Prejudice is Free, but Discrimination has Costs
Thomas Sowell provides examples of people from many parts of the world demanding that their governments restrict the economic and occupational succ
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Market Chosen Law
Central planning and state control are often cast aside as inferior replacements to far more efficient and humane voluntary market transactions.
The European Union’s American Pedigree: Lessons from the Other Side of the Atlantic
The European Union is a continental movement with an American pedigree.
Archipelagos of Educational Chaos
The defense of government schooling, like government itself, is based on fallacies.
The Limits of Jacksonian Liberalism: Individualism, Dissent, and the Gospel of Andrew According to Lysander Spooner
In 1844 Massachusetts resident Lysander Spooner (1808–1887) advertised in the public press the establishment of the American Letter Mail Company.
Susette Kelo, et al. v. City of New London, Connecticut
Susette Kelo would like to continue living in her newly-restored, waterfront home of seven years.
Nozick’s Failed Defense of the Just State
In this paper, I argue that Nozick fails to adequately defend the claim that a just state would arise from a Lockean state of nature by a process w
The Spooner-Tucker Doctrine: An Economist’s View
In this article, Murray N, Rothbard discusses Lysander Spooner and Benjamin R. Tucker's anti-State doctrine and how it affected his ideological development.
Do Pessimistic Assumptions about Human Behavior Justify Government?
Is government a necessary institution?
Fallacies in the Theories of the Emergence of the State
The theory of the emergence of the State both in public choice literature and in neoclassical economics assumes that social interaction is prone to
