Free Markets

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. 

A famed physicist warns of a market-driven genetic caste system. But the real danger is putting the government in charge of any technology.

The New England Journal of Medicine has it backwards: it's public, not private, money that skews research agendas.

The new campaign to impose vacations as a mandated benefit, promoted by Escape Magazine,  rests on economic fallacy. 

Why neoclassical economists are wrong to stop short of calling for the full repeal of antitrust. 

Fifteen years ago, Murray N. Rothbard wrote a piece on the most prevalent economic errors of that time. What are the great economic errors alive today?