Philosophy and Methodology

My article “Shareholder, not Stakeholder,” which argued against the

The American government today, drawing from the largest economy in the world, has far more scope and power to wreak havoc on voluntary exchange across borders, with the prohibition of trade with Cuba entering its forty-fourth year of futile immiseration.

The New York Times must have a guilty conscience about the continuous distortions of the news that appear in its pages.

Daniel Kahneman (the psychologist who won the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 2002) and Jonathan Renshon

The founders of social movements and schools of thought often try to distance themselves from their followers.

This is a fascinating review of Rothb

The evidence is only that jobholders and jobseekers are alike subject to a law which nature, perhaps unfortunately, has made universal. Like all the rest of us, they tend always to satisfy their needs and desires with the least possible exertion.

Either libertarians would have to painfully make their way to developing an interest in history, current affairs, economics, political philosophy — in short, the real world, or else they would have to descend into a blissful silence (blissful that is, for the rest of us.)

The second noticeable consequence of the state's activity in everybody's business but its own is that its own business is monstrously neglected.

I’m sick of our economic whiners and their tear-stained statistics.