It is a great irony that visions of socialist harmony necessarily result in rancorous and destructive struggles among groups with contradictory visions of the good society. It is perhaps equally ironic that profit-driven competition in markets results in the highest attainable degree of social harmony. Yet, this is how the world really works.
The notion of limited government is incapable of being realized in practice. If there is a monopoly government, any limitations on the government must be ones the government has imposed on itself. To expect this sort of limitation to be effective is futile.
Government intervention in health care has driven up health care prices.
It is a fact that severe poverty has disappeared in the most industrialized countries. The wealth of the first-world welfare states was made possible by those countries’ turn toward free markets in the past. Likewise, the turn toward more free markets in the developing world has reduced poverty there.
The Latin root of radicalism is radix for “root,” and in this week-long Steve Berger Seminar, the roots and reach of both libertarian and Austrian theory are covered by a leading authority: Professor Walter Block of Loyola Uni
SUMMER WORKSHOP 2005
Wednesdays, 2:00pm (unless otherwise noted)
Robert Murphy, Hillsdale College
Joseph Salerno, Pace University
Sponsored by Jeremy and Helen Davis
Join Ron Paul, Lew Rockwell and Mises Institute faculty for the Mises Circle in Houston.
In honor of the late Murray N. Rothbard, S.J. Hall Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Sponsored by Louis E. Carabini and Joseph Edward Paul Melville.
Sponsored by Weaver Popcorn Company
Sponsored by Dr. Don Stacy
