Vacations for All
The new campaign to impose vacations as a mandated benefit, promoted by Escape Magazine, rests on economic fallacy.
Economists and Antitrust
Why neoclassical economists are wrong to stop short of calling for the full repeal of antitrust.
In Praise of E-mail
The “I Love You” bug caused an outburst of attacks on technology. We were warned that email is not safe and can even be treacherous.
Meaning and Human Action
Several new papers on Mises exhibit fundamental misunderstandings of key points of Mises’s epistemology, starting with a paper by experimental economist Vernon Smith.
A Political Gamble
According to the internet-based “futures market” run by the University of Iowa, almost anything can happen in this year’s elections.
Irrational Exuberance?
Frank Shostak rebuts the claim that markets are driven to unsustainable highs by waves of investor enthusiasm. Actually, the Fed itself is the real culprit.
Reichstag Fires on Campus
Hate crimes on campus that turn out to be trumped up excuses for political crackdowns.
Break Up Microsoft?
The essential element in monopoly is forcible exclusion and forcible reservation, not the number of producers.
The Borking of Gates
Fair disclosure: how much did Netscape pay Robert Bork to become an apologist for the most destructive government action of our time?
Right Tactics, Wrong Cause
Those protesting he IMF and World Bank think they are attacking free markets. Yet these bureaucracies were hatched by Keynesian central planners, and should be opposed on free-market grounds.
