Legal System

Once again, we are back to trusting the government to protect us, even at a time when property owners are begging for the right to provide their own protection.

It is no surprise that in our current crisis we see economic fallacies calling for "temporary" government interventions in the economy popping up like mushrooms after a rain. 

In a market economy, marginally "superior" technology-where it can be objectively defined-doesn't necessarily end up dominating, and that's the way it should be.

Alan Bock's book, Waiting to Inhale, gives readers an inside look at the forces behind the movement to give medical patients access to the legal use of marijuana.

What happens when organized labor strikes against another union, and not against a private firm?  

Why do economists like Becker and others who say they favor free markets blindly support antitrust laws in all of their wretched excesses?  

A private rental-car company tries to protect its assets by enforcing speed limits. The state seriously objects. 

It's true that antitrust is inefficient. More fundamentally, it is an attack on private property rights. William Anderson explains. 

The purpose of the Patients' Bill of Rights is to destroy HMOs and pave the way for the complete socialization of American health care. William Anderson explains. 

A federal judge rules: No drilling allowed. Tibor Machan explains why this is not a "victory for the California coast."