Peter Van Doren
Western elites repeatedly call for “reparations” payments to former Western colonies ostensibly to lift them from poverty. By turning these countries into large welfare recipients, these elites perpetuate the very poverty they claim to decry.
This week, David Gordon draws insights from The Struggle for Liberty: A Libertarian History of Political Thought—a new Mises book that adapts Raico‘s lecture series into a footnoted, annotated volume.
Gene Healy Man, libertarians are a difficult bunch. Give them a government agency tasked with “delet[ing] entire agencies,” and they’ll start yowling about the agency-deleting agency. The zanier version of John Galt has been set loose on the permanent bureaucracy, invoking Milton Friedman while he throws the
An enduring myth among American historians is that President Hoover's response to the Depression was to let the free market work. This is totally false.
An enduring myth among American historians is that President Hoover failed to respond to the Great Depression because he believed in laissez-faire economics. This historical record shows, however, that Hoover intervened in the economy, thus blocking an economic recovery.