Political Theory

Aeon Skoble's excellent book poses a fundamental challenge to minimal-state libertarians. All libertarians take freedom to be the highest political value and oppose coercion. 

The works of Leonard E. Read, who founded the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) in 1946, are now online at the Mises Institute.

Paul Samuelson is the one who laid the theoretical foundation for this systemic anarchy. Milton Friedman then provided the emperor's new clothes, dressing it in the garb of neoliberalism. That is how these two leading figures in American economic thought were united in unleashing on the world community the system that has now collapsed.

The main error of widespread pessimism is the belief that the destructionist ideas and policies of our age sprang from the proletarians and are a &

To the common sense of these women a program of low prices will make a strong appeal.

I’ve always been perplexed by the dichotomy that often divides people’s avowed beliefs and their actions.

No one wanted to hear the message that voting by itself produces nothing, and that force by itself wastes resources and "produces" less and less.

Economic depression is good for the state. Even if the state knew how to end it, why would we suppose that it has the incentive to do so?

"Public estimation of eminence runs in reverse ratio to its genuineness," writes Mencken, anticipating Obama, "the sort of eminence that the mob esteems most highly is precisely the sort that has least grounding in solid worth and honest accomplishment."

The government can prevent market forces from operating by channeling resources into artificial channels.