Free Markets

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.

Bill Buckley and Irving Kristol revealed why they are not drawn to free-market logic: they find it dull. But economics is no more dull than life itself, writes Lew Rockwell.

Popular contempt for the market is distressing. Few institutions are so universally reviled, and perhaps fewer institutions are so universally misunderstood.

Is the state’s power of eminent domain necessary in a free society? Walter Block and Richard Epstein debate the topic.