Value and Exchange

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Charles Feathestone

Lots of people are very confused about the prospect that oil reserves will dry up at some point in the future, writes Charles Featherstone.

William L. Anderson

The newest argument against Wal-Mart is that it is failing to follow the Ford Motor Co. example of increasing wages so that employees can afford the products they are producing.

Katy Harwood Delay

The dollar has hit a new low in recent months on the international currency exchange. The blame is falling from most sectors of public opinion on our legislature, writes Katy Harwood Delay, with its debt spending at an all-time high.

Robert P. Murphy

Robert Murphy concedes that it is theoretically possible that an expanded global marketplace could make one country less wealthy on net. However, there are other considerations.

Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

The average family will spend about $1000 on Christmas gifts, writes Lew Rockwell, and much of what we buy might be described as rather shoddy. Paradoxically, this is not a bad thing but a sign of rising wealth.

Wladimir Kraus

Most everyone assumes that capital exploits labor, writes Vlad Menshikov. But this point of view is completely wrong. 

Robert P. Murphy

Robert Murphy asks: what do various proposals to regulate trade all have in common? They are all attempts to prevent people from cooperating with each other.

Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

The oft-heard tale about the sad plight of labor as versus capital is almost entirely false, writes Thomas Woods, author of a new book on American history.

Gene Callahan

Many people have said that the collapse of the Soviet Union proved that Mises was correct. New research into the origins of writing, writes Gene Callahan, provides clues that allows us to formulate Mises's argument concerning calculation more precisely. 

Glen Tenney

Day in and day out, for hundreds of years, pawnbrokers have engaged in a perfectly legitimate business, write Glen Tenney.