Hans-Hermann Hoppe explains the neglected role of insurance in a free market economy. Any insurance involves the pooling of individual risks by the market, a task the state can only distort.
When people consider the question of how society should be organized, there is a tendency to portray issues in terms of false alternatives.
Jeffrey Tucker interviews Robert Karl Mertin at the Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama, January 11, 2006.
Paul Poenicke, a student from my honors seminar on Spontaneous Order, sent me this Slate article
From the Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 27, April 1961.
