All Posts Tagged With: "free market"
Capitalism, Corporatism, and the Freed Market
The system that most immediately threatens individual liberty is corporatism.
3Feb2012 | Sheldon Richman | 21 comments | ContinuedMarkets Are Messy, Part 2: The Errors of the Economists
The perfect-competition model assumes away the key function of actual competition, which is to discover the very things the model takes as given.
17Nov2011 | Steven Horwitz | 6 comments | ContinuedLudwig von Mises: Economist, Philosopher, Prophet
Editor’s Note: September 29 is the 130th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig von Mises, the great Austrian economist, defender of classical liberalism, and adviser to FEE. Below is a selection of Mises’s writings published in The Freeman over the years. The Market It is customary to speak metaphorically of the automatic and anonymous forces [...]
24Aug2011 | Ludwig von Mises | 0 comments | ContinuedSocial Cooperation
We should realize that the terms “individualism,” “self-reliance,” and “independence” can lend themselves to undesirable caricatures.
12Aug2011 | Sheldon Richman | 38 comments | ContinuedA Battle that Everyone Wins
Google’s ability to create a meaningful competitor is what will force Facebook to innovate, even if Google+ fails in the long run.
14Jul2011 | Steven Horwitz | 24 comments | ContinuedFree Markets Are Regulated
The question is not to regulate or not to regulate, but which type of regulation – market rules or State discretion – works better.
26May2011 | Steven Horwitz | 15 comments | ContinuedEnd the IMF
The IMF has fostered long-term dependency, perpetual indebtedness, moral hazard, and politicization, while discrediting market reform and forestalling revolutionary liberal change.
20May2011 | Sheldon Richman | 13 comments | ContinuedFree Markets Have Room for Everyone
If you can create pretty much any amount of value, there’s a wage at which you can be hired and a job for you to do.
28Apr2011 | Steven Horwitz | 15 comments | ContinuedOil Price Still Rising
“Stocks fell for a second straight day Wednesday after clashes in Libya sent oil prices to two-year highs….” (Washington Post) Freeing the market is the best way to create security. FEE Timely Classic “A Free-Market Energy Vision” by Robert L. Bradley Jr.
24Feb2011 | Foundation for Economic Education | 0 comments | ContinuedA Free Market in Banking? Not Even Close
Between the state and national governments, there has always been substantial regulation of money and banking in the United States.
3Dec2010 | Sheldon Richman | 13 comments | ContinuedGordon Gekko on Greed
When profits and losses redound to those responsible for making the decisions that produce them, market participants tend to grow more responsible and make better decisions.
28Sep2010 | Sandy Ikeda | 12 comments | ContinuedSustainability: Not Just for Environmentalists
Busybodies, both left and right, seem to be extraordinarily talented at coming up with buzzwords to justify imposing their visions of a better world at the cost of our freedom.
29Jul2010 | Steven Horwitz | 10 comments | ContinuedFree Markets Blossom in Vietnam
Americans think of the Vietnam War as the first armed conflict in our history that we lost. Tanks and troops from the communist North captured the South’s capital of Saigon on April 30, 1975, renamed it Ho Chi Minh City, and ended decades of war. Who can forget the scenes of the last frenzied evacuation [...]
7Jul2010 | Lawrence W. Reed | 0 comments | ContinuedBowling Alone
Many afternoons my junior high school friends and I assembled at the Bloomfield (Connecticut) Bowling Alley to plunk down our quarters for shoe rental and then to bowl a few strings. So as not to make that four-mile bike ride in vain, we scheduled our outings to avoid conflict with the various leagues that had [...]
30Jun2010 | Loren Lomasky | 0 comments | ContinuedIs Monopoly Good or Bad?
Monopoly is nearly always seen as something undesirable. Courts have wrestled with monopoly for ages, sometimes defining it as “the power to control prices and exclude competition,” “restraining trade,” or “unfair and anticompetitive behavior.” Should monopolistic practices be condemned and outlawed? Let’s look at anticompetitive behavior and practices, but let’s not confine ourselves to what’s [...]
30Jun2010 | Walter E. Williams | 2 comments | ContinuedPhony Food Crisis
Green icon Paul Ehrlich is widely known for his absurdly inaccurate projections regarding population and food. Rarely does a doomsday projection pass by without his embracing it. But most of his previous false claims are forgotten, or ignored, by the anti-capitalist coalition of today. After all, Ehrlich made those claims in 1968, and that was [...]
27Jun2010 | James Peron | 1 comment | ContinuedWhat a World We Live In
In the long run private property, markets, sound money, and the rule of law make all of us fabulously richer.
24Jun2010 | Steven Horwitz | 5 comments | Continued-
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