Free Markets

Some 40,000 people perish each year on U.S.

How a free market in law enforcement and military defense could work. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

What is the corporate form of organization, where did it come from, how does it work, and do corporations take advantage of consumers, investors, a

Free trade and the international division of labor are the prerequisites for civilized society, which is why the state has always waged war against

It is no accident that Germany, the country that inaugurated the social-security system, was the cradle of both varieties of modern disparagement of democracy, the Marxian as well as the non-Marxian.

The imposition of Colbert's regime of statism, monopoly, and prohibitive tariffs, combined with Louis XIV's high taxation and centralization, gave rise, by the late 1660s, to a growing tide of opposition by merchants and nobility alike.

"The more controls and taxation a State imposes on its people," Sam wrote, "the more they will evade and defy them.

"Within the Misesian-Hayekian framework, the only permanent solution to existing malinvestment is to allow its liquidation and the readaptation of the structure of production."

"The sole difference between a gossip and a blackmailer is that the blackmailer will refrain from speaking — for a price."

Contributors to Liberty who rejected intellectual property as a natural right were not hostile to copyright or patent enforced by contract.