How I Learned to Love the State
While we were students of the state education apparatus, how many of us had to write research papers where we were asked to "change the world"?
While we were students of the state education apparatus, how many of us had to write research papers where we were asked to "change the world"?
They keep trying and trying with ever-worse results. There is no middle way to solve the housing crisis. The real help for underwater homeowners will only arrive when Fannie, Freddie, and the rest are allowed to fail.
Many have misdirected their anger toward illegal immigrants or the businesses that hire them. Their outrage should be aimed at the state.
What if, instead of Marxist or quasi-Marxist paradigms, literary critics adopted the theories of free-market economics?
The elimination of the state will not lead to lawless chaos. Not only will market law be more efficient; it will also be more equitable than the government alternative.
A great deal of truth can be unveiled via "Crusoe economics" — the analysis of acting man in complete isolation.
If there were a top-ten list for how many words someone had devoted to the cause of liberty, Leonard Read would surely be on it.
Today's crop of central planners and big-spending politicians could learn a thing or two about economics from Henry Hazlitt.