James Champlin: An Early Advocate for Free Trade
James Champlin, a 19th-century critic of protectionism, anticipated many of the free-trade insights of the Austrian school.
Interventionism
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Public Servants: Who is Serving Whom?
Public servants on average are paid better than their private sector taxpaying counterparts. How exactly are they our "servants"?
How You Don’t Cure Poverty
From 1971, Henry Hazlitt shows how government solutions to poverty, from welfare to minimum wage laws, will never work.
Why the UK Shouldn’t Nationalise Its Steel
With another steel producer set to leave the UK, some are proposing that the UK government run the steel industry itself.
The Real Meaning of Competition
We can have a competitive marketplace if government will just get out of the way and stop erecting barriers to creating new businesses and new competitors for established companies.
We Need Separation of Bathroom and State
Private owners are perfectly capable of deciding how their bathrooms can best be used. It's not a religious matter.
How the Government is Destroying the World’s Best Oysters
Decades of government mismanagement has wreaked havoc on the Apalachicola oyster industry.
What’s So Moral About Moral Hazard?
Moral hazard is a vital concept for economics. We should be careful not to let critics trivialize or dismiss it; when they do, calls for government intervention and special privileges are seldom far behind.
The Politics of Political Economists
The pragmatist looks for areas where the economy and society fall short of the Garden of Eden, and these, of course, abound. Poverty, unemployment, old people with scurvy, young people with cavities — the list is indeed endless.
Hazlitt, 1946: Inflation, Deflation, Confusion
In his Newsweek column, Henry Hazlitt addresses inflation, deflation, and criticisms of capitalism by "democratic socialists."
