Do Antitrust Laws Preserve Competition?
Competition is not a mode of conduct that anyone has to promote institutionally. It develops naturally and necessarily among persons who are free to pursue their own interests.
Obamacare is a Devastating Tax on the Working Class
Depending on the specific plan and other variables such as location, the healthcare plan amounts to a direct labor tax of approximately $300 per month for an individual, or nearly $700 for family coverage.
The Philosophy of Strikes
If men do not grow in their knowledge of life and in their intelligent judgment of the rules of right living as rapidly as they gain control over physical resources, they will not win happiness at all.
The Strike-Threat System
The book primarily concerns itself with the economic consequences of the strike-threat in our labor market. It also presents a devastating argument for the superiority of the free market.
Rothbard’s Magnificent Essay on Mises
No one has yet done what Murray N. Rothbard has so brilliantly succeeded in doing in “The Essential von Mises”. He has given us, in a brief but remarkably comprehensive form, an outline of Dr. Mises’s outstanding contributions.
Common False Dichotomies
Bob Murphy has unwittingly made a great contribution in his article today to a short list of common false dichotomies in the area of political economy:
The first thing to realize is that people do not decide to “spend” or not; rather, they decide whether to spend in the present versus in the future.
Here is a similar false dichotomy spotted by Hayek who wrote about the use of the term “planning” to mask what was really at stake… Who should plan? The government or individuals?:
“Intellectual Property and Libertarianism,” Liberty magazine
My article Intellectual Property and Libertarianism was published last month in Liberty magazine (December 2009 issue).
The Triumph of Socialism
It might have been much worse were it not for the efforts of a relative handful of intellectuals who have fought against socialist theory for more than a century. Without them, it might have been 99% in support of socialist tyranny.
Democracy and Faits Accomplis
The Myth of the “Old Right”
The writers and intellectuals who made up the most visible contingent of the “Old Right” were in no meaningful sense on the Right at all. They were on the Left, where they had always been.
