When the State of Alabama recently announced that it was banning the importation of Vietnamese basa fish, writes William Anderson, officials even intimated that some sneaky terrorists might use it kill Americans.
Environmentalism sees market failure as the cause of environmental problems. Block sees the absence of private property rights and the interference of government as the causes of problems. Libertarianism provides solutions. Man is not a cancer on the planet. Markets have not failed.
Jayant Bhandar writes of the real environmental problem that exists the world over: irresponsible "public servants" who care nothing for property rights.
The Supreme Court overturned the guilty verdict against Arthur Andersen Company, writes William Anderson, but it came too late to save the firm.
With the Kyoto Treaty, writes Joseph Potts, government and science have found each other, and the spawn of this marriage look set to destroy global wealth on a scale that will render the greatest of history’s wars trivial by comparison.
Surely, no one would dare to apply the Bastiat's Broken Window fallacy to the human tragedy that is still playing itself out along the rim of the Indian Ocean. And yet Chris Westley has discovered that at least one economist has done so.
Every winter of bad weather brings us the same scenes of bleak road and highway conditions. Paul Servodio suggests one fix: eliminate public ownership and all that goes with it.
