Price Fixing in Ancient Rome
State intervention and a crushing fiscal policy made the whole empire groan under the yoke; more than once, both poor men and rich prayed that the barbarians would deliver them from it.
Interventionism
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The Difference Between Regulated Markets and Free Markets
What exchanges take place, and which do not, is affected by how markets are regulated. Black markets and regulated markets have different outcomes than free markets.
Greta Thunberg To Poor Countries: Drop Dead
It appears many Indians and Brazilians and Chinese are willing to risk the global warming for a chance at experiencing even a small piece of what wealthy first-world climate activists have been enjoying all their lives.
Europe’s Economy Is Stagnating, Environmentalist Policies Are Big Reason Why
Europe is seeing the dangers of allowing demagogy to dictate energy policy.
Hazlitt in One Lesson with Walter Block
Professor Walter Block joins Jeff Deist for a fantastic in-depth discussion of Henry Hazlitt and his work.
Economic Nationalism Is a Philosophy of War
What is needed to make peace durable is a change in ideologies. What generates war is the economic philosophy almost universally espoused today by governments and political parties.
The Freedom to Reject the “Best”
A central benefit of the marketplace is the ability to choose the products and services that the "experts" tell us are not "the best."
From God or the Sword?
Any profitable inquiry into the character of the American State must therefore take into account the distinction between making a living by production and gaining a living by predation; that is, between economics and politics.
