In addition to having no obligation to intervene to protect the public, government law-enforcement agencies are protected by many layers of formal immunity which allow them to both abuse their power and neglect their duties without any significant repercussions to themselves or to budgets.
Competition and cooperation and not two things in conflict. They are both essential ingredients in a society based on voluntary action instead of violence.
Africa has plenty of hard workers and plenty of natural resources. But private property is not secure there, which means few are willing to invest their capital there.
Readers will close the volume with admiration for Kirzner’s devotion to Austrian economics, immense learning, and dialectical skill
Italian fascism and German national socialism were committed to abolishing private property in practice, if not in name.
The experience with which the sciences of human action have to deal is always an experience of complex phenomena. No laboratory experiments can be performed with regard to human action.
The best EU is an EU in which free and sovereign nation-states voluntarily come together to cooperate.
Environmental activists in US politics are making it quite clear that their goal is nothing short of a socialist economic revolution.
Virtually all laws involve "legislating morality." When people use this phrase they often really just mean "I want laws to back my version of morality, not yours."
