The Tyranny of the Cultural Curators
“They are not spotless children living in some never-never land of innocence and eternal stasis. They are thinking, calculating humans who would like a bit of material progress.”
The state is at its most arrogant when it tries to protect us from ourselves. And there is perhaps no group of people subjected to a more absurd policy of state “protection” than the Jarawa tribe of India. They are confined to a reserve and forbidden to interact with outsiders, ostensibly for their own good.
The Formation of New Netherland
The Dutch West India Company had many valuable and important interests, of which the colony of New Netherland was one of the least valued.
The Theory of Land Ownership
“It must be added that the theory of land ownership in a free society set forth here, i.e., first ownership by the first user, has nothing in common with another superficially similar theory of land ownership—advanced by J.K. Ingalls and his disciples in the late nineteenth century. Ingalls advocated continuing ownership only for actual occupiers and personal users of the land. This is in contrast to original ownership by the first user.”
You Didn’t Build That
Contra President Obama, society and government are very different, and in many ways their interests are directly opposed.
Unilateral Free Trade
The only international economic policy that a country needs is to mind its own business and set a good example to the rest of the world.
An Open Letter to Warren Buffett
Do you know the meaning of the words you use?
Virtual Mises University
You can enroll in Virtual Mises University, and partake in the intellectual feast over the Internet.
Marx and Inevitability
[This article is excerpted from volume 2, chapter 10 of An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (1995). An MP3 audio file of this chapter, narrated by Jeff Riggenbach, is available for download.]
The Restoration and the Navigation Acts
One of the most far-reaching actions of the Restoration was a series of Navigation Acts, by which England imposed mercantilist restrictions on its empire.
