The great sociologist William Graham Sumner explains how the imperialist wars result in the very opposite of their stated intentions.
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Читать дальше...In an unhampered free-market system, the Ricardo effect is benign and progressive. It is just an interesting observation, writes Patrick Barron.
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Читать дальше...Don't leave the job of criminal investigation to the politicized state, writes William L. Anderson.
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Читать дальше...A man would die of hunger who, having decided that money is real wealth, should carry out the idea to the end, writes Frédéric Bastiat (1801–1850).
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Читать дальше...In Austria, hardly any other economist has achieved the same kind of fame as Böhm-Bawerk, write Eugen-Maria Schulak and Herbert Unterköfler.
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Читать дальше...The way to become an expert is as follows: don't challenge the prevailing orthodoxy of the institution; learn the history, underlying principles, and the inner workings of the institution; regurgitate the orthodoxy as you've been taught; celebrate the march of the state, writes Andrew Foy.
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Читать дальше...Advertising must be defended by those who believe in freedom of speech — for that is all advertising is, writes Walter Block.
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Читать дальше...Roosevelt began negotiations to welcome the model killer state of the century into the community of nations, writes Ralph Raico.
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Читать дальше...We should thank our lucky stars for air conditioning — and hope that that government won't destroy it, writes Mark Thornton.
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Читать дальше...Milk in its natural state — raw milk — is consumed by very few Americans, because it is illegal in many states and thoroughly discouraged by federal health organizations, regulators, and the Big Dairy lobby. Its dangers are minimal, and those are due to its prohibition, writes Mark Thornton.
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Читать дальше...The abolitionist would blister his thumb pushing a button that would abolish the state immediately, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995).
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Читать дальше...The Old Right of the postwar period had a rugged and near-libertarian honesty in domestic affairs as well, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995).
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Читать дальше...Every time we object to a thing being done by government, they conclude that we object to its being done at all, writes Frédéric Bastiat (1801–1850).
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Читать дальше...This great company keeps reinventing itself to serve the public: real people, not abstractions, writes Jeffrey A. Tucker.
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Читать дальше...The person of intelligence tends to "see things as they are," never permits his view of them to be directed by convention, by the hope of advantage, or by an irrational and arbitrary authoritarianism. His consciousness is uncontrolled by prejudice, prepossession, or formula, writes Albert Jay Nock (1870–1945).
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Читать дальше...Why the sudden pressure against drug prohibition? It is a burden on taxpayers. It is a burden on government budgets. It is a burden on the criminal-justice system. It is a burden on the healthcare system. The economic crisis has intensified the pain from all these burdens, writes Mark Thornton.
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Читать дальше...Disputants would be far better off if they could choose among competing arbitration agencies and thereby reap the benefits of competition and specialization, writes Morris and Linda Tannehill.
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Читать дальше...Something happened in Buffalo, New York, that contradicts the propaganda of those who support "gun control", writes James Ostrowski.
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Читать дальше...The grave robber joins the bootlegger, the gunrunner, the drug dealer, and the ivory poacher as another phony criminal created by laws that shouldn't exist, writes Adam Young.
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Читать дальше...Bruce Ivins had the skill, the opportunity, and the motives to single-handedly produce the crisis that the state needed, writes Floy Lilley.
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Читать дальше...The ability to find cities to host their events lies largely on the ability to minimize drug-related problems, writes Jonathan M. Finegold Catalan.
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Читать дальше...There is a revolution afoot, one that is happening much more quickly than the Industrial Revolution. We are living in the middle of it, writes Jeffrey A. Tucker.
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Читать дальше...The NYT is angry because the courts did not stick it to another American business, writes William L. Anderson.
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Читать дальше...It is simply impossible for one immersed in the political game to think normally. If we accept as normal the thought processes of those who make a living in the marketplace, then the tergiversations of the political mind must be considered abnormal or "crooked", writes Frank Chodorov (1887–1966).
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