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David Gordon

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.

Ludwig von Mises

"The East lacked the primordial thing, the idea of freedom from the state. The East never raised the banner of freedom."

David Gordon

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.

Phil Duffy

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

Kristoffer Mousten Hansen

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.