Free Markets

This essay presents a conceptual and moral rather than an economic analysis of “baby-selling.” Its purpose is to address certain fundam

When studying the origins of the Austrian School, one is often struck by the influence played by Catholic thinkers and culture during the centuries leading up to the publication of Menger’s Principles.

“Coase, get your cattle off my land.” –Walter Block 

The point to be emphasized in this paper is that if one starts with a different view of efficiency and market optimality, an entirely different set

Re-Thinking Green: Alternatives to Environmental Bureaucracy is an excellent book of easy-reading essays dealing with environmental policy from the perspective of “free-market environmentalism” 

The existence of common property in anarcho-capitalism naturally points to the interesting policy question of how this common property would be con

Illegal activities in the private sector arise because the market mechanism is not allowed to perform its allocative functions.

One might ask: why has there been so little consideration of nonviolent resistance among libertarians?

Central planning and state control are often cast aside as inferior replacements to far more efficient and humane voluntary market transactions.

In this article, Nortbert Lennartz reviews Michael van Notten’s The Law of the Somalis: A Stable Foundation for Economic Development in t