Investment or Malinvestment?
Anything invested in creation of goods that no one wants ("bads," really) is wasted.
Free Markets
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University Guildsmen and Anticapitalism
Might intellectuals harbor so much hostility against the free market because of the precapitalistic guild structure of the modern university?
Defending Kim Kardashian
Unlike the government, Kardashian forces no one to purchase her products or services.
The Greatest Economic Charity
Mises's main renown is as an economist. Yet to me he is a charitable person even more than an economist.
Joseph Stiglitz’s Market-Failure Myth
With Stiglitz's mainstream neoclassical research, truth is only what can be measured and then fit into mathematical models.
Gloom, Doom, and Optimism
The fact that optimists are so pessimistic about the economy should cause you to take notice and ask if maybe there is something to all this gloom and doom.
Freedom of the Press
Freedom of the press is one of the fundamental features of a nation of free citizens.
The Debacle of Margarine’s Utility
We can see some of the more insidious side effects of regulations by tracing the history of antimargarine laws.
Economics in One Lesson
Henry Hazlitt wrote this book following his stint at the New York Times as an editorialist. His hope was to reduce the whole teaching of economics to a few principles and explain them in ways that people would never forget. It worked. He relied...
The Unit of Social Life
Whatever other attributes the human being brings to bear on the social order of which he is the integral, his will to live comes first in the hierarchy.
