Is The Wealth of Nations’ Third Duty of the Sovereign Compatible with Laissez Faire?
In section 1 we will discuss the property rights aspect of public works in The Wealth of Nations.
Capital and Interest Theory
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Patents and Copyrights: Do the Benefits Exceed the Costs?
Patents and copyrights are forms of immaterial “property” that grant to their owners exclusive control over the production and sale of a specified
The Enterprise of Community: Market Competition, Land, and Environment
We hear a lot of expressed concern about conserving the environment, but no one talks much about producing it.
Rawlsian Investment Rules for “Intergenerational Equity” Breaches of Method and Ethics
Harvard professor of philosophy, John Rawls, can be credited with provoking the most recent angst over the issue of intergenerational equity.
Natural Order, the State, and the Immigration Problem
In this article, Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe discusses immigration, natural order, and private property.
Volume 16, Number 1 (2002)
Political Entrepreneurship and the Economics of Wealth Destruction
Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 26 July 2014.
Common Objections to Capitalism
Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 25 July 2014.
The Time Preference Theory of Interest and Its Critics
Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 23 July 2014.
Natural Disasters Don’t Increase Economic Growth
Although Frédéric Bastiat disproved it years ago, many still believe that natural disasters increase economic growth, writes Frank Hollenbeck.
