Praxeology and Liberalism
What the liberals maintain is that the immense majority prefer a life of health and abundance to misery, starvation, and death.
Soak the Rich?
From the Buffett Rule to France’s 75% tax on the wealthy, “soaking the rich” is all the rage once again.
Action, Time, and the Market
Endowed with reason, man can perceive the causal connection between the use of means and the attainment of ends.
God Protect Us from Metaphors
[Included in The Bastiat Collection (2011), this article appeared in Economic Sophisms (1845).]
A fallacy sometimes expands, and runs through the whole texture of a long and elaborate theory. More frequently, it shrinks and contracts, assumes the guise of a principle, and lurks in a word or a phrase.
Human Labor and National Labor
We see men who clap their hands when a great invention is introduced, and who nevertheless adhere to protectionism. Such men are grossly inconsistent!
A Small Step Forward in Ending the Irrational War on Drugs
My colleague at Metro State, Alex Padilla, provides solid commentary (on-line Denver Post) on a Colorado ballot issue, amendment 64, to decriminalize marijuana in Colorado.
Ancient Spartan Communism
A state that is at war, or that is perpetually organized for war, dare not tolerate individual liberties.
The Legacy of Cesar Chavez
The real legacy of Cesar Chavez is negative: forget the charisma and the hype and learn some economics.
Heterogenous Capital: 9 October, 2012
Robert Murphy on Krugman and iPhone 5 in The American Conservative. Check out all the Keynesian and Monetarist objections in the comments. Even a TAC columnist weighed in to defend government stimulus.
National Independence
“What should we do in case of war,” it is said, “if we are placed at the mercy of England for iron and coal?”
