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5 Unintended Consequences of Regulation and Government Meddling
Reprinted from the Freeman Voters frequently support measures that sound noble and beneficial but end up causing serious mischief — and often hurt the very groups the measures were intended to help. A...
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Orwell’s Big Brother: Merely Fiction?
[Rothbard’s review of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eight-Four (Harcourt, 1949) appeared in Analysis, September 1949, p. 4] In recent years, many writers have given us their vision of the coming...
View ArticleOh, the horror of cheaper Chinese goods!
Re: Cheaper Chinese Currency Has Global Impact China’s money dictators have decided to put all Chinese exports on sale, allowing people in foreign countries to buy more Chinese goods for the same...
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The Market and the State
Originally published in German in 1968. Reprinted from Mises.org For every species of animals and plants the means of subsistence are limited. Hence every living being’s vital interests are implacably...
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The Man Who Almost Stopped Julius Caesar
Reprinted from the Freeman In the estimations of many historians, two men hold the honor as the most notable defenders of the Roman Republic. Marcus Tullius Cicero was one. Marcus Porcius Cato, or...
View ArticleMy letter to The Times, London re: Legal tender laws protect unsound money
Dear Sirs: I will not take the time required to refute point-by-point Mr. Ed Conway’s latest attack upon a gold-backed currency. It is obvious that he is completely ignorant of monetary theory and...
View ArticleMy letter to the Financial Times, London re: The FT sides with counterfeiters...
Re: The case for retiring another barbarous relic Dear Sirs: I was appalled at your supposed “case” for eliminating cash, which you yourselves describe as the peoples’ “go-to safe asset”. And what IS...
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Captured, Cuffed, and Jailed: A Personal Story
Reprinted from Liberty.me It was a lovely day otherwise but, for me, most of it was spent in jail. From one minute to the next, I went from seemingly free to cuffed and captured. Anyone who has ever...
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The Righteous Bosses of the New Deal
[The Roosevelt Myth (1948)] Reprinted from Mises.org There never has been in American politics a religion so expansively and luminously righteous as the New Deal. From the beginning to the end it was...
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Gun Control: Controlling the Government’s Guns Part 1
This essay originally appeared on the author’s blog on August 24, 2012 and was later included in his collection The Benevolent Nature of Capitalism and Other Essays. In the interval, it was reproduced...
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Gun Control: Controlling the Government’s Guns Part 2
This essay originally appeared on the author’s blog on August 24, 2012 and was later included in his collection The Benevolent Nature of Capitalism and Other Essays. In the interval, it was reproduced...
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What Price a Planned Economy?
This article was originally published in the Contemporary Review of London, April 1938. It was reprinted in American Affairs, Vol. 7, No. 33 (1945). Reprinted from Mises.org The link between classical...
View ArticleThe Problem with Milk Protectionism
On September 29, raw milk producers, mostly from Ontario and Quebec, protested on Wellington Street in Ottawa in front of the Parliament buildings. Their concern about the possibility of increased...
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Climate Change, Renewable Resources and Economics
Many socialists have conveniently repackaged themselves as environmentalists and latched onto climate change as a convenient means to preach the standard socialist agenda of planning and control. These...
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Why We’re Still Debating the Decades-Old Crude-Oil Ban
Reprinted from the Freeman The decades-old ban on crude oil exports is anachronistic, completely disregards basic economics, and on top of it all, arguably makes gasoline more expensive for American...
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Why Flee Equality?
Reprinted from PanAm Post When discussing the exodus of peoples from communist regimes such as Cuba’s, it is common practice to describe their escape as a flight from oppression, or a search for...
View ArticleThe logic of sovereignty and unilateral free trade
From today’s Open Europe news summary: FT: UK pushing for ‘emergency brake’ on EU laws to safeguard rights of non-Eurozone countries The Financial Times reports that the UK is seeking to obtain an...
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How Government Makes Natural Disasters Worse
Reprinted from the Freeman An earthquake or hurricane always generates an inspiring rush of private generosity. People are never more willing to help their neighbors than when they are casualties of...
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