Roger Farmer Gives a Tour of Macroeconomics
The Panic of 1893: An Austrian View
While Rothbard masterfully handled the economic history of both the Panic of 1819 and the Great Depression, as well as contributing to
The Illogic of Reparations: Historical Standards, Selective Memory, and the Logic of Victory
The modern argument for reparations rests on the retroactive application of legal and moral standards that did not exist when slavery was practiced. Slavery in the United States was legal for centuries. Although morally contested, it was not unlawful, and when the institution was abolished, the formerly enslaved were not compensated for their bondage. Their emancipation did not bring financial restitution, nor were slaveholders punished for actions that had been legal under the governing system of the time.
In the New Year, We Will Hear Even More Environmental Doom Because the Doomsday Industry Never Rests
“You must buy this book,” my high school chemistry teacher told me. The book was Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb, and it predicted doom for the earth and its populations. “The battle to feed humanity is over,” it declared, and mass starvation was both inevitable and imminent.
