Free Markets

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.

Is democracy a superior substitute for free markets? Jedediah Purdy believes so. David Gordon sets him straight.

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

While the antimarket and antilibertarian forces are strong, it is easy to forget that free market advocates also have a powerful set of tools.