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The new encyclical from Pope Francis, due to be officially released tomorrow, is sure to contain at least one claim that the rich are somehow getting rich off the backs of the poor. On a certain level, this is no doubt true: the wealthy are more able to influence state institutions, and are thus...

According to the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, "social expenditures" are expenditures that occur with the purpose of redistributing resources from one group to another, in order to benefit a lower-income or presumably disadvantaged population.

Nordic countries prospered in spite of the Scandinavian model, not because of it.

The countries where the median household has more purchasing power have fewer cases of adult children living with parents. Almost all countries with median incomes above $20,000 have living-at-home percentages below 20 percent, while almost all countries with median income below $30,000 have...

The "true money supply" measure is a measure of the money supply pioneered by Murray Rothbard and Joseph Salerno and is designed to provide a better measure than M2. The Mises Institute now offers monthly updates on the TMS metric and its growth....

In this week's debate, Bernie Sanders claimed that the United States has the highest rate of childhood poverty. CBS reports that Sanders said: "We should not be the country that has the highest rate of...

Violence, whether private sector (i.e., "crime" and non-state "terrorism") or government sector (war and police actions) are at the center of the debate about the state and its uses. Those who want stronger more centralized states will often argue that one of the main...

The Trans Pacific Partnership is just the latest assault on free trade, although, like previous assaults before it, such as the North American Free Trade Agreement, it is labeled as having something to do with free trade. 

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An interesting theme in a 2014 documentary on electronic music (recently added to Netflix instant place), I Dream of Wires, is the tension between two different philosophies of developing electronic music technology. At the one end of the spectrum were the purist avant-garde musicians...

[A selection from For a New Liberty.]

If, as libertarians believe, every individual has the right to own his person and property, it then follows that he...

The Canadian Fraser Institute's "Economic Freedom of the World" report [PDF] was released last week, and, as...

Chris Matthews (not the famous one from MSNBC) at Fortune today questions if "Catholics [can] love their faith and the free market." In other words, it is presumed by the author (and many others...

When George W. Bush was in the White House, left liberals were the ones denouncing war, calling for less intrusive government, and generally striking an anti-government pose. That all abruptly stopped when Obama was sworn in. And now that Obama is president, it's the conservatives who are...

There's no Platonic laboratory where "pure" science happens independent of human ideas, motivations, and institutions.

Europe has complex immigration rules. As the EU web site shows, there are multiple layers of immigration regulations encompassing both the local national...