History
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How a New Definition of Personality Wrecked a Generation (or Two)
“Without entirely knowing what we were doing, that in the course of a few decades, we replaced a view of the human project that was inspired by choice, personal ambition, and individual achievement with a completely different view that insists that aspiration is utterly pointless and probably even dangerous.” ~ Jeffrey Tucker
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A Real Agenda for a Renewal of Free Market Liberalism
If the classical liberals of that earlier time could defeat the prevailing beliefs and vested interests supporting human slavery, after its existence for all of human history, some of us believe the same can be done against the existing system of collectivism, interventionism, and welfare statism in both their authoritarian and democratic forms.
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Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez and the $3,500 Suit
It should come as no surprise that in a political/economic system helmed by an elite that the trappings of a ruling class inevitably follow.
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How E.C. Harwood Stood Firm Against FDR’s Attempts to Censor AIER
The political persecution of Harwood appears to have originated in the highest ranks of the Roosevelt Administration. As Harwood later recounted, an investigator showed him a copy of the Bulletin containing a handwritten directive to “investigate and stop this.” It was signed by Lauchlin Currie, a former Harvard professor who became Roosevelt’s chief adviser on…
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Arthur Pigou Warned of the Failures of Government
“Pigou may have been too optimistic about the prospects for improving state action, but he had no illusions about the problem states faced in acting correctly.” ~ Michael Munger
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What Monks Can Teach Us About Blockchain
“While we sit around wondering why blockchain and other technologies aren’t turning the world upside down before our very eyes, it’s instructive to remember that epoch-defining inventions of the past that we now reduce to a sentence or two actually took ages to unfold.” ~ Max Gulker
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FDR’s Forgotten Tax on the Poor
The real story of New Deal income tax policy is a revenue grab sustained by the expansion of income tax eligibility and enforcement onto the masses.
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Currency Reform in Ancient Rome
The best conclusion that can be drawn from examining these instances is that in response to the familiar rhetorical query – “Are we going the way of the Romans?” – one can reply, truthfully: “No; they occasionally reformed their currency.”
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The Labeling Problem in Economic Thought
There is a core of the economic way of thinking that can be traced from Adam Smith to Vernon Smith and that deals with basic ideas about human rationality, human sociability, and the coordination of activity through time. Incentives, information, and innovation are part of this core as they derive from the even more primordial…
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A Brief on Alt-Right Ideology
Every activist political movement eventually becomes a caricature of itself. This is certainly true of the so-called alt-right that blasted onto the cultural stage with its “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017.
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How a New Definition of Personality Wrecked a Generation (or Two)
“Without entirely knowing what we were doing, that in the course of a few decades, we replaced a view of the human project that was inspired by choice, personal ambition, and individual achievement with a completely different view that insists that aspiration is utterly pointless and probably even dangerous.” ~ Jeffrey Tucker
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A Real Agenda for a Renewal of Free Market Liberalism
If the classical liberals of that earlier time could defeat the prevailing beliefs and vested interests supporting human slavery, after its existence for all of human history, some of us believe the same can be done against the existing system of collectivism, interventionism, and welfare statism in both their authoritarian and democratic forms.
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Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez and the $3,500 Suit
It should come as no surprise that in a political/economic system helmed by an elite that the trappings of a ruling class inevitably follow.
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How E.C. Harwood Stood Firm Against FDR’s Attempts to Censor AIER
The political persecution of Harwood appears to have originated in the highest ranks of the Roosevelt Administration. As Harwood later recounted, an investigator showed him a copy of the Bulletin containing a handwritten directive to “investigate and stop this.” It was signed by Lauchlin Currie, a former Harvard professor who became Roosevelt’s chief adviser on…
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Arthur Pigou Warned of the Failures of Government
“Pigou may have been too optimistic about the prospects for improving state action, but he had no illusions about the problem states faced in acting correctly.” ~ Michael Munger
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What Monks Can Teach Us About Blockchain
“While we sit around wondering why blockchain and other technologies aren’t turning the world upside down before our very eyes, it’s instructive to remember that epoch-defining inventions of the past that we now reduce to a sentence or two actually took ages to unfold.” ~ Max Gulker
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FDR’s Forgotten Tax on the Poor
The real story of New Deal income tax policy is a revenue grab sustained by the expansion of income tax eligibility and enforcement onto the masses.
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Currency Reform in Ancient Rome
The best conclusion that can be drawn from examining these instances is that in response to the familiar rhetorical query – “Are we going the way of the Romans?” – one can reply, truthfully: “No; they occasionally reformed their currency.”
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The Labeling Problem in Economic Thought
There is a core of the economic way of thinking that can be traced from Adam Smith to Vernon Smith and that deals with basic ideas about human rationality, human sociability, and the coordination of activity through time. Incentives, information, and innovation are part of this core as they derive from the even more primordial…
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A Brief on Alt-Right Ideology
Every activist political movement eventually becomes a caricature of itself. This is certainly true of the so-called alt-right that blasted onto the cultural stage with its “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017.