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

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

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

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

What is economía libre? What does this system of economic freedom mean? The answer is simple: it is the market economy.

The people of Colorado and Washington voiced their opposition to the federal government's policy of marijuana prohibition.

What is ultimately desired is a return to a market-chosen money — gold or silver money, not a gold- or silver-"backed" money.

Germany was now defenseless, dependent on Wilson and the Allies keeping their word.

Marx not only sought a future society that would put an end to history: he claimed to have found the path toward that utopia.

John Kenneth Galbraith is increasingly perceived as a misunderstood thinker whose insights were ahead of their time and whose work was too hastily dismissed.