Philosophy and Methodology

I am the first Englishman and the first professional philosopher to receive the Schlarbaum Prize. So it seems appropriate to begin by talking about the greatest English philosopher, John Locke.

Economists of the Austrian School not only understood that markets can fail if measured by an unrealistic and unrealizable standard. Ludwig von Mises emphasized the "uncertainty inherent in every action."

Middle-class property owners of the world, disunite. You have a world to win back. Joseph Stromberg reviews Hans-Hermann Hoppe's, Democracy: The God That Failed. 

In a usual wartime situation, the government massively expands and then falls back only partially after it is over. The present circumstances, however, are even worse than wartime.

The most important book in the history of economics was first published more than two and a half centuries ago, but this brilliant work by Richard Cantillon remains a must-read for professional economists and laymen alike.  

Parents and kids should realize that learning principles of economics and business is not about propaganda-spouting: it is about logic, thinking, and problem solving.

Groupthink is a process of gradualism that seeks to gently merge the followers into a pack with leaders.

A long-out-of-print work makes the case for privatizing everything. Robert Murphy is the reviewer.

The political and ideological forces that gave rise to Bolshevism at the turn of the century are similarly inspiring the movement that looted and burned last month in Genoa.

Vigilance about co-opted semantics is vital because language mediates thoughts, actions, and hence public debate and policy.