The mere fact that you are living today is proof that capitalism has succeeded, whether or not you consider your own life very valuable.
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Capitalism: Economics, the Division of Labor, and the Survival of Material Civilization
What makes the science of economics necessary and important is the fact that while human life and well-being depend on the production of wealth, and the production of wealth depends on the division of labor, the division of labor does not exist or function automatically.
Twitter Board’s “Poison Pill” Against Elon Musk Shortchanges Twitter Shareholders
Poison pills are more likely a defense of bad management than a defense of stockholders rights. They undermine the market for corporate control and, as a result, the value of stockholders’ investments.
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Elon Musk, Person of the Year, Radicalized by Lockdowns
Elon Musk has turned into a true American, a resistor, a revolutionary. His influence in business and philosophical outlook offers a real path forward. He deserves every congratulations for refusing to go along with ruling-class ideology and instead demand that most essential thing, the freedom to trade, speak, run a business, and innovate without government interference.
The Virtue of Business
Instead of disdain and condemnation, businesses and businesspeople deserve our gratitude.
The Virtuous Circle of Profits and People
It’s mistaken to think that pursuing profits harms people. Profit-seeking by business does not harm but rather benefits people, beyond its owners.
What Economic Advice Would You Give to a Future King?
Carl Menger’s Free Market Advice to an Austrian Crown Prince
Can the Supply Chain Explain the Rise of Inflation?
It is more convenient for the government to argue that inflation is due to supply-chain shocks or scapegoats (such as evil corporations) than admitting it is of their own doing.
What Money Is, and What It Isn’t
A Three-Pronged Blunder, or, what Money is, and what it isn’t.
The Anti-Capitalist Mentality: “Anticommunism” versus Capitalism (Part 5 of 5)
What these self-styled “anticommunist liberals” are fighting against is not communism as such, but a communist system in which they themselves are not at the helm.
The Anti-Capitalist Mentality: The Noneconomic Objections to Capitalism (Part 4 of 5)
Changes in human conditions are brought about by the pioneering of the most clever and most energetic men. They take the lead and the rest of mankind follows them little by little. The innovation is first a luxury of only a few people, until by degrees it comes into the reach of the many.
The Anti-Capitalist Mentality: Literature Under Capitalism (Part 3 of 5)
The tycoon of the book market is the author of fiction for the masses.
The Anti-Capitalist Mentality: The Failure To Comprehend The Nature of Capitalism (Part 2 of 5)
The riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody. The process that makes some people rich is, on the contrary, the corollary of the process that improves many peoples’ want satisfaction.
The Anti-Capitalist Mentality: Why Do People Loathe Capitalism? (Part 1 of 5)
On the the social characteristics of capitalism and the psychological causes of Its vilification.
The Economics of Socialism (Part 5)
He who expects a rational economic system from socialism will be forced to re-examine his views.
The Economics of Socialism (Part 4)
The exclusion of free initiative and individual responsibility, on which the successes of private enterprise depend, constitutes the most serious menace to socialist economic organization.
The Economics of Socialism, Part 3
Is there no way in which some kind of economic calculation might be tied up with a socialist system?
The Economics of Socialism, Part 2
Socialism is the abolition of rational economy. There is only groping in the dark.
The Economics of Socialism, Part 1
In the cloud-cuckoo lands of socialist fancy, roast pigeons will fly into the mouths of the comrades,with no realistic explanation of how this miracle is to take place.
Inflation: Transitory Permanence
In fact, relying on the government to tell us the truth about inflation is a bit like asking high school students to grade their own report cards.
Fair Trade Is Still a Fraud
Government cannot make trade more fair by making it less free.
Biden Administration Embraces Trump’s Mercantalist Economics
The Biden Administration has decided to extend Trump’s mercantilist trade policies. Hostility to free trade Is now officially bipartisan.
In Defense of Bank Deposits: An Open Letter to Professor Omarova
“Although commercial bankers often err in deciding who to lend to, I believe they are far less likely to do so than a body of government-appointed bureaucrats.” – George Selgin
The “Fortune of the Commons”
Why are there still wild blueberries in the fields held in common?