U.S. freezes accounts of world’s leading Bitcoin exchange
Federal officials have seized funds belonging to a website that serves as an exchange for the virtual currency Bitcoin, marking the first..
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Publishing Atrocity: The 1963 Edition of Human Action
This is the fiftieth anniversary of one of the most scurrilous incidents in academic publishing. The victim was Ludwig von Mises. The..
Axiom 2: Promote Human Action and Free-Market Thinking
How To Restore the West: Axiom 2 “Human action is purposeful behavior.” – Ludwig von Mises Contrary to politically correct..
The Goal Is Freedom: Hayek’s Warning
A little over 38 years ago F.A. Hayek, then in Stockholm, Sweden, to accept the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of..
The Goal is Freedom: Right-to-Work Laws and the Modern Classical-Liberal Tradition
It’s not widely known, but an earlier generation of libertarians condemned so-called right-to-work laws as anti-market. For example,..
The Goal is Freedom: In Praise of Profit
In the last two weeks, I presented a defense of key libertarian concepts — the market, private property, and competition — in a way..
The Goal is Freedom: The Virtues of Competition
When I discussed reasons to esteem the free market last week, I conspicuously left out any reference to competition. That might have seemed..
The Goal is Freedom: Love the Market?
Libertarians are sometimes accused of being “market fundamentalists,” and there’s a sense in which I will plead guilty to the charge..
The Utopian Evil of Free Trade
In my previous column on the flaws of free trade theory, I concentrated primarily on the theoretical aspects and the errors in the..
A Forgotten Critic of Corporatism
In 1888, at the height of the Gilded Age, a rather prominent American said some startling things. First he observed, “Our cities are the..
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