The Core of What Economics Teaches
Austrian economists do have a realistic way of looking at human action. A policy of getting further into debt when you are already deeply in debt just doesn't make sense to them.
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Technology and the Market
Tech advances only happen under freedom, they do not just happen. Collectives do not make technology, only individuals do. Eliminating taxes would encourage investments. Tearing down all interventions and regulations would free enterprise.
Is Healthcare a Basic Human Right?
When government assigns positive rights to others, some of us will be forced to pay for it. No right to healthcare is a legitimate right.
Why Free Markets Matter
A free market is just people making voluntary exchanges. Woods makes an example out of the creation of a ham sandwich. Welfare and warfare undermine the natural economic harmony of large scale social cooperation - the free market.
Jean Bodin: Apex of Absolutist Thought in France
While Montaigne paved the way for the dominance of absolutist thought in France, surely the founder or at least the locus classicus of 16th-century
William Godwin (1756–1836)
"I ought to exercise my talents for the benefit of others; but that exercise must be the fruit of my own conviction; no man must attempt to press me into the service." —William Godwin
Zamyatin Foresaw Totalitarianism and the Politics of Sex
We, this satirical and heretical dystopian futurist book, ends by resolving whether or not the protagonist can find penultimate happiness in the co
The Skeptic as Absolutist: Michel de Montaigne
It is a favorite conceit of modern, 20th-century liberals that skepticism, the attitude that nothing can really be known as the truth, is the best
Are We a Self-Hating Commercial Society?
In a few short hours, I was assaulted ten times with the demand that I display social consciousness.
More Free or Less Free?
Do we have perennial libertarian problems, like losing our freedoms year after year? The long view of liberty shows that overall Americans are more free, but getting our ideas out there is required. The remnant exists and they will find us.
7. The United States: Bimetallic Coinage
From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: “The History of Money and Bank
12. New York Fumbles in the Crisis
Pages 58-61 in the text, as narrated by Floy Lilley. From Part 1 of Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV: “The War Begins.”
1. The History of Money and Banking Before the Twentieth Century
From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: “The History of Money and Bank
Giovanni Botero: The First Malthusian
The overall view of Botero is that the morality and justification for actions of the prince are diametrically opposed to the principles that must g
10. The Second Bank of the United States, 1816-1833
From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: “The History of Money and Bank
4. Private Bank Notes
From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: “The History of Money and Bank
8. The First Bank of the United States, 1791-1811
From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: “The History of Money and Bank
13. The Suppression of the Tories Begins
Pages 65-70 in the text, as narrated by Floy Lilley. From Part 2 of Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV: “Suppresing Tories.”
2. Shilling and Dollar Manipulations
From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: “The History of Money and Bank
6. The Bank of North America
From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: “The History of Money and Bank
