D.F. Fleming on “The Origins of the Cold War”
In the statist world in which we live there is a very real tendency to accept as fact all that the official organs of propaganda emit.
Interventionism
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Ron Paul on the Latest Anti-Russia Sanctions
From a free-market perspective, trade sanctions are always immoral and illegitimate because they restrict trade and free choice among individua
When State-Subsidized Industries Attack
The corn, sugar, and ethanol industries in the US are all part of a complex system of government subsidies and other favors, writes Dave Albin.
When State-Subsidized Industries Attack
While the state supports of industry may have seemed like gifts at the beginning, the distorted framework of the government-directed economy makes everyone worse off.
The War on Drugs Is Not Like The War on Poverty
The poverty rate is not declining, and people continue to buy and sell drugs.
Labor Unions Are Anti-Labor
Labor unions work to prevent increases in the productivity of workers, which is ultimately the only way to increase real wages, writes George Reism
Hollywood and the State: A Longtime Partnership
Not content with just the movie industry, the US government has also turned to the video game industry in more recent decades.
Review of Making Sense of Social Security Reform, by Daniel Shaviro; Is Social Security Broke? by Barbara R. Bergmann; Administrative Aspects of Investment-Based Social Security Reform, edited by John B. Shoven
The cognoscenti behind the Bush (Campaign 2000) proposal call their plan “privatization.” Privatization, as typically understood by economists, means the transfer of capital ownership and resource allocation
The Political Economy of the New Deal, by Jim F. Couch and William F. Shughart II
Couch and Shughart’s book brings together a number of public-choice studies by other authors which have appeared in various journals, but have never been formally connected to each other in a single book.
Restructuring Before Privatization — Putting the Cart Before the Horse: A Case Study of the Steel Industry in Romania
The Eastern European countries have been going through a transition phase since the liberalization of their economies with the collapse of communist regimes in the early 1990s.
