Cass Sunstein Wants to Modify Our Behavior
It appears that Mr. Sunstein wishes to regulate just about everything.
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Truth to Power
The point, once more, is not that the conservatives deployed bad arguments against the supposed extremism of Mises and Rothbard. Rather, they downgraded the role of reason as such; and this rendered ineffective their resistance to the Left.
Is Emergency Care a Failed Market?
How would truly free-market hospitals handle patients who are now free riders? There is every reason to expect that the uninsured would be treated more humanely and with greater dignity than they are in the current quasi-socialist system.
Security Without a State
The notion that only the state can provide an adequate defense is but one more statist myth — perhaps the most dangerous one of all.
Does a Liquidity Trap Pose a Threat?
Contrary to popular thinking, the threat posed to the major economies is not the liquidity trap, but the government and central bank stimulus policies aimed at countering it.
Freedom Is Indivisible
What we must think about, if we deserve to be free, is that sooner or later, as a result of its very nature, either its socialism or its democracy will have to yield.
The Afghan Disaster
The private sector can't do this, which is precisely why all the stuff that makes life worth living is produced privately, and all that the government does is slow down the progress of civilization and bring destruction and disaster wherever it goes.
Mass Unemployment in the Name of Norma Rae
"No one has ever succeeded in the effort to demonstrate that unionism could improve the conditions and raise the standard of living of all those eager to earn wages."
– Ludwig von Mises
Rothbard’s Last Triumph, Part 2
Murray Rothbard's two volumes are a monument of 20th-century scholarship.
Rousseau’s Form of Socialism
"Law for Rousseau is essentially a device whereby those in possession protect themselves against the 'have-nots.'"
