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QJAE: An Austrian View on Risk and Its Quantification: A Reply to Hering, Olbrich, and Rapp
Abstract: Hering, Olbrich, and Rapp (2021) pointed out limitations to the risk-adjusted method proposed in Kruk (2020) and advised
“Tax Expenditures” Is a Misnomer
The April 18 deadline for Americans to file their 2022 income tax returns had hardly passed before House Republicans began to talk about reviving t
The Pentagon Wants To Affirm Your Gender Transition. But Not if You’re Avoiding the Draft
The military tells us that everyone should be able to choose his or her gender. But when it comes to the forced-labor program known as "the draft," the policy is clear: all people "born male" must register. It seems maintaining the empire trumps transgenderism.
Decentralization Is Not Fascism
Marxists and leftist progressives have falsely tried to label anything associated with capitalism and free markets as "fascism." The same goes for political decentralization.
Mises versus Hayek on the Future of Civilization
While F.A. Hayek is known for his term “spontaneous order,” Mises saw institutional development as coming from growth in human understanding of things.
States Are Dying from Corruption and the Exponential
The state is held together by violence and nothing else. There is no such thing as "the social contract." But even violence cannot make a state last past its time, as we saw with the USSR.
Deneen’s Common Good Statism
Culture warrior Patrick Deneen takes on the free market and its traditions. Neither of which he understands well.
Deneen’s Common Good Statism
Let Staten Island Secede!
If Staten Island is allowed to secede, our national technocrats fear that might open up countless similar demands for self-determination across the nation. For the elites, the current status quo works quite well and they want to keep it that way.