Other Schools of Thought

Enemies of laissez faire wish to saddle it with much unsavory baggage.

Stephen Halbrook’s new book on gun control in Nazi Germany details the step-by-step process of disarming the German population.

Thomas Piketty’s theoretical case is weak, but his supporters say, “look at all this data. The data, however, is often iffy at best and outlandish at worst.  
 

Peter Klein talks about inequality—how people are different, what determines income and wealth on the free market, why elites are so excited about Thomas Piketty's new book on capital, and how attempts to reduce aggregate inequality through progressive taxation are fraught with difficulty.

Thomas Piketty has written a popular economics book and serves up the same short-sighted, destructive policies.

There’s austerity in France, but it’s only austerity for the people while the state feasts on ever-increasing taxes.

Recent research has shown that the United States government functions to benefit wealthy interests while ignoring the average citizen.

Mainstream economics often invokes vague and unquantifiable concepts like animal spirits to explain how economies work.

Rifkin misses the mark because he ignores Menger’s theory of value and the role of the entrepreneur.

Having neatly dispatched Rawls, Chartier goes on to offer a strong defense of market anarchy.