Free Markets

A quarter of a century ago the mainstream press and television media — as with the 2008 financial crisis — portrayed the debacle as the inevitable result of unfettered free markets run amok.

Countering an academic environment in which Marxism and its variants are still being fed to students, this volume of essays offers nutritious food.

Every day people meet, date, have one-night stands, fall in love, and break up; all without government intervention.

In his closing remarks, Dilulio concedes that there are things to be learned from libertarianism and that government is not the answer for everything.

Banking in its current form is not capitalism.

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” 

 I appreciate the fact that the author attempts to construct logical rather than mathematical arguments, as seems to be the disease that has struck most of the economics profession at the present time. 

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