Free Markets

Like control over consumer goods in the former Soviet Union, water in Canada is subject to strict state control.

A long-out-of-print work makes the case for privatizing everything. Robert Murphy is the reviewer.

Charity funded through voluntary contributions is vastly superior to the welfare state. It should stay off the dole. 

Mark Skousen is not easy to satisfy. "In 1980," he informs us, " I asked Murray Rothbard to write an alternative to Robert Heilbroner' s The Wordly Philosophers." 

Tucker was the voice for individualist anarchism in the late 19th century, and J. William Lloyd was his follower. This essay is from the Lloyd papers, now part of the Mises Institute archives.

The grave robber joins the bootlegger, the gunrunner, the drug dealer, and the ivory poacher as another phony criminal created by laws that shouldn't exist.

Former Clinton economist Laura D’Andrea Tyson continues her campaign against the free market, this time calling for price controls. William Anderson straightens her out.

Propose that energy needs be met through more production, and up will go the cry from the left: not production but conservation! Karen De Coster explains the error.

Will the free market underproduce roads? Not a chance. Chris Westley explains how government intervention causes traffic congestion. 

Mary McGrory, writing for The Washington Post, sees government failure all around her, yet calls for government to do ever more to help the poor, Adam Young discusses the error.