Robert L. Bradley Jr.

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Rob Bradley Gives a Brief History of US Electricity Regulation, with Lessons for the Recent Texas Freeze

03/24/2021 Robert P. Murphy Robert L. Bradley Jr.

Rob Bradley explains the role of Sam Insull (co-founder of General Electric) in showing what a free market in electricity would look like, and criticizes Texas’ ERCOT as a central planning agency.

Energy: The Master Resource

01/11/2016 Robert L. Bradley Jr. Richard W. Fulmer

Robert Bradley, a leading free market energy economist, has in collaboration with Richard Fulmer put together an outstanding book that covers the huge subject of energy, beginning with answers to the most fundamental questions (What is energy? Where

Market Socialism: A Subjectivist Evaluation

07/30/2014 Journal of Libertarian Studies Robert L. Bradley Jr.

This essay is an attempt to provide a modern overview of the economic calculation debate from the Austrian School perspective. Specifically, the many arguments against market socialism will be...

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