Free Markets

“Coase, get your cattle off my land.” –Walter Block 

Although the present paper is dedicated to a highly critical examination of Hoppe’s contributions to the field of immigration, we readily acknowled

Liechtenstein has long been recognized as one of the most free and prosperous countries in the world.

The existence of common property in anarcho-capitalism naturally points to the interesting policy question of how this common property would be con

Three decades ago, I published “Do We Ever Really Get Out of Anarchy?” The answer I gave is that we do not, that government only substitutes one ki

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

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.