Political Theory

Salaried jobs provide opportunities and flexibility. Government regulators want to take those options away.

Un-elected federal bureaucrats have taken extraordinary steps to hobble state efforts to legalize marijuana.

Why the huge price increases associated with the ACA? Obamacare has too much risk and too little population of healthy individuals to bear the cost.

Thanks to government meddling, we all pay more for sugar to benefit a few powerful interest groups.

Monopolies and cartels are creations of government, not markets.

Iceland's populist left-anarchist/libertarian/hacker Pirate party just shook up the corrupt political establishment in Iceland.

Free lunches are not really free, even to those who vote for them. There are other reasons to vote against getting "free stuff," too.

The OECD has updated it's income measures, and we find that many European welfare states still rank among the lowest-income US states.

Unilateral free trade is not some utopian libertarian ideal. It is a real-world policy that has been used and which reaps economic rewards.

Deirdre McCloskey contends that ideas — not capital accumulation or material resources — have caused widespread economic development.