Free Markets

Protection or Free Trade, published in 1886, is undoubtedly one of the most significant works ever written on the subject, writes Laurence Vance.

Roderick Long leads The Mises Circle: An Informal Discussion of Anarchy at Mises University 2004.

The body-weight crusaders continue their Quixotic struggle, writes Gard Goldsmith, because they believe in the Marxist myth that the owners of the means of production make people buy things.

So now we are supposed to worry about those deprived of chain supermarkets. William Anderson notes how the academic left shifts gears.

Did the EU bring free trade to Europe? Not at all, says Terry Arthur. The heyday of free trade was the 100 years between the Napoleonic Wars and World War 1.

After so much fighting for so long, at last France and Germany find a common cause: resist economic reform and shore up the state apparatus as long as possible. Grant Nülle examines the scene.

Neoclassical economists often make matters more complicated than necessary; but, fortunately, the best of them manage to stumble close to the truth. Jagdish Bhagwati is by no means a committed supporter of the free market. 

A great many people have learned from Mises and Rothbard, but Lew Rockwell belongs to a much more select class: he has developed their thought in an original way.

It is entirely within coffee-bean buyers' rights to pay any price, including an inflated price, writes Joesph Potts.

Most people assume that gifts are wonderful to receive. But this view has recently come under attack, reports Robert Murphy finds riddled with fallacy.