Free Markets

Frank Knight complicates things in interesting ways. He first argues for a free economy in a way that Austrians can only applaud. 

To keep the regulators at bay, high technology executives are beginning to feel that they had better pay homage to the powers-that-be. This is sheer waste. 

The Firestone/Ford debacle is being used to spread the oldest myths in the anticapitalist lexicon.

Air travel delays keep getting worse. Who's to blame?  

Mancur Olson's new book resolves for me a major mystery. As all readers of The Mises Review know, socialism is an unworkable system. Mises conclusively demonstrated that a centrally planned economy cannot calculate rationally; 

William Anderson answers an objection to his defense of Microsoft. 

People fret and complain about trashy beaches, but there is an obvious solution: make them private and charge for entry. 

Until a few months ago, the sum of my experience with Latin America had been a few trips to border cities like Juarez, Nogales, and Tijuana. Beyond that, I had to depend upon Dan Rather, the New York Times, and various social activist groups to find out what was true about life South of the Border. All had a sad story to tell.

Americans have more housing choices than ever before, thanks to the automobile and modern communications. The regulators are fit to be tied, says William Anderson.