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In Defense of Tomb Robbing
The grave robber joins the bootlegger, the gunrunner, the drug dealer, and the ivory poacher as another phony criminal created by laws that shouldn
Appendix: Professor Rolph and the Discounted Marginal Productivity Theory
From Man, Economy, and State, narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
Why Legalize Now?
Why the sudden pressure against drug prohibition? It is a burden on taxpayers. It is a burden on government budgets.
Arbitration of Disputes
Disputants would be far better off if they could choose among competing arbitration agencies and thereby reap the benefits of competition and speci
Appendix: Schumpeter and the Zero Rate of Interest
From Man, Economy, and State, narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
Frédéric Bastiat (1801–1850)
Forerunner of the Austrian School, Bastiat contributed high quality popularization of such legal and economic ideas as legalized plunder, everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else and the fable of the broken window in which what is not seen is as important or more than what is seen.
7.01 Imputation of the Discounted Marginal Value Product
From Man, Economy, and State, narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
6.11. The Time Structure of Interest Rates
From Man, Economy, and State, narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
6.09. Joint-Stock Companies and the Producers’ Loan Market
From Man, Economy, and State, narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
7.02. Determination of the Discounted Marginal Value Product
From Man, Economy, and State, narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
6.07. The Myth of the Importance of the Producers’ Loan Market
From Man, Economy, and State, narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
Education Is More Than Instruction
The person of intelligence tends to “see things as they are,” never permits his view of them to be directed by convention, by the hope
McDonald’s as the Paradigm of Progress
This great company keeps reinventing itself to serve the public: real people, not abstractions, writes Jeffrey A. Tucker.
5.09. Pricing and the Theory of Bargaining
From Man, Economy, and State, narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.