The Environment

As Professor Block makes clear, “there is no intrinsic conflict between the market and the environment.”

The belief that North America suffered a mass extinction is simply a matter of politically correct multiculturalism.

Texans are suffering terribly. Some pray for rain. Some curse Mother Nature. They should be cursing the government and praying for freedom from the environmental bureaucrats who have caused this shortage of water. Murray Rothbard predicted this in 1993.

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.