Philosophy and Methodology

Michael Rozeff explains ways in which power comes to work its evil. A ruler is never as careful with public money as with his own.

There are many enemies of a free society. Some, like Ronald Coase, call themselves libertarians or free enterprisers. Block’s main critique of Coase is that Ronald Coase denies any private property rights. Coase deals with externalities through taxes only, but not with property rights at all.

Block says he was a pinko commie type at 22 who believed that laissez-faire capitalism would result in mass starvation. Then, he met Ayn Rand and read Atlas Shrugged and Economics in One Lesson. Block says libertarianism is the non-aggression principle. Keep your mitts to yourself.

Block continues to parse all of the cases of libertarianism found in his book, Defending the Undefendable. Privatization solves the tragedy of the commons scenarios. Rent control resulted in nobody building residential units.

In addition to his rejection of the Misesean/Rothbardian critique of t

The Huntsville Times was prompted by Bill Gates’s good comments on education to interview others on the topic, and I was among them.

Lew Rockwell writes on how to square universal rights with radical decentralism in politics and globalization in economics.

The offering which the most prominent leader of the younger generation of the historical school has made to the founder and head of that school, Wi

J. Patrick Gunning Professor Caldwell on Ludwig von Mises’ Methodology Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in

Étienne de la Boétie's discourse is lucidly and coherently structured around a single axiom, a single percipient insight into the nature not only of tyranny, but implicitly of the State apparatus itself.