Violence: How It’s Different From Market Exchange
Not all human action is truly voluntary in the marketplace. Violence can be used to distort and force a wide variety of relationship among human beings.
Interventionism
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Europe’s Unsustainable Welfare State
The EU average tax burden on workers is 44.9%. The average worker in the EU spends half a year working for the tax man. This is not sustainable.
The Conquest of the United States by Cuba
With the government-owned propaganda-spewing Radio Marti station in Miami, the US adopts socialism to fight socialism.
The NFL Draft and the Division of Labor
The division of labor allowed Mel Kiper Jr. and Joel Buchsbaum to create a niche doing what they love: writing football draft reports.
Week in Review: April 22, 2017
Instead of taxes being "the price we pay for civilization," taxes are an unnecessary burden on the prosperity of society.
Jeffrey Sachs’s Blind Spot
Jeffrey Sachs rightly sees the problems of state interventionism in foreign policy. But he then fails to see the same holds on domestic policy.
The Economist’s Duty
A 4-part condensation of chapters from Human Action dealing with various forms of government interference with the free market.
Nudges for Thee, But Not for Me
To most observers, nudging sounds like clever management techniques. The power to nudge by the state, however, is an entirely different matter.
America Is Hardly a Bastion of Free Trade
Contrary to the popular myth, the US often imposes many crippling regulations in its international trade practices. We need more trade, not less.
What Caused the Irish Potato Famine?
As with most famines, it was government meddling that converted the Irish potato famine from a food-production problem into a deadly catastrophe.
