The Meaning of Competition
It is disturbingly easy for arguments originally employed on behalf of the free market to be turned against it. In this article I hope to redeem the concept of competition.
Historic Preservation vs. Private-Property Rights
The abrupt disruption of the market process, in the name of historic preservation, only reinforces the collective nature of American property ownership, minimizes human achievement, and encourages disputes.
The Market in Used Human Body Parts
[Free Market, 1988]
In the March 1988 issue of The Free Market, Dr. Walter Block makes a solid case for a free market in human body parts. I agree with Dr. Block’s analysis of the problems caused by governmental intervention into the market for used human body parts, and offer the following as an extension of that analysis.
Our Federal Government
In every age of the world, the few have found means to steal power from the many. But in our government, if it be indeed a consolidated one, such a result is absolutely inevitable.
Looting in Las Vegas
The common thief has the decency to leave you alone after he takes your money. But, society’s biggest thief, government, steals money, calling it taxation, and then lurks in the shadows to tell its victims what to do, calling it regulation. And, in Las Vegas the government goes one step further, it taxes, it regulates and then competes head to head with private enterprise in the city’s largest industry, tourism.
The Venetian Hotel’s Sidewalk
Can there be a right to freedom of speech without that right being firmly based on property rights?
Rothbard and the Nature of the State
What is that “organization” that claims the monopoly of violence? In other words, what is the state apparatus? We begin to find an answer in Rothbard’s analysis of the behavior of states.
Trust Us: Social Security Works
Economic theory is to many on the Left nothing more than a constant rephrasing of the old Marxist canards condemning business, coupled with the most childlike faith in the power of government bureaucrats.
The Trouble with Reform
Good market outcomes occur because exchange is voluntary, consumers are sovereign, property rights are protected, and there are strong incentives to minimize costs. This contrasts with public education.
Fifty Links to Our Healthcare Future?
Why did efforts to centralize healthcare fail in the early 1990s but succeed today? Baby boomers are now older, grayer, and scared out of their wits by the economic crisis’s effect on their retirement.
