Free Markets

It is the way of individual liberty, of the free market, of private property, of government limited to securing these rights equally for all.

Even America's poorest people nowadays can afford automobiles, cell phones, and TVs. Yet a significant number of social critics wish they couldn't.

"[I]f the glorious public sector, if expanded government, has brought us to this pretty pass, perhaps the answer is to roll government back, to return to the truly revolutionary path of dismantling the Big State."

Rothbard has succeeded in sustaining what remains of the postmeltdown high-tech and information sectors, albeit in India and China.

The appropriate policy is not to strengthen labor standards but to open borders and allow people to cross them freely.

In the literature of the American Revolution there is no demagogic attempt to set human rights against property rights.

Presented to the Auburn University Libertarians; September 21, 2009.

Rothbard is even more consistent and rigorous than I had imagined.

The point, once more, is not that the conservatives deployed bad arguments against the supposed extremism of Mises and Rothbard. Rather, they downgraded the role of reason as such; and this rendered ineffective their resistance to the Left.

Now that our country is expected to be the foremost champion of the “free world” (for how long and at what cost nobody knows), it has b