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Net Neutrality Strengthens Monopolies, Invites Corruption

Big GovernmentBureaucracy and Regulation

Blog07/17/2017Ryan McMaken

Government regulation has long been an easy way for large firms to drive the smaller competition out of business. Net neutrality is no different.

Natural-Law Libertarianism and the Pursuit of Justice

Legal SystemPhilosophy and MethodologyPolitical Theory

Blog06/07/2017Chris Calton

Before endorsing a legal system, libertarians must first figure out what justice is. The natural-law framework is one way of figuring this out.

NFL Teams are Right to Blackball Colin Kaepernick

Free Markets

Blog05/18/2017Tho Bishop

Kaepernick's protests alienated the NFL's consumers. Football may be king — but the customer is always right.

Napolitano: The GOP Didn't Touch the Core of Obamacare

HealthPolitical Theory

Blog05/10/2017Ryan McMaken

The GOP Obamacare repeal did nothing to repeal the four core premises of Obamacare and federal control of health care.

Neil Ty, The Scientism Guy

Big GovernmentEducationHealth

Blog04/24/2017Jonathan Newman

DeGrasse Tyson is leading a dangerous anti-intellectual movement that conflates science with scientism, all to promote government-enforced "solutions."

New Japanese Translations of The Case Against the Fed and The Essential Rothbard

Blog04/19/2017Mises Institute

Tatsuya Iwakura — translator of many works by Mises and Rothbard into Japanese — has completed two new translations now available on Amazon.

Nudges for Thee, But Not for Me

Calculation and KnowledgeEntrepreneurshipInterventionism

Blog04/07/2017Peter G. Klein

To most observers, nudging sounds like clever management techniques. The power to nudge by the state, however, is an entirely different matter.

NFL Free Agency and the Market Process

Free MarketsEntrepreneurshipPrices

Blog03/09/2017Tho Bishop

Any serious analysis of the NFL is incomplete without a sound understanding of basic economics.

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The Problem with "Just Do What the Cops Say and You Won't Get Hurt"

Ryan McMaken

Apologists for police abuse often claim that if a citizen complies with police orders and does what he's told, then he won't get hurt. The evidence says otherwise.

The Plutocrats of Wall Street and Silicon Valley Are Scamming America

Ryan McMaken

Free market advocates long ago figured out that the monied classes of bankers and Wall Street operatives were exploiting the "little people" to prop up the fortunes of what is now the billionaire class. The scam is alive and well today.

America’s "Great Men" and the Constitutional Convention

Murray N. Rothbard

The nationalists in favor of a new constitution in 1787 sent their richest, most schooled, and most "distinguished" men. Fortunately for them, ceteris paribus, the more distinguished any given gathering, the more statist and reactionary it will likely be.

The Plan to Save the the Postal Service by Making It Even Worse

Doug French

The post office can't seem to balance its books. So like all monopolists, the postal service plans to "improve" things by increasing prices and making its service even worse.

The Interesting Case of the Zaïre—the Question MMT Cannot Answer

Eric Nies

The case of the zaïre currency in the Democratic Republic of the Congo provides strong anecdotal evidence discounting the fiat currency–obsessed modern monetary theory.

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Carmen Elena Dorobăț

Dr. Carmen Elena Dorobăț is a Fellow of the Mises Institute and Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at Manchester...