World History

The right to property was not included in Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms. And it shows.

Under capitalism, the common man was no longer a drudge who had to be satisfied with the crumbs that fell from the tables of the rich.

Anthony de Jasay, an important  free market  economist and political philosopher passed away on January 23.

As a government economist for Austria following WWI, Mises fought a losing battle against reckless policies of inflation and government spending.

Although hardly "free-market" in any doctrinaire way, the relatively free economy of Taiwan delivered immense growth in standards of living while many Chinese on the mainland starved.

The Venezuelan central bank helped the regime destroy the middle class's wealth for many years.

The academic scholar, along with the great teacher, is vanishing from the universities and being replaced by one-dimensional specialists.

Emmanuel Macron said he wanted to make France more free and more competitive. But his failed tax increase on gasoline shows just how fragile reform attempts are in France.

The socialist and anti-liberal movements we now face comes to use from intellectuals, aristocrats, and other elites. The "proletariat" has had no role in devising the movements we're told serve the interests of "the people."

No such thing as a "natural" monopoly has ever existed. In real life, so-called "public utilities" faced frequent competition, so they secured government monopolies to destroy the competition and invented the myths to rationalize their monopoly power.