Bureaucracy and Regulation

As the government expands the reach of civil rights law, one of the casualties is the presumption of innocence. The new rule seems to be “guilty until proven guilty.”

The recent raid on an Amish family farm is the direct result of government protectionism of big agriculture through needless and cumbersome regulations.

Far from being an “automatic stabilizer” that mitigates recessions by engaging in “countercyclical” spending, the welfare state actually makes recessions longer and deeper. Time to acknowledge that fact and do away with it altogether.

While “wokeness” seems to be a new phenomenon, the problems are tied to a sixty-year-old “landmark” law: the 1964 Civil Rights Act. This law, unfortunately, promotes government tyranny in the name of freedom.

The Murray N. Rothbard Memorial Lecture. Sponsored by Steven and Cassandra Torello.

California’s legislature wants to combine the idea of two-part price discrimination with a soak-the-rich mentality in charging for utilities. What possibly could go wrong?

The Friedrich A. Hayek Memorial Lecture. Sponsored by Donald and Judy Rembert.

When the government wants to make something more affordable, that usually means new subsidies, laws, and regulations that drive up the real price. Higher medical prices will mean more medical bankruptcies.

Today we are featuring the winning essays in the Student Essay Contest for undergraduates at the Austrian Economics Research Conference.

Today we are featuring the winning essays in the Student Essay Contest for undergraduates at the Austrian Economics Research Conference.