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.
Big Government
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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 “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.
