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Benjamin Franklin Was All Wet on Economics
Further, the idea that the quantity of money is important to trade is incorrect. The market does not desire a certain quantity of money.
Contra Spooner
The inability of modern philosophers to furnish any kind of argument for the maintenance of a government is a notorious weakness.
Give a Penny, Take a Penny
With the cumulative effects of inflation, the face values of our coins no longer has any relation to historic commodity value.
The Anarchist Society vs. the Military State: The Insignificance of the Free Rider
Delivered at the Mises Institute on July 6, 2006.
No Fourth of July Celebration at The New York Times/Pravda
The New York Times does not mention Independence Day on its editorial page on the 4th of July.
Depression, War, and Cold War
If you have ever wondered how much of the official story of the last fifty years is correct, Higgs makes it clear: your worst suspicions are correct. The official statistics are little more than fiction. The level of corruption in the warfare...
10. Is Voluntary Government Possible?
Walter Block and Tom DiLorenzo have looked at Constitutional Economics, and determined that politics are not just another market. There is only a curious analogy to the public choice approach. Social contract theory has been used as an excuse for all types of state intervention.
8. Labor Market Superstitions
There are labor market myths and there are labor union myths. The biggest myth is that capitalists always exploit the working class. Basic economics about marginal productivity theory contradicts this. Examples abound in all areas.
9. The Truth about the Great Depression
The interventionist myth is that Federal meddling in domestic or foreign economics can make anything better. Instead, meddling produced the American Great Depression. Doing nothing with a depression in 1920 produced resolution within eighteen months. Nobody hears of the depression of 1920-21.
