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But if one believes, as the present author does, that the fundamental paradigms of modern, 20th-century philosophy and the social sciences have been grievously flawed and fallacious from the very beginning, including the aping of the physical sciences, then one is justified in a call for a radical and fundamental reconstruction of all these disciplines, and the opening up of the current specialized bureaucracies in the social sciences to a total critique of their assumptions and procedures.

Wall Street — especially since this financial crisis began — has been anything but a bastion of laissez-faire capitalism.

The Fed has essentially created the biggest shipment of currency ever, but the crippled banking system hasn't yet delivered it to our prison camp. When it arrives, it might be handy to have some spare smokes around to trade with.

On the other hand, a social order weakens these forces when it promises that if the individual's work is hindered by illness or the effects of a trauma, he shall live without work or with little work and suffer no very noticeable reduction in his income.

Only these four steps, although drastic, will restore a fully free market in medical provision.

To support his view that a market economy can effectively wage modern war, Mises advances a surprising claim about the early part of World War II.

While mining doesn't have much impact on the gold price, the reverse is not true: the gold price has significant influence on the mining industry.

The right path to healthcare reform is the market path (no subsidies, no monopolies such as drug patents, no licensure, no anything) that tends toward universal distribution at very low prices and relentless improvement in service. The wrong path is to make healthcare run the same way as the post office.

At no point in his speech did Mr. Dudley raise the possibility that the main source of asset bubbles could be the US central bank itself.

Prices and wages as determined in a free market, unrigged by political intervention, are the best means of insuring the production and equitable distribution of the goods and services all men seek.