Shakespeare: The Ultimate Market Product
The Bard could have been the greatest literary success to never happen had it not been for early-18th-century booksellers.
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The Economics of War
Interventionism generates economic nationalism, which in turn generates bellicosity. Only laissez-faire policies are consistent with durable peace.
Economic Law vs. Occupy Wall Street
The protestors probably should have stayed in class, because their open letter to the professor betrays a formidable level of economic ignorance.
Smashing Protectionist “Theory” (Again)
The sheaf of protectionist arguments, many plausible at first glance, are really a tissue of egregious fallacies.
State of Incarceration: Spontaneous Order behind Bars
The Mexican Mafia has become a state, with a monopoly of violence and coercion over a geographical area.
The Rich Aren’t Dispossessing the Rest
If we consider individual people instead of statistical categories, we must reject the leftists' conclusion that the rich are increasingly dispossessing the rest.
Order vs. Organization
We are enamored of order; this passion runs through all of mankind, from the housewife to Einstein.
Shadow Labor
Shadow work is any work we do that we aren't directly compensated for. What its critics miss is that this shadow work is one of the effects of inflation, along with the government's ongoing effort to prop up the cost of labor with regulations and the minimum wage.
Why Is There a Euro Crisis?
Today's banks are not free-market institutions. They live in a symbiosis with governments that they are financing.
