Martial Law vs. Market Law: Reflections on Boston
If law enforcement were to be governed by contractual principles, no one would need to fear that they were letting bulls into a china shop.
Monopoly and Competition
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Land Monopoly
“There are two types of ethically invalid land titles: “feudalism,” in which there is continuing aggression by titleholders of la
Government Medical “Insurance”
Instead of solving the initial problem, the intervention creates two or three further problems, which the government feels it must intervene to hea
Plenty by Competition
If Smith is the only cobbler in town, and we are unacquainted with the workmanship of cobblers in other towns, how can we judge his skill?
Monopoly Dentistry
As Mises showed, occupational licensing must lead to a decrease in supply, monopolistic conditions, and thus a lessening of competition.
USPS: The Cursed Carriers
It's pathetic that a government-enforced monopoly continues to lose money.
Disintegration of the Fur Monopoly
Within a decade of the Puritans’ arrival in Massachusetts, the Plymouth fur trade had virtually disappeared. How did this happen?
Competition and the Economists
Later economists messed everything up: narrowing the definition of "competition" and broadening that of "monopoly."
The Example of the Strike
The problem of the influence of power on prices as such has hitherto been only scantily treated, and never in a systematic manner, in economic theory.
Who Are the Monopolists?
There is no evidence that a market system will bring about a tendency toward monopolistic growth; the state does that.
