Should the IRS Audit More Taxpayers?
Currently, the IRS only audits a tiny fraction of the tax returns filed each year, writes George Leef. That’s a good thing.
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Don’t Let the Planners Take Charge of Energy
Well, the Republicans have some ideas for reducing the price of gasoline.
Praxeological Economics and Mathematical Economics
Austrian economics is the economics of people viewed as creative, intelligent agents, writes Gene Callahan.
Times Are Hard: On the Causes of the Business Cycle
It's been said that the Fed's job is to take away the punch bowl once the party gets going. But Gene Callahan writes the Fed had filled it in the first place.
The Organization of Debt into Currency: On the Monetary Thought of Charles Holt Carroll
Charles Holt Carroll defended sound money in a blazing series of essays appearing in the latter decades of the 19th century. They are collected in the book, Organization of Debt into Currency and Other Papers--newly online.
Republicans Target “Economic Crimes”
As in Soviet times, oil company executives are to be investigated and prosecuted for charging the price the market would bear, writes William Anderson.
Sowing the Seeds of the Next Crisis
Thorsten Polleit warns that one should not get carried away by wide spread euphoria.
A Man, a Plan, a Flop
Charles Murray, by his own account, should not have written In Our Hands. He identifies a genuine problem;
The Shaving Cream Racket
Look, I'm the last guy to trash a consumer product. I'm disinclined to blast the manufacturers of a beloved bathroom gel as deceivers who make money off people's ignorance and perpetuate the problem they are supposedly solving, or charlatans who deliberately hook people on some chemically produced gunk solely for the sake of profiting from repeated uses.
Law, Property Rights, and Air Pollution
Here is the masterful essay on property rights that represents Murray Rothbard's most advanced thought. It is probably the most seminal of all pieces on the topic that have appeared in our times.
