Libertarian Paternalism
David Gordon reviews Nudge, co-written by Richard Thaler, who was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in economics.
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George Orwell and the Cold War: A Reconsideration
What Garet Garrett called a "complex of vaunting and fear" has been the hallmark of the American Empire, and previous empires.
Foreign Capital Investment: The Antidote to Global Inequality
Foreign investment and free trade are the keys to rapidly increasing a government's wealth. Unfortunately, most governments demonize both of these.
Cobden on Freedom, Peace, and Trade
Free trade cannot prevent war when men no longer believe in peace.
Hegel: The State as God’s Will
Armed with Hegelian philosophy, the modern state would take its divinely appointed stand at the height of history and civilization, as God on earth.
The Genius of Carl Menger
For Menger, economic activity is essentially just planning for the future.
Mises Explains the Drug War
Mises contends, the fact that something is a vice is no reason for suppression by way of commercial prohibitions.
The NFL Draft and the Division of Labor
The division of labor allowed Mel Kiper Jr. and Joel Buchsbaum to create a niche doing what they love: writing football draft reports.
What Caused the Irish Potato Famine?
As with most famines, it was government meddling that converted the Irish potato famine from a food-production problem into a deadly catastrophe.
Jesús Huerta de Soto on Really Existing Socialism
Socialism is utter self-serving, elite-generated nonsense and the most evil, destructive, bone-headed religion that mankind has ever invented.
