Guest post by Eric Peters. The other day I had a chat with a neighbor friend. He posed a rhetorical question, “You do believe some taxes are necessary, right?” Rather than debate the merits of this or that tax, this or that function funded by taxes – I merely replied that as a non-violent person…
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What is Entrepreneurship?
Guest post by jdellape. [In] real life, entrepreneurs within different firms are not in perfect competition and do not have accurate production curves that they can passively follow. Rather, they must take actions which they feel will lead to the best outcomes for the firm.Read the full thing »
How Prices Are Determined
Guest post by Percy L. Greaves, Jr. There was once a Russian school child whose cat had a family of kittens. When asked to write a paper for her class, the child wrote about the mother cat and the kittens. The next day she read her paper to the class. In it she told about…
Hot, Fresh, and Fighting
Guest post by Illinois Policy Institute.
Intellectual Property and Economic Development
Guest post by Stephan Kinsella.
Natural-born Scientists
Myth and Truth About Libertarianism
Guest post by Murray Rothbard. Libertarianism is the fastest growing political creed in America today. Before judging and evaluating libertarianism, it is vitally important to find out precisely what that doctrine is, and, more particularly, what it is not. It is especially important to clear up a number of misconceptions about libertarianism that are held…
The Child-Driven Education
Guest post by Sugata Mitra.
A Baby Cries: How Should Parents Respond?
Guest post by Jan Hunt. Imagine for a moment that you have been abducted by space ship to a distant planet, and you are surrounded by giant strangers whose language you do not speak. Two of those strangers take you under their care. You are entirely dependent on them for the satisfaction of all your…
Confronting the Myth of Gun Control
Guest post by Faisal Moghul. In the wake of the Batman massacre in Aurora, Colorado, and now the Sikh Temple attack in Oak Tree, Wisconsin, the mainstream media’s propaganda blitz has predictably inundated the airwaves with the conventional, yet fallacious, orthodoxy that more guns equal more armed crime. Against this backdrop, some lawmakers have sought…