Interventionism

According to Karl Marx, the motor of the inevitable revolutions in history is inherent class conflict, inherent struggles between economic classes.

What we have in mind when we talk about interventionism is the government's desire to do more than prevent assaults and fraud.

If outcry is preferred to argument, let us vociferate, "King Midas has a snout, and asses' ears."

It was not the banks as such that caused the crisis but rather the boom-bust policies of the central banks of Ireland and Iceland.

Will anyone undertake to affirm that fire has become a greater evil since the introduction of insurance?

A business-hostile administration will provoke more apprehension than a business-friendlier administration.

A magnificent canal united two large towns in China. The emperor thought fit to order enormous blocks of stone to be thrown in to render it useless.

Mainstream economists opposed to broadly discretionary monetary policy favor rules to restrain central bankers, but can central banking be restrained?

The author's intention to promote private enterprise in space is appreciated, but The Privatization of Space Exploration falls short in places. 

The Dutch West India Company began operations in 1623, and in the same year the first party of permanent Dutch settlers landed in Manhattan.