The Grand Bazaar in Istanbul has been a beehive of mutually beneficial exchanges for 550 years. Price tags are rare at the Grand Bazaar. Show any interest in an item at one of the 4,300 shops in the bazaar and the proprietor or store employee will engage you immediately.
It all started on a bus heading from Madrid to Salamanca.
If you give government a job to do, even one that seems justified in the abstract, it will use its power to make a terrible mess in practice.
The gold standard is more politically relevant than it has been in decades — so now the falsehoods spread.
Milk in its natural state — raw milk — is consumed by very few Americans, because it is illegal in many states and thoroughly discouraged by federal health organizations, regulators, and the Big Dairy lobby. Its dangers are minimal, and those are due to its prohibition.
It's now considered too radical to believe that people should just throw unwanted items away. To allow people to do this is "going too far." But here is a fact: forcing people to spend time separating garbage turns the division of labor on its head.
Combining Misesian praxeology with Rothbardian insights, Hoppe has developed a magnificent, integrated edifice of rational thought.
