Entrepreneurship

At $3 a pop, these little things seem like a rip-off. Yet consumers keep buying under the right conditions: mostly sports events for kids. What's more, competition isn't pushing the price down. Let us see how this all makes sense from an economic point of view.

Patents are one of many driving forces behind rising medical costs. It is not just MRI machines.

The basic logic of Jane Jacobs’s work must lead an attentive reader inexorably to a libertarian view of human social relations.

I use the term "liberal" without irony or contempt, for the liberal tradition in the true sense was devoted to freeing people from the shackles of the state.

For instance, Ayn Rand was a passionate smoker. None of the principle characters in <i>Atlas Shrugged: Part I</i> smokes.

I happened to sit down next to a man last week who has been my benefactor for my entire life and the large part of his, and yet we had never met.

I happened to sit down next to a man last week who has been my benefactor for my entire life and the large part of his, and yet we had never met. In fact, though he has been serving me faithfully for three decades, looking after my well-being and trying to improve my standard of living, he didn't even know my name.

My mom's secret was that no matter what task she tackled, she worked very fast.