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.
Free Markets
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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?
A Negative Railway
Here we have clearly the interest of labor put before the interest of consumers.
The “Buy-Local” Canard
In fact, when people take “buy local” seriously, they are setting the stage for absurd and potentially tragic economic results.
Is Insider Trading Really a Crime?
The public loves the fall of a ruthless and greedy financial titan — this, of course, is what made Oliver Stone's original <i>Wall Street</i> such a hit. But the practice of "insider trading" can actually be beneficial. In a free society, there would be no such thing as laws against so-called insider trading.
