Set Kids Free to Work
Old folks are working and teenagers are laying around doing nothing. It didn’t used to be this way. Kids used to find a job as soon as they had the desire for two very important things: get out of the house and get money in their hands.
Why Religious People Struggle with Economics
Let’s say that Jesus had not offered salvation to all but instead had restricted the number of units of salvation to exactly 1,000.
Where Is QE2 Taking Us?
Five months into the second round of quantitative easing — “QE2” — it is useful to take stock of what it has, and has not, accomplished. QE2 has begun to deliver on all the dangers of which the critics warned, but not the alleged benefits.
Pushing Buttons Like the Jetsons
The show was neither utopian nor dystopian. It was the best of life as we know it projected far into the future.
A Dollar as Good as Gold
The gold standard would terminate the world dollar standard by prohibiting official dollar reserves and the special access of the government and the financial class to limitless cheap Fed and foreign credit. It is an essential step toward stability.
The Peaceful Resistance
The long-term case for optimism is all about the astonishing expansion of the division of labor globally.
Menger’s Discovery of the Self
Menger went on to accomplish a radical break with tradition: a thoroughly individualistic view of humanity and of the world.
The Genius of Wanamaker
The article today on John Wanamaker further confirms my thinking that How They Succeeded is one of the best books that the Mises Institute has ever published, simply because it chronicles the lives of the most successful men and women from the Gilded Age – the actual “greatest generation.” These people have so much to teach us.
Retributive Ethics
I highly recommend Terrance Tomkow’s Retributive Ethics to anyone interested in new approaches to ethics. Tomkow discusses with great insight a number of issues central to libertarianism, including self-defense and property rights. He holds that we have no positive moral duties and on this basis assails Peter Singer’s influential contention that we ought to donate substantial parts of our income to relieve world poverty.
