Government: Trafficking in Failure
Economists of an Austrian bent just can't take off their analytical spectacles, writes Mark Thornton, even when undertaking simple life activities like driving from here to there.
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Two Very Fashionable Frauds
Two books have become almost cult classics among the academic left, and both reveal shocking ignorance of the most elementary level of economic logic. Thomas DiLorenzo explains.
Reducing Poverty by Reducing Government
New studies and articles purport to solve the problem of poverty in America, writes George Reisman, but through the same old failed methods.
Profit, Loss, and Pluto
Why didn't private entrepreneurs finance the moon program in the 1960s? Robert Murphy explains that the financial returns from such a project wouldn’t come close to covering the expenses, which is a market signal.
End of Another Progressive-Era Relic
Historians are fond of saying that the Progressive Era ended at the end of World War I, writes William Anderson.
That Taco Bell Boycott
Well meaning or not, the boycott of Taco Bell by misguided activists, in the name of helping labor, is deeply ignorant and very destructive, writes Daniel D'Amico.
How Capitalism Saved America: The Untold History of Our Country, From the Pilgrims to the Present, by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
In a famous essay written in 1906, Werner Sombart asked, Why Is There No Socialism in the United States? Whether one agrees with his analysis, his premise cannot be disputed:
Their Crisis, Our Leviathan
The government stumbles or runs into crisis after crisis, writes Gregory Bresiger.
The New Deal Debunked (again)
It was capitalism that finally ended the Great Depression, writes Tom DiLorenzo, not FDR's hair-brained cartel, wage-increasing, unionizing, and welfare state expanding policies.
The Myth of Voluntary Unions
A basic understanding of the elementary economics of unionism, writes Tom DiLorezno, shows why violence against competitors has always been an inherent feature of unionism.
