What Austrians Can Teach “Law and Economics” Scholars
Austrian scholars should not shy away from engaging mainstream law and economics scholars.
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Capitalism Doesn’t Cause Consumerism — Governments Do
It's government — not markets — that intervene to "stimulate" ever greater amounts of spending and consumption. A healthy market economy, meanwhile, relies on both saving and spending.
Why We Need Savings to Produce What We Need
The real value of saving is found in how much it supports and sustains the individuals who are engaged in various stages of production.
Gilets Jaunes: French Protesters Demand Lower Taxes and More Spending
The Gilets Jaunes are a crisis for the French state, and it remains to be seen if the French leviathan will use it to expand their powers.
No, Paul Krugman, This Shutdown is Not a “Big Libertarian Experiment”
Paul Krugman seems to think those who like freedom and free markets are somehow responsible for the current mess brought on by crippling government debt and an enormous federal budget.
How Tax Breaks for Tesla Cause Affordable-Housing Problems
Wealth creation and savings are a far better indicator for economic prosperity than the "job creation" sought by politicians who use tax incentive programs for political purposes.
Two Definitions of “Freedom” — Only One of Them Is Right
Many Americans now believe in a version of "freedom" which is nothing of the sort — because it requires more violent coercion exercised by government agents.
Decentralization Is the Solution to the Government Shutdown
Not everything needs to turn into a nationwide systemic problem when the federal government is a political mess. We ought to decentralize now to limit the damage the feds can do.
FDR’s Worst Perversion of Freedom: The “Four Freedoms” Speech
In 1944, Roosevelt revealed that the original Bill of Rights had “proved inadequate to assure us equality in the pursuit of happiness.” So he proposed to replace it with something far worse.
France’s Crisis Is the Latest In a Long History of Conflict over France’s Un-Free Markets
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.
