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One of the important points made by Carl Menger in his 1871 Principles is that people ordinally rank their preferences, valuing some things more...
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Now threatening citizens for what they post online, one would hardly believe that England had once possessed a hard-won tradition of limited government and...
The gold standard hampers the growth of government power, which helps people more effectively fight bad policy.
By misusing statistics, the government claims that racial disparities are always caused by racial discrimination and that these disparities can only be rectified by...
Bob discusses common talking points that pro-free-trade economists often use when making the case against tariffs.
One of the important points made by Carl Menger in his 1871 Principles is that people ordinally rank their preferences, valuing some things more...
Long before there was Alan Greenspan to turn the Federal Reserve into Casino Central, there was John Law, France’s minister of finance more than...
While F.A. Hayek contributed much to the Austrian School of Economics, he also supported the establishment of the welfare state, believing that it was...
When people speak of “old school economics,” they generally mean the application of economic thinking that involves what we might call “common sense.” That...
Thanks to increasingly broad car-seat laws, a third child often requires the purchase of a larger, more expensive vehicle. At the margins, this has...
Regulators with the European Union want people to believe that the “dead hand” of government regulation actually enhances competition. The only thing their actions...
No interventionist government or central bank wants lower prices because inflation allows the government to increase its power while slowly breaching its monetary commitments.
Republicans today are decrying the “lawfare” that Democrats are using against them, and rightly so. However, had Republicans not vastly expanded federal criminal law...
In this review of Scott Horton’s new book, Enough Already, we see that the wars the US has raged for the past quarter century...
Does bad money drive out good money? Mark Thornton discusses one of the most impactful principles of modern society.