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Of Common, Public, and Private Property and the Rationale for Total Privatization
I have three goals. First, I want to clarify the nature and function of private property. Second, I want to...
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Revitalizing a Town Takes a Lot More Than Fixing Up a Few Buildings for a TV Show
Some may have heard of Home Town Takeover, but for those who have not, it’s an HGTV show in which...
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Forced Vaccinations in France Bring Both Repression and Protest
Macron says vaccines are not compulsory for the general public for now, but they are essentially required for anyone who...
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Getting to Galt’s Gulch: Everyday Secession
For the libertarian, the way forward is not joining in left-right political boxing matches, but secession. The success of libertarianism...
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Using Goods vs. Exchanging Them: Menger Explains the Difference
Exchange Creates Value Different from Adam Smith who presumed in his Wealth of Nations that the division of labor was...
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Bob Murphy Critiques Curtis Yarvin’s Explanation of Inflation
In a May 2021 essay, Curtis Yarvin (aka Mencius Moldbug) argues that the American economy runs on an inflation machine....
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Canada’s Wait Times for Healthcare Are Huge. Activists Blame Free Markets.
Canada's "private" long-term care homes are anything but private. But the fact a small sliver of the marketplace is allowed...
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Why Are Thieves Stealing So Many Catalytic Converters?
US car owners are being preyed upon by thieves, because South African mine owners are being preyed upon by their...
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Mathematician: Plain English Often Works Better Than Mathematical Notation
Critics of Austrian economics often say that praxeology lacks rigor. Praxeologists rely on imprecise verbal logic that is difficult to...
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Carl Menger Explains Value
The General Concept of Value The value of a good results from the knowledge that each partial attainment of that...
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