Free Markets

Recorded at the Mises Circle in Newport Beach, California, on November 14th, 2009. Sponsored by Louis E. Carabini.

How do you at once enforce intellectual property and uphold the ideal of a university, which is, after all, about teaching and spreading ideas to others?

Nock was opposed to the state system, whatever name it assumes, but he was not an anarchist.

“The Candlemakers’ Petition” is a well known satire of protectionism written and published in 1845, as part of Bastiat

"War is the apotheosis of Power, the ultimate expression of the faith and solidification of its achievement."

We need to convey the truth that the market for education works and would deliver far better results at less cost if it were allowed to function.

It is clear to see that government-mandated treatment cannot possibly lead to a more cost-effective balance between preventive treatment and future treatment.

These changes do not affect at the same time and to the same extent the prices of the various commodities and services. They consequently affect the wealth of the various members of society in different ways.

The system of voluntary exchange and experimentation based on secure private-property rights—what we loosely call "capitalism"—expands rather than restricts our material and nonmaterial opportunities.

If new capital is the direct product of government spending or the indirect result of its fiscal policy, we are all worse off.