Free Markets

While capitalism gives rise to prosperity and freedom, the state thrives on an economically ignorant public.

How a person uses the right to associate (and to not associate) is a matter of individual choice profoundly influenced by the cultural context.

Lysander Spooner was one of this country’s most important libertarians. His views on economics, while flawed, are free market in principle and have some insights Austrians can appreciate.

Caitlin Clark, with her array of basketball skills, has filled arenas in her inaugural WNBA season. However, the idea of merit clashes with the leftist, egalitarian mindset that dominates in the league, and the early reaction to her success has been discouraging.

Stiglitz won the 2001 Nobel Prize in economics, but that doesn't mean he understands free markets, as you might expect from the title of this book. No, Professor Stiglitz, in the free market, there are no government subsidies or taxes. 

Lysander Spooner was one of this country’s most important libertarians. His views on economics, while flawed, are free market in principle and have some insights Austrians can appreciate.

Caitlin Clark, with her array of basketball skills, has filled arenas in her inaugural WNBA season. However, the idea of merit clashes with the leftist, egalitarian mindset that dominates in the league, and the early reaction to her success has been discouraging.

Bob continues his feud with George Selgin, explaining why the alleged free banking period in Scotland doesn't show that free-market banks would carry low reserve ratios.

Today these reasons or very similar ones are used by opponents of a different form of abolitionism: the proposal that government as we know it — monopolistic, individually nonconsensual rule by an armed group that demands obedience and payment of taxes — be abolished.

Fallout, the dystopian series on Prime, hardly is free market in its caricature of business. However, the show lends itself to being analyzed through the lens of Austrian Economics.