Spanish Inquisition, but nobody ever does!

AoC Podcast 10 [mp3 9meg]

Youtube vidcast

TVNZ: Switched On Gardner shut down in massive drug bust

NZ Herald: Tobacco tax once more

Article: Witches, Floods, and Wonder Drugs- Clark 1981

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Friday, April 23, 2010

AoC Podcast #9- The Free Market

Leo Tolstoy and I shed some light on the nature of the free market to help you realise that 90% of your life already works this way and that most of the rest of it is in the can because it's not!

AoC Podcast 9 [mp3 18.5meg]

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Thursday, April 22, 2010

AoC Podcast #8- Global Warming is History

Genghis Khan and reindeer are back for a two-part video presentation on a brief history of the human species. Real brief. Drawing from Brian Fagan's work, the show seeks to demonstrate that...

A) Globlal warming is history- the climate has always been changing

B) Global warming is OUR history- changes in humans track changes in climate