The Chinese Exclusion Act Was An Assault on Private Property
Many private employers were contracting with Chinese workers to move to California and work. And then Congress outlawed the contracts.
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Mises Killed Homo Economicus Long before Thaler
Long ago, Ludwig von Mises recognized that we aren’t all calculating businessmen.
These Feminist Economists Are Right about GDP
GDP ignores household production such as childcare and housework. And that's just one of many problems.
Subsidies In One Place Don’t Justify Tariffs in Another
Imposing tariffs against subsidized foreign goods only swaps one bad government policy with another.
Can a Modern Central Bank Still Be a “Banker’s Bank”?
The culture of central banking has ventured so far from a culture of restraint that it's unlikely anything but abolition will now fix matters.
How Trump Bailed Out Janet Yellen and the Federal Reserve — For Now
The biggest winner of the Trump presidency is also the most surprising: Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen.
Neo-Liberalism: From Laissez-Faire to the Interventionist State
Neo-Liberalism’s origins and consequences point toward the need for a new agenda: one that recognizes the ideals of the voluntary civil society.
How Much Do Central Banks Cost Us?
Anti-gold advocates claim that precious metals are wasteful. This is hardly convincing when we look at the fat budgets and payrolls of central banks.
Mises, Rothbard, and Catalonia
Like Mises, Rothbard does not require a seceding group to be classical liberal in orientation in order to secede.
Tax Cuts Without Spending Cuts Won’t Grow the Economy
The presence of central banks allows governments to cut tax rates without actually cutting effective taxation.
