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How Capitalists — Unlike Environmentalists — Make Life Easier for the Disabled

Blog04/08/2019Ryan McMaken

Many products — delivered by the marketplace — that are mocked as "useless," and which environmentalists denounce as "wasteful" are essential items in the daily lives of many disabled people.

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Wilsonianism: The Legacy that Won't Die

U.S. HistoryWar and Foreign PolicyInterventionismPolitical Theory

04/06/2019The Journal of Libertarian StudiesPaul Gottfried

As Americans it behooves us to reassess the Wilsonian democratic legacy. More than an ephemeral aspect of our national past, it may be the fate that we have never escaped.

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Free Trade: A Key to a Rising Standard of Living

Protectionism and Free Trade

Blog04/06/2019Jacob G. Hornberger

The right to trade with foreigners without government interference is a God-given fundamental human right, not morally subject to the whims of those who want trade wars to protect their own interests.

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Elizabeth Warren's Antitrust Crusade: A New Progressive War on Wealth

Cronyism and CorporatismU.S. EconomyMonopoly and Competition

Blog04/06/2019Dominick Armentano

In their war on "monopolies," Progressives like Elizabeth Warren show they don't understand the history of anti-monopoly legislation, and they also don't understand that modern day "monopolies" aren't really monopolies at all.

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The Deep State Campaign for War with Russia

Book ReviewsWar and Foreign Policy

Blog04/05/2019David Gordon

David Gordon reviews the book War with Russia? From Putin & Ukraine to Trump & Russiagate. By Stephen F. Cohen.

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Keynes and the Versailles Treaty's Infamous "Article 231"

Blog04/05/2019Edward W. Fuller

Historians have neglected the role of John Maynard Keynes in writing some of the worst provisions of the Versailles treaty — which sowed the seeds of World War II.

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Alberta's Regional Carbon Tax Is a Recipe for Disaster

The EnvironmentTaxes and Spending

Blog04/05/2019Robert P. Murphy

If Canadian provinces (or US states) implement a regional carbon tax, they shouldn’t fool themselves that they are “doing the right thing.” Households and businesses will suffer from higher energy prices and slower economic growth, with very little to show for it.

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Capitalism (aka Self-Ownership) Is the Only Moral Economic System

Blog04/05/2019Gary Galles

Capitalism isn't just about rich guys owning the means of production. It's about workers and everyday people also owning their own labor and their own bodies.

Misesian Insight: Cantillon Effects and Financialization

Carmen Elena Dorobăț

A important factor in wealth redistribution has been the increased participation of both financial and non-financial firms in financial markets.

Hysteria Over School Safety Won't Keep Us Safe

James Bovard

The #NeverAgain movement that arose after last year’s Parkland shootings ignores how government officials cannot be trusted to behave honestly or responsibly to save student lives.

Yes, Julian Assange Is a Journalist — But That Shouldn't Matter

Ryan McMaken

The Bill of Rights doesn't mention that freedom of speech is restricted to a special class of establishment journalists. Freedom of speech is a universal property right, regardless of what the establishment-media gatekeepers say.

Bernie Tells America: Pull Yourself up by Your Bootstraps!

Ryan McMaken

Bernie Sanders justifies his millions this way: he worked for it by writing a book. He also says that if you write a book, you could be a millionaire too. It's just that easy!

The Economic Recessions of the Late 1970s and Early 1990s

Jesús Huerta de Soto

The most characteristic feature of post-WWII business cycles is that they have originated in deliberately inflationary policies directed by central banks.