Defining Government, Begging the Question: An Answer to Walter Block’s Reply
Walter Block has penned a response to my paper in which I argue that there isn’t much more than a verbal difference between limited government (min
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From the Bosom of Communism to the Central Control of EU Planners
Since the end of the Second World War, the issue of European integration has taken on ever-greater economic and political importance.
Book Review of Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty by Randy E. Barnett
n this article, J.H. Huebert reviews Randy E. Barnett’s Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty.
The Kelo Decision and the Fourteenth Amendment
In the Kelo decision, the city of New London, Connecticut, exercised the power of eminent domain to seize the private property of Susette Kelo and
The Territorial Assumption: Rationale for Conquest
The classic definition of the State involves two elements: a coercive monopolization of defense services over a given geographic area, and the impo
The “Entrepreneurial” State is Anything But
Mazzucato’s economic reasoning falters on one of the most basic axioms of economics, namely the broken-window fallacy.
How War Leads to Big Government
Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 24 July 2014.
Should We Build a McDonald’s on the Rim of the Grand Canyon?
Left alone, the market always allocates resources to the highest bidder i.e., to their most highly valued uses and through this process of investment and reinvestment, capital is accumulated and the marginal productivity of labor increases. Thus when the market remains free, wages and living standards are seen to continually increase as well.
