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.
Free Markets
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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.
The Competitiveness Distraction
Professional athlete Albert Pujols is undoubtedly a phenomenal mower of lawns. Does this translate into competitiveness in lawn-cutting circles? Nope.
Direct Government Interference with Consumption
Governments, which are eager to keep up the outward appearance of freedom even when curtailing freedom, disguise their direct interference with consumption under the cloak of interference with business.
No, Melissa, There Isn’t a Santa Claus
Political Scientist and MSNBC contributor Mellissa Harris-Perry has called for renewed
The Example of the Strike
The problem of the influence of power on prices as such has hitherto been only scantily treated, and never in a systematic manner, in economic theory.
Free Speech and Occupy Wall Street
A major lesson to be learned from the occupation is that hardly anyone nowadays understands the meaning of freedom of speech.
Civic Religion Reasserted
Relative to what is democracy "efficient"? Wittman does not say.
Roman Law: From Laissez-Faire to Statism
Private-property rights and laissez-faire were the fundamental heritage of the Roman law to later centuries.
