Progressives claim that the state grants us our rights, and that liberty can flourish only in the presence of a powerful state. The truth runs in the opposite direction.
-
-
Vegas expected Renato “Sound Money” Moicano to lose his UFC fight against Benoit Saint Denis. Instead, he won and used the opportunity to promote the work of another Austrian economist.…
-
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…
-
Trump’s tax reform just replaces one tax with another. And would probably result in higher taxes.
-
With Kamala Harris announcing she is open to imposing “reparations for slavery” if elected president, it is time to take a hard look at the injustice that would be part…
-
Jeffrey Miron To a first approximation, economic policies target one of two objectives: efficiency (growing the economic pie) or redistribution (reallocating the economic pie). Alas, most politicians favor the latter,…
-
James A. Dorn In October 1994, I was a visiting scholar at Fudan University in Shanghai. During my stay, I gave a series of lectures and received the Chinese edition…
-
Amendment 79 isn’t about legalizing abortion. It’s about ripping off the taxpayers.
-
The common perception is that businesses set prices at a level that always earns them profits. However, as Carl Menger first pointed out in 1871, the process of determining value…
-
As the Federal Reserve engineers one financial bubble after another, we are reminded that the Austrian Business Cycle Theory explains what is happening and how there is a better way.