Anarcho-Syndicalism: A Recipe for Ruin
Believe it or not, there are a few things worse than the state.
Keynes and the Ruling Class
The Treasury needed someone who could clothe the bareness of financial heresy with a plausible nontransparent drapery. Mr. Keynes was taken into the British Treasury as its principal adviser, seated on the board of the Bank of England, and elevated to the peerage as Baron Keynes of Tilton.
The Righteous Bosses of the New Deal
There never has been in American politics a religion so expansively and luminously righteous as the New Deal.
Economic Warfare
Pundits use the language of war and strife to depict economic relationships, but economics addresses mutual benefit, or positive-sum games.
Society of Libertarian Entrepreneurs
The SOLE has a new website! It is a really wonderful idea to create an infrastructure for this growing movement.
Environmental Protection Is a Consumption Good
If you are lost in the woods on the brink of starvation, you are less likely to look at a frog and think, “I hope that species of frog survives.”
Capitalism and the Advance of Women
No force in society empowers a woman more than the right to own property, including in her own person, and to trade freely for profit. This course celebrates the indispensable role of capitalism in the liberation of women.
Economic Freedom around the World
Will goods and resources be directed by markets or political officials? That is the great debate.
Steve Jobs: Making Lives Better Through Marketing
The excellent personal tech columnist Walter Mossberg discusses the marketing genius exhibited by Steve Jobs (who just announced his retirement) throughout his career (see video below). About Jobs and Steve Wozniak’s introduction of the Apple II, he says,
They popularized the idea of the personal computer. (…)
You think business is easy?
Then you must read this story about a New York coffee shop, and how it is an impossible proposition to try to run something like this. The story doesn’t even go into taxes and employment mandates. It’s a wonder that any business exists at all. And so what do we do toward the entrepreneurial class? We hate them, blame them for all the world’s problems, attack them as parasites and vultures, and try to drive them into further nonexistence.
