Individualism is the Enemy of All Forms of Collectivism
Free, competitive markets have been the engine for both freedom and prosperity. In addition, free market capitalism is morally based on the principle of individual rights to life, liberty and honestly acquired property, in which all social relationships require the...
The Global Economy Needs Freedom for Peace and Prosperity
How many bureaucrats are there in the world? The global population currently numbers more than 7.5 billion people. Out of that number it is estimated that the global labor force equals almost 3.5 billion, or a half a billion less than half of all the people on the...
Books: The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism
In his 1910 textbook, Elementary Principles of Economics, world-renowned Yale Professor Irving Fisher devoted part of a chapter to “Population in Relation to Wealth.” Fisher warned of the problem of “race suicide” caused by the fact that the most industrious and...
Karl Marx: The Man Behind the Communist Revolution
When Karl Marx died in March 1883, only about a dozen people attended his funeral at a cemetery in London, England, including family members. Yet, for more than a century after his death – and even until today – there have been few thinkers whose ideas have been as...
Keynesian Aggregate Demand and Supply Derangement Syndrome
The fundamental flaw in Professor Bradford DeLong’s view, as in John Maynard Keynes’ 1936 book is the idea that there exists a macro-economy the two sides of which are composed of aggregate demand and aggregate supply. It has been more than 80 years since the...
The Nightmare Fairyland of the Green New Deal
When a small child runs around waving their arms saying, “I’m a bird, I’m a bird,” we often will say what a creative imagination they have. If an adult runs around doing the same, we usually say that that person needs help because they are clearly out of touch with...
The Secret History of Modern Liberalism: How Socialists Hijacked The Word “Liberal”
“It has been the abandonment over the last hundred years of that freer-market liberalism that has returned government policy to a system of privilege and plunder benefiting special interest groups at the expense of market rivals and consumer.” Over time,...
The Brexit Dilemma: Laissez-Faire Capitalism or Regulatory Statism?
For more than two years now, the United Kingdom and the European Union have been in a crisis mode over how and under what terms the U.K. will leave the EU, following the June 2016 referendum on Britain’s formal departure from the Europe-wide organization. The end of...
Jean-Baptiste Say and the “Law of Markets”
Whatever economic freedom we enjoy in the world today is due, to a great extent, to the ideas and efforts of the classical liberals and economists of the first half of the nineteenth century. Inspired by the eighteenth-century writings of the French Physiocrats and...
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