Philosophy and Methodology

Bob Murphy and Titus Gebel discuss how "Free Private Cities" differ from other types of abstract libertarian theorizing.

"It may well be, that is, that the Bolsheviks had never had the slightest idea of what their aims would mean concretely for the economic life of Russia, how those aims would of necessity have to be implemented, or what the consequences would be."

Bodily integrity and self-ownership supplement each other: they do not compete for our allegiance.

Jeff Deist speaks at the 2019 Supporters Summit in Los Angeles, California.

David Gordon speaks at the 2019 Supporters Summit in Los Angeles, California.

The economist’s task is not to demonstrate (empirically) that x is associated with y, but to provide a causal explanation of how x affects y.

Bob Murphy asks a series of tough (but fair, he hopes) questions for conservatives, ranging from tariffs to impeachment to drug prohibition.

The previously unexplored evidence presented here confirms that Keynes advocated a consistent form of non-Marxist socialism from no later than 1907 until his death in 1946.

There are two clear and present dangers to liberty. One is known as the Left, and the other is the Right. They seek to use government to mold society into a form they seek, rather than the form that liberty achieves if society is left on its own.

According to the usual justification for government regulation of externalities,almost everything we do is ripe for regulation. Even worse, regulators never admit their prohibitions prevent an incalculable number of positive externalities.