Power & Market
QJAE: How Say and Jefferson Transformed American Political Economy
Who laid the intellectual foundations of American political economy in the early Republic—the Jeffersonians or the Hamiltonians?
JLS: The Background, Failure, and Aftermath of Nozick’s Attempt to Justify the State
Perhaps the most fundamental question in political philosophy is whether any state is justified.
America’s Deadly Addiction to War
A people whose country cannot say no to perpetual wars will eventually discover that wars have said no to their personal freedoms.
Interventionism Created Spain’s Housing Crisis And Is a Warning to America
Socialist Americans are promising affordable housing through rent controls and government intervention.
Can Machines Judge?
A long-standing claim in the entrepreneurship literature is that entrepreneurship cannot be reduced to optimization.
Informal Rules for Americans in the U.S. Empire
There are informal rules for American citizens about living in the U.S. Empire. Mind you, most of them are not codified into law.
Austrian Student Scholars Conference 2027 at Grove City College
Grove City College will host the annual Austrian Student Scholars Conference on February 12-13, 2027.
The Fed’s September Vote and the Law of Reciprocity
On September 16, twelve people voted. The vote was 12 to 0. The Federal Open Market Committee raised the federal funds rate a quarter point, to 3.75 to 4 percent—the first hike since 2023.
An Appeal for Peace and Multipolarity
In this statement/open letter, Christopher Coyne and Daniel Klein—both professors of economics at George Mason University— have recently issued a statement on the need for America's foreign policy to move in the direction of peace and multipolarity.
