Why This Gigantic "Intelligence" Apparatus?
Why would these hundreds of organizations and contracting companies be willing to take gigantic amounts of the taxpayers' money when everyone agrees that the money cannot be spent sensibly and that the system already in place cannot function effectively or efficiently to attain its ostensible purpose?
Why Be Libertarian?
Why be libertarian, anyway? Why engage in a deep and lifelong commitment to the principle and the goal of individual liberty?
Language as Action
Being a type of spontaneous order, it is no surprise that language is subject to the same kinds of centrally-planned disruptions as economic systems.
France’s Cul-De-Sac
British Prime Minister David Cameron, offered to “roll out the red carpet” for any high-income earning Frenchmen who wanted to avoid paying French taxes.
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Mark Thornton: Rothbard in the New Yorker
Not exactly correct on all point, but worth a read.
In fact, there is one anarchist who could be considered influential in Washington, but he wasn’t among the activists who participated in the Occupy movement—he died nearly twenty years ago. His
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Robert Higgs: Robert William Fogel (July 1, 1926 – June 11, 2013)
Robert Fogel died a few days ago. He was a prominent figure in the academic economic history profession for five decades, virtually from the time he burst onto the scene with the publication of a polished-up version of his Johns Hopkins Ph.D. di
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Mark Thornton: Japan is the Model?
Nobel Laurette Joseph Stiglitz claims here that Japan is the model for how economic policy can get the world economy out of its current malaise.
Now, though, Japan is leading the way. The recently elected prime minister, Shinzo Abe, has embarked o
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John P. Cochran: Economic History and the Austrians: The Relevance of Robert Fogel and the New Economic History
Bob Higgs provides a nice tribute to economic historian Robert Fogel, a leading economic historian and cliometrician.
In 1995 Higgs's “Austrian Economics and the New Economic History” in Austrian Economics Newsletter vol. 15, no.1, (avail
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