Philosophy and Methodology
The “Rights” of Animals
The fact that animals can obviously not petition for their "rights" is part of their nature, and part of the reason why they are clearly not equivalent to, and do not possess the rights of, human beings.
Is Intellectual Property the Key to Success?
But what you are not permitted to do in a free market is use violence in the attempt to create an artificial scarcity, which is all that IP legislation really does.
Whiny Journalists
There’s a brand of whiny, journalists who use nostalgia to attack the affluence that capitalism has bestowed on us.
Property Rights and the Theory of Contracts
[This article is taken from chapter 19 of The Ethics of Liberty.
Economic Lessons from the Amish
Economic freedom in fact reduces unemployment to levels significantly below those in less free countries. The Amish may hold the secret to full employment, but rejection of modern capitalism is full employment in poverty and hardship, not the rich fruits of progress.
John Galt Lacks Appropriate Neural Firing
From the University of Oregon comes this: A psychologist and two ec