While people from poor countries seek to live in places like the USA because of its stable institutions and welfare state, could migration of people from stable countries to less-developed ones make those countries better off?
While people from poor countries seek to live in places like the USA because of its stable institutions and welfare state, could migration of people from stable countries to less-developed ones make those countries better off?
It is generally accepted that a government can enslave the citizens—unless it is a democratic government. Mistake!
Tate Fegley joins Ryan McMaken and Tho Bishop to discuss how customers are increasingly forced to navigate their economic behavior with a business's ideological values.
Professor Melinda Cooper of Australia believes she has "discovered" Murray Rothbard, but the Rothbard she claims to have found is nonexistent. David Gordon explains why.
"The East lacked the primordial thing, the idea of freedom from the state. The East never raised the banner of freedom."
While historians paint the enclosure movement in negative terms, it actually played an important role in developing agricultural entrepreneurship.
Jacob Soll believes that a truly successful economy must embody at least some of the economic regulation developed by Jean-Baptiste Colbert, the French finance minister under Louis XIV.
Even as population has grown, increasing the intensive margin for agriculture has led to increased food production. This may not necessarily be a good thing.
While capitalism gives rise to prosperity and freedom, the state thrives on an economically ignorant public.
