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"All the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and . . . the State should be abolished." —Benjamin Tucker

"You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself." —James Madison

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Friday, May 09, 2025

TGIF: On the Importance of Undesigned Order

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Carl Menger, the founder of the Austrian approach to economics, was not the first or last thinker to see similarities between a society and ...

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Friday, April 25, 2025

TGIF: More on Menger on Value

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Consumer goods are also called finished goods . The products we buy at the supermarket and other retail stores have, in less finished form, ...

Friday, April 18, 2025

TGIF: Menger on Trade

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Even when a line on a map separates two individuals, trade is still trade—that is, mutually beneficial cooperation. Whether the line separat...

Friday, April 11, 2025

TGIF: The Objectively Invaluable Menger

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Many people are uneasy with the free market. I think that's because they subscribe, implicitly if not explicitly, to the labor theory of...

Friday, April 04, 2025

TGIF: The Great Carl Menger

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There can be no doubt among competent historians that if ... the Austrian School has occupied an almost unique position in the development o...

Friday, January 16, 2009

"I, Pencil" Revisited

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Leonard Read’s classic essay, "I, Pencil," which is now 50 years old, is justly celebrated as the best short introduction to the...

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Sheldon Richman: Father, grandfather, writer, editor, pipe smoker, free thinker, libertarian market anarchist, grouser, flosser. Author of six books, including "America's Counter-Revolution: The Constitution Reconsidered"; "Coming to Palestine"; and "What Social Animals Owe to Each Other."

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