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Category: Free Markets

Optimistic about the Future of Liberty

May 23, 2017 Morgan Aldous

This morning, after a little reflection, I’m more optimistic than ever about the future of liberty. There are so many great companies, organizations, and technologies that enable us to throw off the shackles of the state and its allied institutions.

Free Markets

Spontaneous Order is Not an Engineered Outcome

April 21, 2017April 21, 2017 Editor's Pick

I’m convinced that the kind of laws, customs, and government that reign at any time in a society largely reflect that society’s ideologies. If I am correct about this matter, then libertarianism – just like “Progressivism,” Nazism, Talibanism, or any other ism – cannot be imposed in a way that lasts for any length of time.

Free Markets

23 Ways Big Government Is Hurting the Poor

April 20, 2017April 20, 2017 Editor's Pick

Advocates for big government often equate expanding government with concern for the poor. But reality speaks to the contrary: Expanding government often has very harmful effects on the poor.

Free Markets

Markets and Politics Are Both about Scarcity

March 30, 2017March 30, 2017 Editor's Pick

People succeed in markets by reducing scarcity–that is, by easing scarcity’s grip on their fellow humans. And the more they ease scarcity’s grip, the greater their success. Profits are earned in competitive markets only by successfully making desired goods and services less scarce than they would otherwise be.

Free Markets

The Tangled Web of Anti-immigration Argumentation

March 29, 2017July 13, 2017 Robert Higgs

So, which is it, anti-immigrationist: is the government too incompetent to exclude ineligible recipients from getting benefits, or is it too incompetent to keep illegal immigrants out the the country—or is it both?

Against Leviathan, Free Markets

There’s Nothing Special about International Trade

March 29, 2017March 29, 2017 Editor's Pick

“One of the important applications of the principle of comparative advantage is international trade. To an economist there is nothing really special about international trade; individuals make trades when both of them expect to benefit, whether they live across the street, in different states, or in different countries.”

Free Markets

Liberty and Community Go Together

March 26, 2017 Editor's Pick

There is a form of community that is the whole basis of the market economy. It is an extended network of human relationships worked out in peace and mutual agreement. So far as we know, the capacity to form such cooperative relationships is distinct to the human experience.

Free Markets

Why Can’t You Pay For Sex?

March 25, 2017 Editor's Pick

Consensual sex is legal. But as soon as one party offers cash to another in exchange for sex and that money is voluntarily accepted, it’s considered prostitution, and that is illegal. This is hypocritical, illogical, and wasteful — and it needs to stop.

Free Markets

In Praise of Immigrants

March 25, 2017March 16, 2019 Editor's Pick

Three new technologies of the last 20 years made America’s economy great again: the iPhone, Google search, and horizontal drilling and fracturing. All came from first-generation immigrants.

Free Markets

Is a National Government Necessary for National Defense?

March 23, 2017July 13, 2017 Robert Higgs

Gordon Tullock used to taunt anarchists by asserting that if the USA abolished its government, people would not have to worry about the Russians taking over the country because “the Mexicans would get here first.”

Against Leviathan, Free Markets

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