Emmanuel Macron said he wanted to make France more free and more competitive. But his failed tax increase on gasoline shows just how fragile reform attempts are in France.
A “Green New Deal” makes no sense on economic grounds, either in spirit or in letter.
Let us consider the process that led to the decline and disappearance of classical Roman civilization.
In this 90-minute 1981 lecture, Walter Block discusses the importance of allowing private markets — and not government planners — to decide how land and housing is used by those who buy, sell, and rent it.
Regulation is simply the way in which self-interested public officials provide benefits to self-interested individuals who form interest groups. This is as true in land use as in anything else.
Hostilities in the North Atlantic provided the context — or rather, pretext — for America's participation.
There were three important victories related to cannabis, i.e., marijuana, legalization and only the most radical measure failed.
The Ron Paul of his era, Richard Overton, in both word and deed, was a fearless man, true to his ideals of justice, without regard for personal consequence.
The characteristic mark of economic history under capitalism is unceasing economic progress, a steady increase in the quantity of capital goods available, and a continuous trend toward an improvement in the general standard of living.
