Jane Jacobs: Libertarian Outsider
The basic logic of Jane Jacobs’s work must lead an attentive reader inexorably to a libertarian view of human social relations.
The Budget Mess: Time to Get Serious
The recently announced spending cuts are, in fact, less than 1 percent of federal spending, a token sum that does nothing to fix the long-term budget situation.
The Inside-Out World of Home Mortgages
With 25% more to fall, and many houses under water by thousands of dollars, or hundreds of thousands, what’s the incentive to pay? If a borrower wants to work out a compromise in good faith, how can they know if they are negotiating with the right party? The mortgage mess is a house of mirrors.
“Socially Conscious” Literature
Please Vote for Me
Support is bought and sold. Assistants change sides. There are lies, betrayal, and bribery.
No State, No Problem
It has been a year today since Yves Leterme, Belgium’s caretaker prime minister abandoned his attempt to form a government but the country does not appear any closer to an end nor does it appear necessary.
Mises’s Gift of Human Action
Human Action is not just about epistemology, economic history, and philosophy.
America’s Will to War: The Turning Point
The major cause of the transformation from freedom to servitude has been America’s involvement in war and preparation for war.
FDR and the Collectivist Wave
In granting official diplomatic recognition to the Soviet Union in November 1933 Franklin Roosevelt was “unintentionally,” of course, returning to the traditions of American foreign policy.
Cordato and Kirzner on Intellectual Property
I’ve noted before the views of Austrians such as Mises, Hayek, and Rothbard on IP.1 They would be placed in phase 3 of The Four Historical Phases of IP Abolitionism.
