Resurrecting the Failed Policy of Rent Control
When it comes to housing, the solution to the problem of affordability is rather straightforward: build more. Slapping price controls on housing in the form of “rent control” only makes things worse.
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Why More Secession Means Lower Taxes and More Trade
In recent decades, there is scant evidence to suggest that post-secession breakaway countries raise trade barriers or raise taxes more than larger status quo states. In fact, smaller states are more likely to see the benefits of international cooperation.
Good Logic Prevents Bad Regulation
Much government regulation — and especially what we saw during the covid era — is downright illogical and produces harmful results. Perhaps some simple logic is in order.
Mises and Popper on Action
While Ludwig von Mises and Karl Popper disagreed on methodology, but Brian Gladish believes that perhaps their viewpoints were not as divergent as their followers suggest.
Reflections on the Rothbard Graduate Seminar
The Rothbard Graduate Seminar (RGS) provides an opportunity to learn about Austrian economics at a high level.
When Nationalism Fuels Decentralization and Secession: Lessons from the Cold War
If we say secession in the name of national liberation is bad, we end up supporting the Soviet Union, and every empire or two-bit dictator who manages to hammer together a variety of disparate groups under a single national banner.
Privatizing Roads Solves the Problem of Road Closures
All of us have experienced government road closures and the traffic and safety nightmares they create. Private roads may be the answer to solving the problem.
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How the American Revolution Turned North American Foreign Trade on Its Head
After peace came in 1783, the new republic faced a twofold economic adjustment: to peacetime from the artificial production and trade patterns during the war, and to a far different trading picture than had existed before the war.
