Taxes and Spending
The New Bureaucratic Man
The supporters of socialized healthcare dream that everything will remain the same, except that someone else will pay the bill.
The Education Bubble
The average range of tuition inflation is normally 8% annually, and prices have not fallen or stabilized once since 1977, regardless of economic cl
Mercantilism as the Economic Aspect of Absolutism
As the economic aspect of state absolutism, mercantilism was of necessity a system of state-building, of big government, of heavy royal expenditure
Jean Bodin: Apex of Absolutist Thought in France
While Montaigne paved the way for the dominance of absolutist thought in France, surely the founder or at least the locus classicus of 16th-century
The Value-Added Tax Is Not the Answer
The first step on this road to lesser government and greater freedom is to see the VAT for the swindle that it is, and to send it down to defeat.
Historic Preservation vs. Private-Property Rights
The recent actions by the preservation commission against a private-property owner are nothing less than aggressive theft by a third party.
Barbecue Defined in the Process of Its Emergence
Social order is like barbecue. Both are defined in the process of their emergence.
War and Inflation: Financing the Empire
Recorded from The Mises Circle in Phoenix, Arizona, April 10th, 2010. Sponsored by James M. Rodney.
Paul Krugman and the Consumption Myth
Ultimately, the Keynesian's deficiency comes down to their lack of capital theory, which eventually leads them to believe in a very disjointed monetary theory.