The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century
Why did so many people turn their backs on the Western ideal of democratic, limited government and a market economy based on private ownership of the means of production?
The Meaning of the Berlin Wall
On this 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, we should remember all that it represented as a symbol of tyranny under which the individual was marked with the label: property of the state.
Jean-Baptiste Say: An Economist in Troubled Times
To consume, men must first produce.
Max Weber on Politics as a Vocation
Max Weber’s essay on “Politics as a Vocation” reinforces all the reasons why it is important to restrict the powers of government, while enabling those in government to secure each individual’s right to their life, liberty and honestly acquired property.
Book Review: The Invention of the Passport
How and why governments have used the power of issuing official travel documents as a means of restricting the free movement of people during the last 200 years.
Jean-Baptiste Say, Capitalism and Say’s “Law of Markets”
Say’s Law of Markets already included the answers to the questions against free markets with which the Keynesians attempted to challenge the efficacy of capitalism a century later.
NBA Kneeling To China Demonstrates That Freedom of Speech is Imposible Without a Free Market
The difference between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping is that Donald cannot command companies doing business with the NFL to stop doing so until every football player who has kneeled during the national anthem publicly apologize for “offending the American people.” China can.
Interventionism: An Economic Analysis by Ludwig Von Mises
Interventions inevitably generate imbalances in the market that will force the government to either repeal the existing interventions or extend them in the futile attempt to use new interventions to compensate for the distortions its prior interventions have created, until finally the market has been supplanted by the command economy through a process of incremental expansion of the regulations and controls.
Say’s Law and the Keynesian Revolution: How Macroeconomic Theory Lost Its Way by Steven Kates
Steven Kates refutes Keynes’s caricature of the classical economists. Ultimately it is always goods that are traded for goods. Say’s Law, properly understood, explains both what causes unemployment and how to solve it..
My Life as an Austrian Economist and a Classical Liberal
Ayn Rand’s writings brought about an ethical and practical revolution in my thinking
THE CAPITALIST ADVISOR
DOLLARS & CROSSES
- Alex Epstein: Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
- Exposing The Lies and Distortions Behind the NYT’s 1619 Project
- Network communication under censorship — without the Internet
- The Capitalism vs. Socialism Rap Battle: Ludwig Von Mises vs. Karl Marx
- Microsoft Founder Bill Gates Went Into Early Retirement Because of DOJ Antitrust Lawsuit
