Other Schools of Thought

The triumph of crony capitalism occurred on October 3rd, 2008. The event was the enactment of TARP — the single greatest economic-policy abomination since the 1930s, or perhaps ever. It was justified as a last-resort exercise in breaking the rules to save the system.

While most people believe that our healthcare industry is one comprised of free markets, it is anything but.

What DiLorenzo offers is not a biography of Hamilton but instead a critical examination of his ideas and a historical exploration of how they have shaped American history. DiLorenzo contrasts the statist, mercantilist, and nationalist philosophy of Hamilton with the strict constitutionalism of Jefferson.

When the Civil War closed, the revenue acts that had been hastily passed during its course constituted a chaotic mass.

How many people do you know who use variations on “capitalism” to describe pretty much anything they don’t like? It’s a vice that cuts several ways.

Kropotkin is one of the half-dozen cases of anarchocommunists that are worth a second look.

Hutcheson, Hume, and Smith, while scarcely orthodox Calvinists, were dedicated Presbyterians according to their own lights, writes Murray N.

What is called economic progress is the effect of an accumulation of capital goods exceeding the increase in population, writes Ludwig von Mises (1

President Barack Obama promised recently in a <i>Wall Street Journal</i> op-ed to undertake a grand review of economic regulation in the United States and get rid of rules that "are not worth the cost, or that are just plain dumb." Yet he has added plenty of dumb regulations himself.

Try to find someone in present-day Vienna who is familiar with the exceptional work of the former finance minister of the Austrian monarchy.