Free Markets

Lysander Spooner has many great distinctions in the history of political thought.

While the state supports of industry may have seemed like gifts at the beginning, the distorted framework of the government-directed economy makes everyone worse off.

Re-Thinking Green: Alternatives to Environmental Bureaucracy is an excellent book of easy-reading essays dealing with environmental policy from the perspective of “free-market environmentalism” 

Among all those goods which have been offered as examples of public goods, national defense and lighthouses have been among the most frequently cited.

All human institutions — governments, markets, money, etc. — suffer from the same problem: the imperfections so bitterly denounced by Schmookler. Greed, ignorance, myopia, irrationality are endemic in them all. 

Carnis reviews these two significant and imposing works that were published almost at the same time and are directed to readers interested in the topic of road infrastructure management.

The fundamental idea behind this book, as its title suggests, is that innovation is the driving force behind the remarkable growth miracle of capitalism. 

When studying the origins of the Austrian School, one is often struck by the influence played by Catholic thinkers and culture during the centuries leading up to the publication of Menger’s Principles.

To build a roads system, an administrative price mechanism—commercialization—may yield some solutions to the problems of public roads but it gives rise to other problems

For the usual readers of free market books, Naked Economics promises exciting reading. Charles Wheelan, an American correspondent of London’s Economist