Wapshott has made a career of writing about the clash between economists who favor the free market and those who support a "mixed economy." But he shows his heart by saying that in emergencies, government must supplant the market.
Further, if solidarity is a value, why can’t the common enterprise be that people in a society share a commitment to the free market? Or is solidarity only good when people jointly do things socialists like?
In a special live seminar, Jeff Deist and Bob Murphy discuss Mises's views on interventionism and their continued relevance today, particularly after the last year and a half of economic intervention resulting from covid tyranny.
This is a special virtual seminar for donors to our fall campaign. Jeff Deist and Bob Murphy will discuss Mises's views on interventionism and their continued relevance today.
The Soviet Union in 1991 was dissolved. Murray Rothbard explains how socialism and central planning led to the economic collapse.
Presented at Mises University 2021.
In the fall of 2016, I was a left communist. As any Marxist can tell you, ideology can blind one to the insights that might disrupt one’s political adhesions. Only it was Marxist ideology itself that blinded me.
It's fairly easy to destroy the spontaneously created institutions and groups that make up a well-functioning society. But it is nearly impossible to rebuild them once they're destroyed by central planners.
Using an unbiased rubric to evaluate political doctrines reveals that spectrum polarization depends on three conditions: attitudes toward private property, individual freedom, and wealth redistribution.
