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Although Adam Smith is well-known for emphasizing division of labor, his analysis was woefully incomplete, as Dr. Mark Thornton points out.
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Politics
The Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution was supposed to affirm the sovereignty of individual states. However, after years of centralization, that amendment has...
Politics
“It is legitimate to use violence against criminals in defense of one’s rights of person and property; it is completely impermissible to violate the...
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Claiming immigration as a right conflicts with the property rights of others.
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Can silver be called a Giffen Good? Probably not, although that fact doesn’t discourage some from looking for the equivalent of a unicorn in...
Politics
Gold’s price dropped from close to $5,600 to less than $4,500 on Monday. Silver plunged 31.4% on Friday alone.
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The market regulates accidents very effectively. If the state does not coercively interfere, competition between companies forces them to improve services to the maximum.
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Mark Thornton presents a timely interview with Elijah K. Johnson that underscores how quickly “melt-ups” can flip into sharp corrections.
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In most nations of any size, sectionalism is almost inevitable. How nations handle such divisions, historian Frank L. Owsley, determines if sectionalism is peaceful...
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Will the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) succeed? If the regulatory story of DDT is a prime example of government regulation in action, then...
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There is no reason to be surprised by the total lack of commitment to any ideological standards. Nor is there any reason to expect...
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One of the Austrian arguments against using mathematics to model economic phenomena is that there are no constants in economics, as things always are...
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Thanks to the Federal Reserve, the US government will always have enough printed money to fund it tyrannical schemes.