Friday, February 28, 2025

TGIF: The Aim of Classical Liberalism

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These are dark days for liberalism. I mean full, across-the-board, laissez-faire free-market, classical liberalism, otherwise known as liber...
Friday, February 21, 2025

TGIF: Free the Housing Market!

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Economist Bryan Caplan has done it again. His latest graphic nonfiction book is Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regula...
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Monday, February 17, 2025

National Greatness

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“A nation which makes greatness its polestar can never be free; beneath national greatness sink individual greatness, honor, wealth and free...
Friday, February 14, 2025

TGIF: Emergency! Emergency?

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Look, as a libertarian I think the list of federal entities to be abolished soon should include the: Consumer Financial Protection Board, Fe...
Saturday, February 08, 2025

Abolish Antitrust!

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"That there is inequality of ability or monetary income on the free market should surprise no one. As we have seen above, men are not “...
Friday, February 07, 2025

TGIF: Free Speech Restored?

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Don't get accustomed to me praising Donald Trump, but exceptions will occur now and then. Trump is no principled friend of liberty, not ...
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Wednesday, February 05, 2025

Back on the Bob Murphy Show!

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Friday, January 31, 2025

TGIF: Birthright Citizenship and the Constitution

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All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.... — U.S. ...
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Friday, January 24, 2025

TGIF: Why McKinley?

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Now what will hasten the day when our present advantages will wear out and when we shall come down to the conditions of the older and densel...
Friday, January 17, 2025

TGIF: The H-1B Controversy

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Does anyone still believe that the market process should set prices, including wages? Apparently not. Take the controversy surrounding the H...
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Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Production Is Spiritual, Not Material

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"Production is not an act of creation; it does not bring about something that did not exist before. It is a transformation of given ele...
Friday, January 10, 2025

TGIF: Efficient Bureaucracy?

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With all the talk about government efficiency, it would be useful to remind ourselves why bureaucracies differ radically from for-profit bus...
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Saturday, January 04, 2025

Competition Is Cooperation

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"The pricing process is a social process. It is consummated by an interaction of all members of the society. All collaborate and cooper...
Friday, January 03, 2025

TGIF: Capitalist Exploitation or Interest?

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The completely just proposition that the worker is to receive the entire value of his product can be reasonably interpreted to mean either t...
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Crucial Economic Calculation

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"The advocates of totalitarianism consider 'capitalism' a ghastly evil, an awful illness that came upon mankind. In the eyes of...
Thursday, January 02, 2025

Which Came First: The Individual or the Group?

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"It is illusory to believe that it is possible to visualize collective wholes. They are never visible; their cognition is always the ou...
Wednesday, January 01, 2025

The Socialist Spirit

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"Of course, not Marxists alone, but most of those who emphatically declare themselves anti-Marxists, think entirely on Marxist lines an...
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Production for Profit Is Production for People, part 2

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"In his capacity as a businessman a man is a servant of the consumers, bound to comply with their wishes. He cannot indulge in his own ...
Monday, December 30, 2024

Production for Profit Is Production for People

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"Profit and loss can be expressed in definite amounts of money. It is possible to ascertain in terms of money how much an individual ha...
Sunday, December 29, 2024

Freedom and Competition

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"The freedom of man under capitalism is an effect of competition. The worker does not depend on the good graces of an employer. If his ...