History
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The Central Banker Who Defied Hitler
If we must tolerate government control of currency, we should emulate Hans Luther’s fearless defiance of political pressure.
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America Doesn’t Need a New East India Company
From semiconductors to artificial intelligence, modern proposals for public ownership risk repeating the mistakes Smith identified 250 years ago.
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The Founders’ Reading List: The Curriculum Behind the Constitution
Lawrence Reed’s latest book reframes the American founding not as a burst of political genius, but as the culmination of generations of reading, debate, and intellectual inheritance.
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Sabotaging the Invisible Hand: Adam Smith Predicted Modern Policy Failures
Smith observed that significant economic inequalities arise not from voluntary exchange but from distortions that restrict competition, channel resources toward favored interests, and limit economic mobility.
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The Long Tradition of Wealth-Extracting Socialists
Hasan Piker is the latest in a long line of socialist figures — from Marx and Lenin to Castro and Chávez — who denounce capitalism while prospering from it.
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Did New Deal Spending End the Great Depression?
George Selgin’s ‘False Dawn’ empirically demolishes the claim that Franklin Roosevelt pursued a Keynesian recovery strategy.
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Ancient Clay Tablets Show Markets Worked 4,000 Years Before Economists Explained Them
Clay tablets unearthed in Asia Minor reveal a sophisticated commercial order emerging spontaneously nearly four thousand years before economists explained how markets work.
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The Myth of a Permanently Poor Underclass
The bottom income quintile is not a static social class but a temporary snapshot of lives in motion. Most Americans do not remain poor for life, and removing policy barriers can help more people move up.
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Roddie Edmonds and the Power of Saying No
Liberty depends on individuals saying no to power, especially when authority demands moral compromise, as one American officer proved behind barbed wire in World War II.
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Sorkin’s ‘1929’: Panic, Politics, and the Search for Villains
Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers a tightly written, highly readable account of the 1929 crash, using strong storytelling and vivid detail to trace the panic and its aftermath.
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The Central Banker Who Defied Hitler
If we must tolerate government control of currency, we should emulate Hans Luther’s fearless defiance of political pressure.
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•
America Doesn’t Need a New East India Company
From semiconductors to artificial intelligence, modern proposals for public ownership risk repeating the mistakes Smith identified 250 years ago.
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•
The Founders’ Reading List: The Curriculum Behind the Constitution
Lawrence Reed’s latest book reframes the American founding not as a burst of political genius, but as the culmination of generations of reading, debate, and intellectual inheritance.
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•
Sabotaging the Invisible Hand: Adam Smith Predicted Modern Policy Failures
Smith observed that significant economic inequalities arise not from voluntary exchange but from distortions that restrict competition, channel resources toward favored interests, and limit economic mobility.
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The Long Tradition of Wealth-Extracting Socialists
Hasan Piker is the latest in a long line of socialist figures — from Marx and Lenin to Castro and Chávez — who denounce capitalism while prospering from it.
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•
Did New Deal Spending End the Great Depression?
George Selgin’s ‘False Dawn’ empirically demolishes the claim that Franklin Roosevelt pursued a Keynesian recovery strategy.
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•
Ancient Clay Tablets Show Markets Worked 4,000 Years Before Economists Explained Them
Clay tablets unearthed in Asia Minor reveal a sophisticated commercial order emerging spontaneously nearly four thousand years before economists explained how markets work.
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The Myth of a Permanently Poor Underclass
The bottom income quintile is not a static social class but a temporary snapshot of lives in motion. Most Americans do not remain poor for life, and removing policy barriers can help more people move up.
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•
Roddie Edmonds and the Power of Saying No
Liberty depends on individuals saying no to power, especially when authority demands moral compromise, as one American officer proved behind barbed wire in World War II.
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•
Sorkin’s ‘1929’: Panic, Politics, and the Search for Villains
Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers a tightly written, highly readable account of the 1929 crash, using strong storytelling and vivid detail to trace the panic and its aftermath.