Clamping Down on the Joneses
Economist Robert Frank thinks "keeping up with the Joneses" is socially harmful. He wants to rein in and clamp down on all the "Joneses" in the world.
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The Rise of the Fisheries and the Merchants
Attempts of the government to subsidize the beginning of fisheries also proved fruitless.
Hyperinflation Is Not Inevitable (Default Is)
The US government cannot use hyperinflation to escape the the promises it made to retirees.
Industry Is an Effort Followed by a Result
Perfectibility is the progressive diminution of effort compared with the result.
Respect Indigenous Property Rights
Property means autonomy. Authentic owners of private property are in it for the long run.
How Prices Are Determined
Two questions as we go to the marketplace: whether or not to exchange, and if so, on what terms.
Buy Team America?
"Buy American" is invoked to justify one group of citizens beggaring another.
Drugstore Education
One cannot help remarking points of resemblance here between the newest type of educational organization and the newest type of drugstore.
What We Can Learn from a Great Scholar
No reader of these essays can fail to note one respect in which Leland Yeager resembles two quintessential Austrian economists, Mises and Rothbard.
