The Free Market 17, no. 12 (December 1999) Proper liberals feigned shock and disgust when the NAACP released the results of a poll showing that 50 percent of young people believe that racial separation is fine so long as different races have “equal opportunities.” The poll, co-sponsored by the NAACP and Zogby International, surveyed more than
The Free Market 5, no. 2 (February 1987) Winter is here, and for the last few years this seasonal event has meant the sudden discovery of a brand-new category of the pitiable: the “homeless.” A vast propaganda effort has discovered the homeless and abjured us to do something about it—inevitably to pour millions of tax-dollars onto the problem.
The Free Market 5, no. 6 (June 1987) A truism among free-marketeers is that collectivism is flawed because it flies in the face of human nature. But many writers on our side also ignore a key aspect of human nature. They write about politics and economics as if they were logic or mechanics. Pull lever X for output Y. Disseminate the evidence of
The Free Market 5, no. 6 (June 1987) A truism among free-marketeers is that collectivism is flawed because it flies in the face of human nature. But many writers on our side also ignore a key aspect of human nature. They write about politics and economics as if they were logic or mechanics. Pull lever X for output Y. Disseminate the evidence of
The Free Market 25, no. 5 (May 2007) After the shooting rampage at Virginia Tech, many well-intentioned people all over the country have been calling for increased gun control laws. However, economists tend to oppose gun control laws, since such laws generally pay no attention to basic economic issues. Let’s start with the relationship between
The Free Market 25, no. 9 (October 2007) The state is the most destructive institution human beings have ever devised—a fire that, at best, can be controlled for only a short time before it o’erleaps its improvised confinements and spreads its flames far and wide. W hatever promotes the growth of the state also weakens the capacity of individuals
The Free Market 28, no. 5 (May 2010) This Libertas Award acceptance speech was delivered at the XXIII Forum da Liberdade, in Porto Alegre, Brazil, on April 12, 2010. Mises was one of the greatest intellectuals of the twentieth century, a resolute and uncompromising champion of freedom. Fifty years ago, Mises came to South America and delivered
The Free Market 29, no. 2 (February 2011) Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995) was dean of the Austrian School. He was an economist, economic historian, and libertarian political philosopher. This essay is the introduction to a new edition of Mises’s The Clash of Group Interests , published by the Mises Institute, 2011. The advocates of free-market
The Free Market 29, no. 7 (Fall 2011) Fascism is the system of government that cartelizes the private sector, centrally plans the economy to subsidize producers, exalts the police state as the source of order, denies fundamental rights and liberties to individuals, and makes the executive state the unlimited master of society. This describes
The Free Market 30, no. 5 (May 2012) In a speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors on April 3, 2012, President Obama called a budget proposal of his Republican opponents in Congress “thinly veiled Social Darwinism.” What did did the president mean by this comment? The budget proposal in question, he claimed, would require drastic cuts
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