Power & Market

Critics of Rothbard have tried to create a myth in which Rothbard is not in the same Austrian tradition as Mises. The words of Mises himself say otherwise.

Those seeking to topple Maduro seek to use the Keynesian recipe that will apply all the usual failed policies that have been used historically in Venezuela.

Economic conditions in West Germany and East Germany diverged dramatically because one had good policy and one had terrible (i.e., socialist) policy.

Governments hate accountability, and they hate reporting on their own failed programs, like the war in Afghanistan.

Notre Dame didn't have fire insurance because it's owned by the French state. This has been the case since the French Revolution, and it could mean anything goes in the reconstruction effort.

Holcombe contends “political capitalism,” has come to replace market capitalism. We now have an economic system in which government and the private sector team up to exploit everyone else.

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Would these pro-tax billionaires have become rich in the first place under the kind of tax system they now advocate?

Foundations of A Free Society is a valuable collection of essays on Ayn Rand's political philosophy. The contributors include both Objectivist philosophers and libertarians who are not Objectivists.

In Libertarianism, the philosopher Eric Mack  offers an excellent and important guide to libertarian theory. In my review, I concentrate on his discussion of Robert Nozick.