Politics Contrived Scarcity and Antitrust Lawsuits—“It’s Not a Bag, It’s a Birkin” by November 8, 2024 November 8, 2024 Birkin bags are pricey and the producer restricts its potential buyers. Unfortunately, disgruntled customers who… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Politics QJAE: Common Fallacies in the 2023 Debt-Ceiling Debates by November 8, 2024 November 8, 2024 This article investigates the veracity of three claims made by current and former government officials… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Politics All States are Empires of Lies by November 8, 2024 November 8, 2024 Most economists are political apologists masquerading as economists. They are Rothbard’s “court historians” with degrees… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Politics Congress Should Fire Jerome Powell by November 8, 2024 November 8, 2024 The Fed wants independence so it can serve the interests of the banker class. There… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Politics Congress Should Fire Jerome Powell by November 8, 2024 November 8, 2024 Congress ought to at least teach Powell, the Fed, and its banker friends a few… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Politics Discrimination and Opportunities for Women by November 8, 2024 November 8, 2024 Wage differences between men and women often are automatically attributed to sex discrimination against women.… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Politics What Is Consent? by November 8, 2024 November 8, 2024 Buchanan and Tullock‘s The Calculus of Consent influentially applies economic ideas to politics, focusing on… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Politics QJAE: The Myth of the Price Premium by November 8, 2024 November 8, 2024 Is the price premium proposed by Irving Fisher an incoherent concept, as Rothbard argued? Hansen… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Politics How Can Mining Asteroids in the Future Make Us Richer Today? by November 8, 2024 November 8, 2024 Bob explains how future inflow of extraterrestrial riches could boost the standard of living on… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Politics JLS: Libertarian Film Critics in the Late Twentieth Century: A Brief Introduction by November 8, 2024 November 8, 2024 Men like Murray Rothbard, John Hospers, and David Brudnoy are just a few of the… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail