Jim Cox

Articles

06/09/2025 Power & Market Jim Cox

Critics of the Free State Project should direct animosity, not at those moving to their state, but to the other 49 states for failing to be freer. The Free State Project migrants are not moving to New Hampshire to exert coercion on the existing population, but to live under less coercion.

There Have Been 57 Peaceful Secessions Since 1776

11/01/2023 Power & Market Jim Cox

My impression is that most Americans when hearing the term “secession” think of the War Between the States, or as it’s usually referred to, The Civil War, and so conjure up a bloody multiyear event...

The Trickery Behind Keynes’s Flippant Remark about the “Long Run”

10/08/2018 Power & Market Jim Cox

Keyne's remark that “in the long run we are all dead,” has never offered much insight.

Publications

The Concise Guide To Economics

06/15/1997 Jim Cox

To understand economics is to understand the practical case for freedom. The great merit of this book is to bring out the connection in the clearest and shortest possible way. The Concise Guide To Economics is a handy, quick reference guide for those

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