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Prompted by an online debate about whether economics belongs with the hard sciences, Bob reviews common defenses of mainstream practice and explains why they...
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Prompted by an online debate about whether economics belongs with the hard sciences, Bob reviews common defenses of mainstream practice and explains why they...
Keynesian orthodoxy claims that the cause of recessions is a decline in so-called aggregate demand. Besides confusing cause-and-effect, Keynesians don’t understand that downturns are...
Roger Williams, the Baptist minister whose libertarian views ran afoul of the Massachusetts Bay Colony authorities, should be honored as one of this country’s...
Inflation is not just an economic phenomenon. It also undercuts the foundations of a civilization, leading to the breakdown of society itself.
Many Americans are convinced that only government can provide useful science since government is supposed to be “neutral,” not corrupted by profit seeking. However,...
What do we mean by “individualism” in the American tradition? It is not separatist or atomistic, but rather freedom from having state actors running...
The Dutch Tulip Bulb Mania of the 1630s continues to fascinate, especially given the recent asset bubbles our economy has experienced. What caused this...
How best to present libertarian thinking? Libertarians should not depend just on logic, but also upon presenting libertarian ideals in a practical and useful...
This week, Dr. David Gordon reviews Ivan Eland’s A Balance of Titans. While admiring Eland’s call for less intervention, Dr. Gordon asks why the...
f the individual cannot keep what they earn, cannot build, cannot invest, cannot act without permission, then the income from tourism is nothing but...
Popular views of capitalism and free markets are not shaped by the facts, but rather by anti-capitalist intellectuals and the media.
As government spending spins out of control, the Federal Reserve continues to inflate, leaving the economy in a permanent state of inflation. Most Americans...
The US military has been drawing up plans to launch strikes on Venezuela and potentially capture strategic ports and airfields on the path to...