Tag archives for Christophe Cieters
Monopoly Money
Written by Christophe Cieters. As money developed and people opted to place it in secured storage, banks started issuing bank notes which represented a client’s deposit at the bank and…
Money: Rain Check
Written by Christophe Cieters. During the 14th century Renaissance in Northern Italy, banks as we know them today started to form in earnest. Gold and silver were still the dominant…
Money: Keep the Change
Written by Christophe Cieters. Let’s say a farmer has a few cows. After a hard day in the field, he feels like getting a drink at the local tavern to…
What’s In a Name
Written by Christophe Cieters. Curiously, there are no Western socialists marching in the streets to give their own property away to starvation-stricken Africans that happen to live outside the arbitrary…
Shooting the Messenger
Written by Christophe Cieters. Of course, nobody would deny that “it is true enough that a termination of the State’s current practice of providing public goods would imply some change…
Cloak and Dagger
Written by Christophe Cieters. The State is “nothing but men acting in concert”. The grounds for justification of State action can only be “the same principles which differentiate the proper…
For What It’s Worth
Written by Christophe Cieters. Not only is the moral and factual basis for public goods theory - and the supposed justification of State intervention and its inherent coercion - totally…