A Major Contribution to Libertarian Social Thinking
John Hasnas has written a new book outlining how societies operate with mutual cooperation and common law. According to David Gordon, it is a major contribution to libertarian social thought.
John Hasnas has written a new book outlining how societies operate with mutual cooperation and common law. According to David Gordon, it is a major contribution to libertarian social thought.
Would America’s federal government deliberately undermine recovery efforts to try to achieve its own desired political ends? Of course.
In the spirit of a new Cold War, Matthew Kroenig and Dan Negrea have written a new book, We Win, They Lose: Republican Foreign Policy and the New Cold War, which tries to fuse the foreign policies of Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump. The result is a foreign policy Frankenstein.
The dockworkers strike will increase prices while generally acting "in restraint of trade." This, we are told, is exactly what big corporations want.
In recent years we have repeatedly seen how the Federal Reserve's much-touted two-percent price-inflation goal is little more than a political slogan.
Modern historians romanticize the reign of the Tudors in England, but in reality, they were brutal to their subjects and they centralized power to the detriment of the people. Governments today continue this march against freedom.
Critics of Austrian economics often claim that real economic events are too complex to be dealt with via free markets. However, because Austrian economics is based upon understanding human action, it better explains why economic intervention routinely fails.
Tuesday night’s Vice-Presidential Debate was remarkable not for what was said (which was forgettable), but for what was not asked: What should be the proper role of government in what purports to be a free society? Neither candidates nor the moderators were interested in that question.
Einstein's name is synonymous with brilliance, yet his great intelligence did not translate to logical economic thinking. Instead, Einstein embraced socialism, thinking that one could guide an economy like one guides a mathematical equation.
Donald Trump and Elon Musk want to make the federal government more efficient. But if the true aim of our political system is not to solve the problems facing Americans but to transfer wealth to the government and the politically-connected, the government is already very efficient.