Category: Editor’s Picks
Change Your Mindset
Embrace the Remix
Guest post by Kirby Ferguson.
Economic Equality
Guest post by Chesterton Cobb.
Free From What?
Guest post by Tim Nerenz. The argument for free enterprise is won at “free”. And the thing that enterprise must be liberated from is, of course, government. When people are free (from government) to produce, own, exchange, store, transport, invest, save, buy, sell, invent, work, and consume in any manner they see fit, the most…
The Genesis of the State
Guest post by Hamsterdam Economics. According to Franz Oppenheimer, the state is generated in a series of six stages. One or more of these stages may be omitted and still allow for the genesis of a state, as Oppenheimer attests with aid of historical evidence (his historical citations are way too involved to reproduce here,…
The Butcher, the Brewer, the Baker, and the Bureaucrat
Guest post by Robert Tracinski. The reason why the ideological bubble of mainstream liberalism is so resistant to being punctured is that it is part of a moral bubble: an unchallenged belief in the morality of welfare-state altruism. In the altruist worldview, supporting yourself and providing for your own needs has no moral significance, but…
The Joy of Sharing
Guest post by Scott Noelle. Imagine yourself back in the throes of puberty, and you’re madly in love with someone who doesn’t yet know how you feel… You’re at a park, enjoying an ice cream cone, when your would-be lover walks by, sees you, and smiles! You offer your beloved a bite of your ice…
How Government Creates Poverty as We Know It
Guest post by Charles Johnson. Governments—local, state, and federal—spend a lot of time wringing their hands about the plight of the urban poor. Look around any government agency and you’ll never fail to find some know-it-all with a suit and a nameplate on his desk who has just the right government program to eliminate or…
The Hidden Fallacies Behind Intervention
Guest post by Clarence B. Carson. The necessity for government to intervene in the economic realm is widely accepted today. The media of communication frequently report interventionist measures in much the same manner as they do natural occurrences. Television anchor men announce the latest intervention in the same tones that weathermen predict the winds tomorrow…