Lyndon Johnson’s Terrible Legacy
Johnson's political philosophy is alive and well today. The US government spends freely on welfare programs at home, and on unwinnable wars abroad.
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We’re Living in the Age of Capital Consumption
It remains to be seen how much longer this can continue. Once the stock of capital is depleted, the rude awakening will be unpleasant indeed.
Is Behavioral Economics Good Economics?
Behavioral economists, while criticizing the mainstream economics for not being realistic, treats human beings as automatons.
Leftist Billionaires Virtue-Signal on Tax Cuts
The right to the product of one’s own labor is not in conflict with compassion and charity.
“Economic Development” Is a Corporate Welfare Scheme
Taxpayers are being ripped off to help companies that apparently can't turn a profit without some help from the government.
The Tuskegee Experiment at 45: Have Public-Health Programs Been Vindicated?
Public health officials have a long history of ignoring basic human rights.
Hayek on Good and Bad Unemployment Policies
One of the obstacles to a successful employment policy is, paradoxically, that it is so easy to reduce unemployment, at least in the short term.
Austrian Student Scholars Conference, Feb. 16-17, 2018
Grove City College will host the fourteenth annual Austrian Student Scholars Conference, February 16-17, 2018.
Duties Imposed Against Chinese “Dumping” Hurt American Consumers
Democrats and Republicans all need to get over this mercantilist obsession over an imbalance of trade.
