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Free trade is “I give you something; you give me something in return”. Trade rights are part of property rights. Nosick calls trade a capitalist act between consenting adults. If you trade, you won’t fight. It becomes harder to have wars. Trade benefits all parties. Fair trade instead of free trade? If we got rid of absolute advantage and
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The Free Market 26, no. 10 (October 2005) K atrina gave the Gulf region of the United States a lesson in government failure, and how. In the weeks following the hurricane, it became clear that most of the destruction was not the work of Mother Nature but those who are charged with preventing precisely such disasters as this. To begin on a
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I was given a signal honor at the Mises Institute’s Austrian Economics and Financial Markets conference on February 18–19, 2005, held in The Venetian Hotel Resort Casino; Las Vegas. I was awarded the Rothbard Medal of Freedom . I would like to take this opportunity to reflect upon the life of Murray N. Rothbard. Not his professional life, which
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I just got a call from one [name left out for fear of acts of vengeance for having blogged this], from the U.S. State Department. He wanted to consult with me about improving the Iraqi economy. He told me he got my name from [a certain Washington think tank with a libertarian reputation], as an expert in near eastern economic development. I told
Mises Wire
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Here is an interesting list of libertarian philosophers . Coda: what appeared in my inbox, which is blogged here, seemed to be only a helpful reference tool. In fact, and on closer look, it seems to be something else entirely, with conspicuous exclusions and plenty of other problems. If it is useful, use it; if not, toss
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Milton Friedman reminds readers of Opinion Journal that he is still an education socialist. The separation of finance (public) and administration (private)? Imagine how that would system would affect, say, WalMart or Dell. At the least, it would require compulsory shopping laws—a correlary to the compulsory education that Friedman still believes
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This is a tale of two economists, Larry Summers and Hans-Hermann Hoppe. They have much in common, in addition to their adherence to the dismal science. Each is quite prominent in his field. Summers was Treasury Secretary in the Clinton Administration, and is now President of Harvard. Hoppe is a professor of economics at the University of Nevada at
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This long and fascinating piece by James Piereson, appearing in the WSJ, inadvertantly documents a hugely important shift: the move from foundation support for libertarianism in the 40s-60s to neoconservatism today. This has been as disastrous as it as been