Böhm-Bawerk Speaks Again
Ludwig van den Hauwe asks: what can we learn from a 120-year-old book on economics? Plenty.
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The Habitual Deceptions of the Political Class
We want honest government, writes Vedran Vuk, but a politician cannot help one person without first stealing from someone else.
Michael Sandel’s Case for Statism
Michael Sandel attained fame, and perhaps fortune as well, early in his academic career. Liberalism and the Limits of Justice
Government Debt Has No Upside
In order to consume in the present, writes Robert Murphy, resources must be used in the present. That goes for government too.
The Incredible Stuff Machine
So those scurvy bums at Wal-Mart are finally getting what is coming to them!
The Adam Smith Myth
In an essay that made his <a href="http://store.mises.org/Austrian-Perspective-on-the-History-of-Economic-Thought-2-volume-set-P273C0.aspx">masterpiece on the history of thought</a> famous, Murray Rothbard argues that Adam Smith should not be called the founder of economics, nor a theorist who improved on economic science, nor even a consistent defender of the market economy.
The Path to Lower Gas Prices: Free Trade
A lesser known tariff is affecting our gas market everyday, writes Robert Merting, and effectively boosts the profits enjoyed by our domestic refineries.
The Sick Used to Die
As China’s standards of living rise, writes Joseph Potts, people are facing a strange luxury: the presence of the chronically ill.
The Bureaucrat in Your Shower
You can hack your shower, writes Jeffrey Tucker, but do not do this lest you endanger your status as a law-abiding citizen who takes wimpy showers.
Must Austrians Embrace Indifference?
Robert Nozick and Bryan Caplan have blasted Austrians for rejecting the concept of indifference and then surrepticiously smuggling it back in by way of explaining marginalism. Are they right? Hans-Hermann Hoppe says, no, they are not right.
