History is not an inevitable march upward, as concluded in the 1830s. That determinist view put the stamp of approval on everything past and present. It permeates economic history. It ignores the great moral choices. History is a race between state power and social power.
“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark,” the officer Marcellus claims in Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
Kwame Antony Appiah, in a piece for the NYT Mag designed to be the 
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Hans Hoppe explains why cities exist and how governments destroy them through interventionist politics.
Throughout human history there have been those who deny free will and personal responsibility, instead blaming their wrong-doings on interventions divine and planetary.
Freakonomics (William Morrow, 2005) by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J.
The marketplace is a wonderful place, writes Chris Westley, except when it's MarketPlace, that public radio program that airs mornings and evenings.
Recorded at the Mises Institute, 7–8 October 2005.
