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Inflation, in case we've forgotten, is robbery by another name.

But so far, the debate has focused on the natural-science question of whether global warming is actually occurring, and, if so, what its cause is. Here is where the popular understanding is very much in need of correction.

Notwithstanding the official press release and subsequent media coverage, the goal of mechanism design is, generally speaking, to study how best to harness markets.

The existence of a libertarian majority among the American Revolutionaries and in 19th-century England demonstrates that the feat is not impossible.

We were now not only looking for an isolationist movement; we were looking for an anti-imperialist movement, a movement that zeroed in on the American Empire as the great threat to the peace…

In conclusion, inflation wreaks havoc on the structure of capital. It does so not only through the intertemporal misallocation of resources that takes place when the interest rate no longer reflects the social rate of time preference, but inflation also wrecks the existing structure of capital by introducing unpredictability into entrepreneurs' plans that rest on predictable exchange rates.

The only question is this: by which proposed means will the government lead the market into the last stage of the theory, central planning.

Mises's radical views meant that he could never be a conventional conservative, though he was quite capable of alliance with rightwing governments to advance the cause of economic liberty.

The law of marginal utility does not deal primarily with the value of things, but with the value of the services a man expects to get from them.

[Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement. By Brian Doherty.