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Phil Duffy

While historians paint the enclosure movement in negative terms, it actually played an important role in developing agricultural entrepreneurship.

Ludwig von Mises

"In order to succeed, human action must comply not only with what are called the laws of nature, but also with specific laws of human action."

Manuel García Gojon

Typical teaching on stock prices says they are little more than a random walk. But people's purposeful actions are behind every economic transactions.

Kristoffer Mousten Hansen

Even as population has grown, increasing the intensive margin for agriculture has led to increased food production. This may not necessarily be a good thing.

Connor Mortell

Sometime after the turn of the century, a change began to take place. You cannot mark it precisely.

Ryan McMaken

Monarchs created Europe's modern states but lost the ability to control them. Then, having grown beyond the tools that helped monarchs turn themselves into absolute rulers, "the state acquired a life of its own."