One of the darlings of the left's intellectual brotherhood gives us a look into the state of intellectual affairs therein. Piketty expounds "there is no universal law of economics: There is only a multiplicity of historical experiences and imperfect data.” Piketty is what Mises calls an "antieconomist."
Larson's principal targets are Friedman and Hayek, but Mises and Rothbard are not spared. For Larson, promarket economists aren't just wrong. They're bad people.
Allen Mendenhall reviews Eric Graf's new book on Don Quijote, which advances the liberal tradition and adds to a slowly growing stock of libertarian literary criticism.
Inequality can exist and grow even if everyone is becoming better off—but some are becoming more better off than others. Should we care about this kind of inequality?
Allen Mendenhall reviews Eric Graf's new book on Don Quijote, which advances the liberal tradition and adds to a slowly growing stock of libertarian literary criticism.
Jason Morgan reviews Zachary Carter's new intellectual biography of John Maynard Keynes, finding it "an essential read" which, with admirable even-handedness, presents the Keynesian world to readers, warts and all.
Our aim ought not to be to make democracy “work better” but to use revelations of corruption as a tool to question altogether its value as a political and social system of organization.
In many ways, the American war crimes of Korea and Vietnam were a continuation of American military conduct in the Civil War and during the Indian wars.
Contracts are voidable and thoroughly changeable. They can be totally ignored with the consent of both parties. But natural rights are not like contracts and can't be abolished even with consent.
