The Environment

This is a gigantic intellectual concession. If some regulations are too costly, what about the billion-plus other regulations?

If you are lost in the woods on the brink of starvation, you are less likely to look at a frog and think, "I hope that species of frog survives."

Recorded at Mises University 2011.

From Man, Economy, and State, narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.

It's now considered too radical to believe that people should just throw unwanted items away. To allow people to do this is "going too far." But here is a fact: forcing people to spend time separating garbage turns the division of labor on its head.

We should thank our lucky stars for air conditioning — and hope that that government won’t destroy it, writes Mark Thornton.

Many in Congress were troubled by the question of whether the Constitution authorized them to pass such legislation.

NotHaus made it easy for the government to prosecute him, but the message is still clear: no competition with the dollar.