Free Markets

There are billions of cases where individuals encounter others not under the jurisdiction of the same government, and somehow there is not this chaos that statists envision.

Somehow people doubt that this is true, but it is a fact: I was a professional chef with a highly regarded firm that served exotic meats such as elephant, giraffe, snake.

There was a time when we had no viable means to get crocodile and antelope meat, and you could forget about a Yakburger.

Traveled to a big city lately? If so, you must have gotten words of wisdom from someone close to you.

Programs such as welfare, unemployment insurance, and government-provided healthcare and insurance all must go. The job market provides a great incentive to not abuse drugs.

Being a genuine individualist, Frank again pursued the logic of liberty without flinching to arrive at an even more dangerous position: 'isolationism' …

It says something good about the American people that they insist on acting as if we lived in a free country in which we really shouldn't have to bother with politics

His political opinions had always been unpalatable to his colleagues. Even before he encountered Hayek and the Austrians, he had the reputation of an extreme libertarian (which is not exceedingly difficult to obtain in France, the only major country in which academic economists tend to be more statist than the rest of the population).

A fascinating interview with playwright/scr

But even more damaging to the case for state-mandated preservation is the fact that the most egregious destroyers of treasures from our past have not been market actors seeking profit, but states pursuing power, engaging in wars, urban renewal projects, and eminent domain seizures of long-established and beloved neighborhoods for highways, airports, sports stadiums, and commercial developments promising higher tax revenues.