Free Markets

In our world of interventionist laws and regulations, I have found a Rothbardian island, so to speak — a place where the ethics of liberty live.

I am pleased to announce that, starting July 20, I (and guest lecturer Peter Klein) will offer a Mises Academy class, <a href="http://academy.mises.org/courses/production/">Production and the Market Process</a>.

After taking office, President Obama massively expanded regulation, from Obamacare to the proliferation of regulatory czars, and proposed still more.

How many bystanders am I justified in murdering in order to eliminate someone trying to kill me? If I abandon the principle of not harming innocents, what standard should I use to calculate how many innocent people I may murder in the process of protecting myself?

Block cleared away the irrational, inchoate underbrush of my own thought.

Bellikoth Ragunath Shenoy was born in 1905 in the village of Bellikoth, near Mangalore, in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. He became a hugely influential proponent of Hayekian theory and policy. He is sadly neglected today.

Today's Big Ag boom is sponsored by ethanol subsidies from the state.

One way to fight against the takeover of society by the state and its minions is to show a greater appreciation of their opposite.

It was a blast, this libertarian-anarchist gathering in New Hampshire, and more evidence that this movement is growing. 

Szasz and Leary often chose somewhat different public issues to speak out on, but both displayed an unwavering commitment to human liberty.