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The Fable of the Leeches: Or Why Economists Are Wrong to Assume Markets Require Contract Enforcement
Recorded at Mises University 2018.
The European Miracle
It was in Europe—and above all, America — that human beings first achieved per capita economic growth over a long period of time.
Market Data: Power, War, and Man
Civilization is an achievement of the 'bourgeois' spirit, not of the spirit of war and conquest.
The Fantasy Behind Marx’s Historical Materialism
There is nowhere Marx is fuzzier or shakier than in the concept of historical materialism, the key to the inevitable dialectic of history.
The Enterprise of Customary Law
Our modern reliance on government to make law and establish order is not the historical norm.
In Defense of Consumerism
"Consumerism" seems like a big problem until the market supplies an essential good or service we badly need.
Of the Demand or Market for Products
Wealth stems not from spending, but from production. Declines in production are be remedied by frugality, intelligence, activity, and freedom.
Economics and Its Opponents
Among the great books of mankind are the immortal writings by the Greek philosopher Plato. The Republic and The Laws, written 2300 to 2400 years ago, dealt not only with philosophy, the theory of knowledge, epistemology, but also with social...
