The World According to de Jasay
In any given context, the state is either unnecessary or impossible.
Free Markets
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Do We Really Need a Minimum Wage?
In the 73 years since the passage of the FLSA, the federal minimum wage has been increased 28 times and decreased only once (in 1963).
Should There Be Shop-Closing Laws?
After decades of strict laws regulating when stores can open and close in Germany, the laws are progressively liberalizing.
The Power of Persuasion
What they were interested in was a collection of issues that included the right to own gold and the abolition of the military draft.
Adventures in Neocon Land
Most people tend to gravitate toward liberty — they just have not heard it properly defined.
Can Government’s Finances Be Compared to a Household’s?
The deficit-hawk politicians are right when they say the government should be sharing in the belt-tightening along with everyone else. Slashing spending at the federal level would return much-needed resources to the private sector, where they would do the most good.
Welfare Is Corrupt Always and Forever
Every government transfer program allows resources given for one purpose to have far different effects than intended.
The Economics of Abundance
The increasing concentration on short-run effects is not only as a serious and dangerous intellectual error; it is a betrayal of the main duty of the economist and a grave menace to our civilization.
Libertarianism and Contemporary Philosophy
This course will consider some of the leading arguments advanced against libertarianism. Do these criticisms have any validity?
