U.S. Economy
Displaying 2201 - 2210 of 2327
Joys of Bundling
Thomas DiLorenzo defends tying agreements and exclusive contracts.
Presidential Power
The centralized, executive state makes corruption at the top a political inevitability.
“A Free-Market Case Against Open Immigration,” by Donald Boudreaux
Professor Donald Boudreaux, recently installed as president of the Foundation for Economic Education, is off to a bad start. He offers some thoughts on immigration which to my mind succeed only in darkening counsel on this difficult topic.
In Restraint of Trade: The Business Campaign Against Competition, 1918-1938
This extremely important study by Butler Shaffer—professor of law and economist—will change the way you think of the relationship between the state and business. It makes a deep inquiry into the attitudes of business leaders toward competition...
Out of Work: Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America
Professors Vedder and Gallaway provide a comprehensive examination of unemployment in the last century of American economic history, using a persuasive mix of Austrian theory (on money and business cycle), empirical methods, and narrative...
Capitalism and the Burger Wars
The glories of private enterprise are most evident in the marvels we take for granted. For example, free enterprise created the marvelous, if much derided, institution of fast food. If there were a bureau of hamburger production, they'd be as scarce as budget cuts. As it is, citizens of every social and economic standing have daily access—in minutes—to a balanced meal denied to kings only two centuries ago.
Making Economic Sense, by Murray Rothbard
Murray Rothbard had a remarkable ability to ask fundamental questions that others, even those within his own free-market camp, missed. After Rothbard touched an issue, it could never remain the same.
Decline Is Real, The
Middle-class incomes, the core of what we call the "standard of living," have been falling for more than two decades. Though people have known this intuitively, only recently have we heard much about it. Economists and the media have been conditioned to look for the ups and downs in the business cycle, meanwhile missing the single most ominous trend in American economic life.
