How Prosperity Generates Poverty
In a peculiar way, writes Paul Trescott, the underclass are subsidized by our prosperous society.
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Federal pandemic plan: wear masks, stay home, keep your distance
Fox News is reporting on the White House’s plan to keep us save from a flu o
Where Would General Motors Be Without the United Automobile Workers Union?
Writes George Reisman: What the UAW has done, on the foundation of coercive, interventionist labor legislation, is bring a once-great company to its knees.
Society in Jail
Writes Jeffrey Tucker: even that law which appears to be a mere guideline and a help--such as a stop sign--must ultimately be enforced by jails and violence.
In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State, by Charles Murray
Charles Murray, by his own account, should not have written In Our Hands. He identifies a genuine problem; but he himself shows that his plan to solve it is either useless or inferior to a better plan.
Five Ways Government Grows, and What the Mises Institute is Doing About It
Recorded at the Mises Circle in Houston, 4 March 2006.
Neither Samaritan Nor Solomon
Lew Rockwell identifies the main lies of government: the State is a good Samaritan, is as wise as Solomon, practices the art of compromise, creates wealth, and educates us all in proper social values.
Uncertainty and Its Exigencies: The Critical Role of Insurance in the Free Market
Hans-Hermann Hoppe explains the neglected role of insurance in a free market economy. Any insurance involves the pooling of individual risks by the market, a task the state can only distort.
Iraq and the Democratic Empire
This talk was delivered to the Auburn University Libertarians on February 16, 2006.
“End Liberty NOW!”
A scan of this morning’s newspapers reveals that the Global Platonic Republic is about to launch a new campaign to fund its dangerous Collect
