The Best Work of Its Kind Since Rothbard’s For a New Liberty
"Huebert succinctly and accurately explains that applying libertarian principles to foreign affairs leads to a policy of peace and nonintervention."
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Venus Needs Some Austrians
The socialist dreamers of the Venus Project imagine a future society of incredible abundance. Robert Murphy explains that our world could become as wealthy as they say, but only through the defense of private property.
What You’re Not Supposed to Know about War
These conservatives think they are "defending freedom" by supporting every military adventure that the state concocts. They are not.
Rothbard’s Memos Marked “Strictly Confidential”
Rothbard maintains that one cannot consistently combine libertarian economic policies with international belligerence.
The Problems of External Costs and External Economies
Alleged deficiencies could be removed by a reform of the laws concerning liability for damages inflicted and by rescinding the institutional barriers preventing the full operation of private ownership.
Revisit Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 acknowledges that powerful impulses toward mindless conformity and suppression of deviation exist in the population itself — that, on a deep level, many, many people want to be "protected" by the state from the risk of being offended and from the necessity of thinking for themselves.
The Law of Final Utility
In the conviction of the inadequacy of the classical political economy, the Austrian economists and the adherents of the historical school agree. But in regard to the final cause of the inadequacy, there is a fundamental difference of opinion that has led to a lively contention over methods.
English Absolutism and the Great Chain of Being
"And therefore whosoever rebelleth against any ruler either good or bad, rebelleth against GOD, and shall be sure of a wretched end."
Caesar III and the Ubiquitous Failure of Central Planning
"This is firsthand experience of the truth of Mises's argument against socialism: that without market prices for factors of production, there is no intelligent or rational way to organize society."
Goods, Scarce and Nonscarce
Nonscarce goods are a great gift courtesy of the structure of the world, a boon to humankind, a vast treasure of resources—tools for making the world a relentlessly better place.
