How Government Impedes Recovery
This is your opportunity to meet Robert Higgs, hear a live lecture, and ask your own question of this remarkable thinker.
U.S. History
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The Mayo Clinic and the Free Market
Remarkably, however, the patron of the famous clinic did not have a medical license.
Out of Work
Not many Americans have heard of Richard Vedder and Lowell Gallaway, but maybe more should.
The Transformation of the American Economy, 1865-1914
The Gilded Age, lasting from 1865 to World War I, was an era of economic growth never before seen in the history of the world. The standard of living of the modern age was born during this time of phenomenal transition. Lives lengthen. Wealth...
Pseudofacts from the MSNBC Three
If the Keynesian talking heads were right, there should have been an increase in the pace of recovery in 2010.
Out, Out Damn Depression: FDR in 1938
Despite the billions and the debt, the depression was back. And it was not a new depression. It was the old one, which had not been driven away but merely hidden behind a curtain of 15 billion dollars of new government debt.
A Short History of US Credit Defaults
A credit default is not unprecedented. One occurred as early as 1777 and another as late as 1979.
Education Is More Than Instruction
The person of intelligence tends to "see things as they are," never permits his view of them to be directed by convention, by the hope of advantage, or by an irrational and arbitrary authoritarianism. His consciousness is uncontrolled by prejudice, prepossession, or formula.
Arthur Ekirch on American Militarism
The American empire bestrides the globe, leaving destruction and poverty in its wake.
