Guest Column

Gouging, Free Markets, and the Psychology of Fuel

By promoting the individual development and harnessing of fuel, we can avoid the pitfalls posed by centralized control.

25Jul2011 | | 6 comments | Continued

He’s No Bruce Lee

It would appear that we have a market failure of sorts: folks of wildly varying skills claiming to be black belts, some able to give a Bruce Lee performance, others looking more pathetic than potent.

20Jul2011 | | 10 comments | Continued

The Threat Is in the Spending

The lack of a plan to control government spending poses a much greater threat to America’s credit standing than uncertainty over whether the debt limit will be raised.

6Jul2011 | | 22 comments | Continued

Cheering on My Rival

In the free market, where peaceful social interactions have replaced government interventions, even our rival is our ally.

29Jun2011 | | 2 comments | Continued

Making Whistle-Blowing Pay

The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced rules for its new corporate whistleblower program. The mind boggles at the incentives they establish.

21Jun2011 | | 6 comments | Continued

Food Debate: Stick to Persuasion

The vibrant social debate over what makes for good food and where to get it is an excellent one to have. But let’s keep it (and the choices people make) out in the open, not behind the counter of the State.

15Jun2011 | | 7 comments | Continued

Local Food Makes Strange Dining Companions

Ironically enough, while many so-called liberals express skepticism about laissez-faire economies, they are the first to indignantly resist intrusion by bureaucrats into local farmers’ markets.

1Jun2011 | | 14 comments | Continued

Boombustology: A Review

Boombustology is a worthwhile read for anyone who seeks a better understanding of business cycles.

25May2011 | | 5 comments | Continued

Civil War and the American Political Economy: Response to a Critic

When there are important material interests at work, they necessarily enter into an historical explanation.

16May2011 | | 7 comments | Continued

Wolf Heads and Carbon Credits

Something tells me, deep inside, that managed overreaction to carbon emissions will lead just as surely to the kind of devastating policies that gave us wolves-as-an-endangered-species.

9May2011 | | 14 comments | Continued

A Tale of Two Situations

It would be wonderful to live in a world where selling a chicken and remodeling a shed weren’t rife with official allegations or burdened with state prohibitions.

4May2011 | | 11 comments | Continued

An Act of Self-Defense: A Review

Like Ayn Rand, Erne Lewis gives us heroes who are inspirational and yet of this world.

2May2011 | | 9 comments | Continued

Richard Cornuelle (1927-2011)

Richard Cornuelle passed away early Tuesday morning. He was one of the true princes of the modern classical liberal movement.

29Apr2011 | | 0 comments | Continued

The Preamble They Should’ve Written

If the Founding Fathers had wanted to block the drift toward big government, they should have written a preamble to the Constitution that extolled the virtue of the private sector.

27Apr2011 | | 60 comments | Continued

A Simple Solution

By overriding market money prices we deny ourselves important data about the country’s fiscal health.

11Apr2011 | | 3 comments | Continued

The Militarization of Compassion

We must not ignore the decentralized coordinating processes behind rescue efforts and humanitarian assistance.

21Mar2011 | | 8 comments | Continued

Why Is the “Invisible Hand” in the Middle of Smith’s Works?

To think that Adam Smith, the renowned absent-minded professor, hid a little “invisible” secret in his tomes is indeed the ultimate irony.

9Mar2011 | | 31 comments | Continued
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