The Fateful Wish for Price Stability
Price stability is a scheme dreamed up by central bankers and other interventionists in an effort to circumvent markets.
Free Markets
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What Caused the Irish Potato Famine?
Was the Potato Famine an ecological accident, as historians usually say, or a politically created one?
With Inequality, Some Is Fair and Some Is Unfair
Market growth can naturally lead to greater inequality. But government interventions often add their own, more insidious brand of inequality.
How Markets Foster Human Cooperation
Only human beings know how to overcome irreconcilable, nature-given conflicts: by embarking upon cooperation.
Our Interests and Their Interests
Mises formed a highly sophisticated theory of classes and of class conflict by distinguishing sharply between the market and the state.
Inequality, Capital, and the Problem of Piketty
Piketty’s portrayal of capitalism has not gone unchallenged, and Anti-Piketty collects a number of the most important criticisms of it.
Conflicts of Interest in Government Are More Common than You Think
The common definition of "conflict of interest" is far too narrow, and should include taking campaign contributions in exchange for political favors.
The Causes of the Revolution of 1776
The colonists regarded the State primarily as an instrument whereby one might help oneself and hurt others.
Do Taxpayers Want to Pay For Those Shut Down Government Services?
In addition to kicking the can down the deficit road year after year, the federal government employs a variety of tools to mask the true cost of government.
