The Walking Dead and a Refuge from the Modern State
The Walking Dead suggests that government does not offer solutions to catastrophic problems but in fact only exacerbate them.
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Zombie Apocalypse in a ‘DC’ Comic
Zombie narratives are one of the trends toward global or cosmic catastrophes that show government as the salvation and redeemer.
Paul Cantor on the Technocratic Elite in Popular Culture
The viewing public still responds to films and television shows that champion freedom.
Orwell’s Big Brother: Merely Fiction?
Orwell’s future is run by a Party whose job is the total exercise of Power, and it goes about its job with diabolic efficiency and ingenuity.
From The Art of War to the Science of Economics
How can The Art of War help you think like an economist? Because resources are scarce we have to put the goods we do have to the best use. Sun Tzu understood that war is destruction and resources must be preserved. The only good war is one won without fighting.
Prohibition Caused the Greatness of Gatsby
Interviewed by host Barb Adams, Mark Thornton talks about ‘The Great Gatsby’, the economics of prohibition, gun control, and more.
Obamacare and Other Disasters
David Gordon gives a review of John R Lott's At the Brink: Will Obama Push Us Over the Edge?.
The Economic Sense in Game of Thrones
The Greyjoy words, “We Do Not Sow,” are a very apt description of the state, which is a fundamentally parasitic institution.
Natural Elites, Intellectuals, and the State
This monograph engages the long-running controversy about the origin of the state. Hoppe adopts the theory that extends from a Rothbardian view of the role of elites in society and their monopolistic tendencies. He further maps out a strategy...
New Austrian Journal
The Journal of Prices & Markets, published by the Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada, is a journal
