Mary Lucia Darst

Articles

How Anti-Trust Policy Hurts the Little Guy

09/07/2019 Mises Wire Mary Lucia Darst

Investigative journalist Ida Tarbell published her book The History of the Standard Oil Company in 1904. In it she claimed that John D. Rockefeller’s business model of owning the entire line of...

Consumerism? Why People Spend on “Useless” Status Symbols

07/23/2019 Mises Wire Mary Lucia Darst

At the height of her scam, con-woman Anna Sorokin, alias Delvey, filled her hotel room with shopping bags from various clothing boutiques in New York City. According to the hotel receptionist whom...

Kenya’s Fishing Crisis Reminds Us of the Benefits of Free Trade

04/23/2019 Mises Wire Mary Lucia Darst

On March 21, 2019, the BBC ran a story titled “Chinese imports ‘driving fishermen to despair.’” Although the title might lead one to think the article is another installment on the US-China trade war...

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