How much of the spectrum should be privatized? All of it, writes B.K. Marcus. Even the vast "beachfront property" held by the military? Yes, all of it.
Economists of an Austrian bent just can't take off their analytical spectacles, writes Mark Thornton, even when undertaking simple life activities like driving from here to there.
Chris Westley asks what Shel Silverstein really meant to say with his book The Giving Tree. It is bad economics leading to a dangerous political bent.
Two books have become almost cult classics among the academic left, and both reveal shocking ignorance of the most elementary level of economic logic. Thomas DiLorenzo explains.
Why didn't private entrepreneurs finance the moon program in the 1960s? Robert Murphy explains that the financial returns from such a project wouldn’t come close to covering the expenses, which is a market signal.
Neoclassical economists often make matters more complicated than necessary; but, fortunately, the best of them manage to stumble close
People are right to feel excluded, ignored, and otherwise ill-served by the political system. And yet what do the two parties do about this?
If we had the medical system that a number of politicians and newspaper editorial writers in this country have been demanding, I very likely could have died.
Bruce Ramsey reports on his visit to a seminar conducted by Jeffrey Friedman of Barnard College. "The first day at Princeton has been a hosing-down."
It is conventional to credit medicines and hospitals for long lives, writes Jeffrey Tucker, but we should also give due regard to such conventional consumer products such as shoes that make life past the age of 40 worth living at all.
