Working Paper: Post New Economy
A Perspective on Post New Economy Business Cycle Behavior by Joseph Calandro (University of Connecticut)
Crime does Pay — Better Than The State
You rarely learn anything from TV except for its incredible lack of reality and its delight in delivering statist messages.
A New Liberty Now
In For A New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, Murray Rothbard proposes a once-and-for-all escape from the two major political parties, the ideologies they embrace, and their central plans for using state power against people. Libertarianism is Rothbard’s radical alternative, and the book is newly available.Bureaucracy and the Civil Service in the United States
Rediscovering The Discovery...
I’m pleased to see that the Mises Institute is carrying The Discovery of Freedom. Rose Wilder Lane (Daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder) was one of the past century’s most ardent proponents of liberty. In particular, The Discovery of Freedom: Man’s Struggle Against Authority (1943) was a seminal work on freedom.
Gambling to Save New Orleans
Vedran Vuk says that changing one law can prevent the city’s continued decline and fall of New Orleans. The edict that must be removed is the monopoly on gambling held by Harrah’s casino.
Are you a decentralist libertarian or a centralist who wants to impose liberty (and ends up creating despotism)?
Here is a test case to separate decentralist libertarians, who believe that divided sovereignty is the best long-run protection for liberty, from the centralist libertarians, who mistakenly believe that a distant government that is not friend of liberty should be empowered to defend liberty and property rights.
On Equality and Inequality
[This article is excerpted from chapter 14 of Money, Method, and the Market Process, edited by Richard M. Ebeling. It was originally published in Modern Age (Spring 1961).]
The Rust Belt v. Taxes
The Rust Belt state of Ohio is hemorrhaging jobs. On one hand state officials claim that the state’s tax rate is not a hindrance to attracting companies to invest in the state, while on the other hand these very same officials cut taxes to entice DaimlerChrysler AG to build a plant near Toledo. The state’s tax system cannot be “neutral” when it is obviously too high for additional capital investment.
In Defense of Consumerism
[Originally published May 18, 2006.]
I’m beginning to think that the epithet “consumerism” is just another word for freedom in the marketplace.
It’s true that the market is delivering goods, services, and technological advances by leaps, day after day. People claim that they are so inundated with techno advances that they don’t want any more. Say no to the latest gizmo!
