Big Business and the Market
Over the course of 4 meetings during a 2-week period, we will untangle the knot of big business and big government.
Over the course of 4 meetings during a 2-week period, we will untangle the knot of big business and big government.
Interventionism generates economic nationalism, which in turn generates bellicosity. Only laissez-faire policies are consistent with durable peace.
While we were students of the state education apparatus, how many of us had to write research papers where we were asked to "change the world"?
What if, instead of Marxist or quasi-Marxist paradigms, literary critics adopted the theories of free-market economics?
Education can regulate what intelligence one has, but it cannot give one any more.
We would do well to study the intellectual, political, social, and economic history that made Mises write with such urgency and passion.
Both Mises's and Rothbard's positions have aroused a great deal of discussion. It's time we dig deeper.
Will goods and resources be directed by markets or political officials? That is the great debate.
The economy remains moribund, but not because consumption spending has failed to recover.