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David Gordon

 Nicholas Wolterstorff assails a vastly influential school of thought in a way that libertarians will find useful.

Claude Frédéric Bastiat

Will anyone undertake to affirm that fire has become a greater evil since the introduction of insurance?

Robert Higgs

A business-hostile administration will provoke more apprehension than a business-friendlier administration.

Claude Frédéric Bastiat

A magnificent canal united two large towns in China. The emperor thought fit to order enormous blocks of stone to be thrown in to render it useless.

John P. Cochran

Mainstream economists opposed to broadly discretionary monetary policy favor rules to restrain central bankers, but can central banking be restrained?

Timothy D. Terrell

The author's intention to promote private enterprise in space is appreciated, but The Privatization of Space Exploration falls short in places. 

Murray N. Rothbard

The Dutch West India Company began operations in 1623, and in the same year the first party of permanent Dutch settlers landed in Manhattan.

George Reisman

In a society in which economic law was widely understood, those who sought to prevent price gouging would be regarded as public enemies.

Murray N. Rothbard

Marx desperately sought a materialistic dialectic of history that would account for all  historical change and lead inevitably to communist revolution.

Adam Knott

 One of the fundamental pillars of Hayekian social thought is Friedrich Hayek's contention that study of the market cannot be a priori.