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At first blush, incarceration would seem to involve a loss of physical mobility – you have to stay in the prison all day and all night.

When I saw the title of this Cato podcast–“Intellectual Property Versus Reason”

I don’t know what it is about the Nobel Prize that makes economists fall in love with John Maynard Keynes, but once again I see a Nobel winne

Michael Rozeff has a surprising analysis where he lays out a few convincing arguments that gold prices are too high right now, relative to other prices.

Our dear friend Larry Sechrest, professor of economics at Sul Ross University, and a long-time writer and speaker for economic liberty, died this m

An expanded version for The New American of my recent article on the Flat Tax is no

For months Alex Tabarrok has being doing a great job yelling to all the world that this “credit crunch” is bogus.

[From a talk given to a Memphis-area discussion group on Tuesday, October 14, 2008.]

Three economists for the Minneapolis Fed have written a paper called “Myths about the

In another thread here, a commentor asks, “What, exactly, is un-libertarian about “loser pa