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Trade and the Rise of Freedom
Thomas DiLorenzo is professor of economics at Loyola College in Maryland. This is adapted from a paper presented at the Ludwig von Mises Institute’s conference on “’The History of Liberty” at Auburn University, January 29, 2000. It is no exaggeration to say that trade is the keystone of modern civilization. As Murray Rothbard wrote, “The [...]
1Jun2000 | Thomas J. DiLorenzo | 2 comments | ContinuedMay the Force Not Be With You
I’m just back from seeing Star Wars: Episode I, The Phantom Menace with my 11-year-old son, Ben. The space adventure, full of eye-popping special effects, lives up to expectations. But, alas, I must report on an aspect that will be disappointing to readers of The Freeman. The conflict that is the focus of the movie [...]
1Aug1999 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedHow Cities Put the Brakes on Taxicabs
Sam Staley is vice president for research at Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions in Dayton, Ohio, directs the Urban Futures Program for the Los Angeles-based Reason Public Policy Institute, and has more than ten years of experience in local government consulting. The lifeblood of any economy is its people. Human progress ultimately springs from [...]
1Mar1998 | Samuel R. Staley | 0 comments | ContinuedRoads Without the State
Peter Samuel is editor and publisher of Toll Roads, a monthly newletter. Can there be roads if the government doesn’t build them? The first roads were probably not even made by humans but by animals. Herds of buffalo, deer, and other grass foragers pushed aside the shrubs and trampled down the grass to make tracks [...]
1Jan1998 | Peter Samuel | 1 comment | ContinuedEconomics in One Page
Dr. Skousen is an economist at Rollins College, Department of Economics, Winter Park, Florida 32789, and editor of Forecasts & Strategies, one of the largest investment newsletters in the country. The third edition of his book Economics of a Pure Gold Standard has recently been published by FEE. What makes it [economics] most fascinating is [...]
1Jan1997 | Mark Skousen | 5 comments | ContinuedJobs and Trade
Unemployment is the great puzzle of our time. It perplexes politicians, confuses officials, and even entangles economists. It persists and continues to grow despite all the government programs that mean to reduce it and the tax dollars spent to alleviate it. Some writers continue to echo the teaching of Karl Marx. For them, capitalism always [...]
1Jul1996 | Hans F. Sennholz | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Humanity of Trade
Far better that men come together for peaceful trade than meet on a battlefield. Wherever two boys swap tops for marbles, that is the market place. The simple barter is in terms of human happiness no different from a trade transaction involving banking operations, insurance, ships, railroads, wholesale and retail establishments; for in any case [...]
1Jul1956 | Frank Chodorov | 0 comments | ContinuedWheat and World Trade
Mr. Paul de Heresy, economist and former member of the Wheat Advisory Committee, London, is the author of World Wheat Planning. Oxford University Press, 1940. Though agriculture is the very foundation of all human activity, it constitutes only one part of man’s economic life. It should therefore be brought into conformity with the general economic [...]
1Apr1956 | Paul de Heresy | 14 comments | ContinuedThe Cow In The Apartment
Burton Rascoe is a literary critic and free-lance writer in New York City. Helping yourself is one of the best possible ways to help others Haven’t you at one time or another remarked, or heard, without protest, a friend remark: “Radio and TV would be all right if it weren’t for the commercials,” or “He [...]
1Sep1955 | Burton Rascoe | 0 comments | ContinuedPrinciples Are Inflexible
Extracted from Social Statics. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1865. Make a hole through a principle to admit a solitary exception, and, on one pretence or other, exceptions will by and by be thrust through after it, as to render the principle utterly good for nothing. In fact, if its consequences are closely traced, [...]
1Sep1955 | Herbert Spencer | 1 comment | Continued-
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