Ryan Ford says he is glad to do the work others are unwilling to do at the going market wage. When one looks at the grocery workers who are striking for higher pay, their tactics and principles, he asks: is this consistent with freedom? Is this what free and fair trade is? To use coercion to force others to trade under your conditions is folly.

Unimagined Power: The Presidency in the History of Political Philosophy

Tags: Philosophy and Methodology, Political Theory, Big Government

03/01/2004 Paul Gottfried

Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004.

The Utopianism of Marx and Keynes

Tags: Calculation and Knowledge, Other Schools of Thought, Philosophy and Methodology, Political Theory, World History

03/01/2004 Jeffrey M. Herbener

Recorded at Mises University 2003.

The Sociology of Panics and Crashes in American History

Tags: Philosophy and Methodology, Praxeology, Booms and Busts, Media and Culture

03/01/2004 Joseph R. Stromberg

Boom, Bust, and the Future (19:39) January 18-19, 2002

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