Free Markets

Did you ever hear the phrase, “With friends like that, who needs enemies?” This aphorism applies to several “defenses” of the free enterprise syste

In this article, Professor Walter Block discusses the legalities of black mail as well as the Libertarian perspective.

One might ask: why has there been so little consideration of nonviolent resistance among libertarians?

In a free society, goods, capital, and people would enjoy unrestricted freedom of movement based on voluntary relationships and the respect for pri

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 25 July 2014.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 24 July 2014.

Left alone, the market always allocates resources to the highest bidder i.e., to their most highly valued uses and through this process of investment and reinvestment, capital is accumulated and the marginal productivity of labor increases. Thus when the market remains free, wages and living standards are seen to continually increase as well.

Recorded at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on 21 July 2014.

In this interview, Peter Klein and Nicolai Foss discuss new ways to study entrepreneurship.

The fact that opponents of private property rights have managed to frame the debate over health-care mandates as some sort of religious issue is on