Economic Policy Matters: The Example of Botswana vs. South Africa vs. Zimbabwe
There is a very stark contrast between market-friendly Botswana, South Africa, and the statist hellhole of Zimbabwe.
Interventionism
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What Crushed the Corn Laws?
Restriction of the freedom of trade was, for members of the league, intimately connected with "landlordism" and the aristocracy.
The Fateful Wish for Price Stability
Price stability is a scheme dreamed up by central bankers and other interventionists in an effort to circumvent markets.
What Caused the Irish Potato Famine?
Was the Potato Famine an ecological accident, as historians usually say, or a politically created one?
How Markets Foster Human Cooperation
Only human beings know how to overcome irreconcilable, nature-given conflicts: by embarking upon cooperation.
Gustave de Molinari and The Anti-statist Liberal Tradition, Part 3
Molinari believed that if the market were given a chance to operate free from the restrictions of the state, it would satisfy all means voluntarily.
Consumer Sovereignty Is a Problem For Government “Stimulus” Plans
Government stimulus plans can't take into account dynamic factors like entrepreneurial innovation and consumer preferences.
Our Interests and Their Interests
Mises formed a highly sophisticated theory of classes and of class conflict by distinguishing sharply between the market and the state.
Gustave de Molinari and The Anti-statist Liberal Tradition, Part 2
Molinari's most original contribution to political and economic thought is his thesis that the market can provide the service of police protection.
Trump’s Solar Tariffs Are Bad, but so Are Solar Subsidies
The U.S. firms that are the direct “losers” of the new solar tariffs have benefited for years from favorable tax treatment.
