Venezuela’s Crisis: What’s Oil Got to Do with It?
Oil prices did not cause the Venezuelan crisis. Nor can oil now be its cure.
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Soviet Dissidents and the Weaponization of Psychiatry
Sadly, the practice of branding political opponents as “insane” is not confined to the now-defunct Soviet state.
Let’s Defend Capitalism
Capitalism — not democracy — is what gives us the blessings we have come to associate with a free society. So it is markets and not democracy that we must defend.
A Brief History of French Socialists
France did not adopt collectivism overnight. Rather, it has seen key periods that have made France fertile soil for a certain brand of aggressive socialism.
The Economist Promoting Austrian Economics in Venezuela
Dr. Daniel Lahoud has single-handedly introduced hundreds of Venezuelan students to the ideas of Mises and Hayek.
Social Democracy
Much more so than any theoretical argument, it has been the disappointing experience with Russian-type socialism which has led to a constant decline in the popularity of orthodox Marxist socialism and has spurred the emergence and development of...
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Why Free Markets Are Better than Globalism
For Quinn Slobodian, economic arguments for the market are mere business propaganda. He does not grasp that the argument for free exchange follows from elementary economic theory.
Capitalism Makes Us More Humane
Why is it that starving Venezuelans are eating dogs while Americans are rescuing dogs from hurricanes?
Yes, Inequality Is a Problem — When Caused by the Government
Some inequality arises naturally from freedom of choice. Some comes from government meddling. One is good and the other is bad.
The President’s Economic Betrayal
In this 1971 New York Times editorial, Murray Rothbard described how, under Nixon's "New Economic Policy," "fascism came to America."
