Ideas, Free and Unfree: A Book Commentary
This book helped me see the world more clearly and understand so much that had previously remained cloudy.
Free Markets
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Is the Tea Party’s Revolution Serious?
The problem with the tea partiers is that their version of history is not radical enough.
Ireland’s Dirt Economy
Irish dirt is an actual product that people can and do buy.
Does Economic Growth Cause Inflation?
A true expansion of wealth cannot generate a general increase in prices.
Free to Write
Literature and the Economics of Liberty shows that it is possible to discuss works of literature without wholesale condemnation of capitalism.
What Can We Do about Gasoline Prices?
Government officials blame oil speculators, corporate greed, and OPEC, anyone but themselves.
There’s No Such Thing as Homemade Ice Cream
In fact, it is pretty clear that there is no such thing as homemade ice cream, and that we use the phrase only in the most metaphorical sense. Thank goodness. The store is just the last stop in a huge and extended process that emerged over centuries and requires the involvement of people all over the world.
Albert Jay Nock
Nock was perhaps the finest stylist in 20th-century American literature.
How Real Estate Came to Own Us
Cheap money, buyer tax incentives, lack of new supply, nothing seems to keep home prices elevated.
The Rationale for Total Privatization
To progress toward a truly free society, expropriated owners or their legal heirs should be restored as private owners to all public property.
