Free Markets

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.

While historians paint the enclosure movement in negative terms, it actually played an important role in developing agricultural entrepreneurship.

Commodity money isn't a government creation, as so many believe. It has a definite praxeological foundation.

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.

Mainstream economists say everyone should pay the same price for the same good. But that doesn't totally make sense.

The Mali Empire flourished as a trading center and gold-producing region from the late Middle Ages into the mid-seventeenth century.

Before it was destroyed by British aggression in 1755, the Acadian community in Nova Scotia provided a window into an anarcho-capitalist society that was cohesive and successful.

If you wish to get a better understanding of economics, don't follow the mainstream. Instead, read Thomas DiLorenzo's new book.