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Back to SearchWhy Justice Mattered to Rothbard
Economists like Harold Demsetz and Ronald Coase based their property rights views on utilitarianism. Murray Rothbard based his on justice.
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Raising Interest Rates Does Not Counter Inflation
When inflation surges, the first thing on the government's agenda is for the Federal Reserve to try to force up interest rates. However, as Frank Sho…
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The Fear of the Signal: Why the State Urgently Wants to Bind Prediction Markets
Prediction markets, while obviously imperfect, still work well because people voluntarily put their money where their beliefs are. Naturally, the gov…
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Sound Money, Artificial Intelligence, and the Pope
Unfortunately, the Pope does not understand the role that monetary inflation plays in fueling AI's excesses. If he did, he might lead a necessary ant…
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April Money Supply Growth Hit a 49-Month High. And Prices Soared.
In spite of repeated claims from the Federal Reserve that monetary policy is at least moderately restrictive, there is no sign of any slowing in mone…
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Moloch in the Regulatory State
Regulatory systems are infamous for creating “traps” in seem to be impervious to reform. Regulators seek to “drain the swamp,” but, instead, find the…
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The Abolitionist Movement in the Antebellum South
Before the Nat Turner Rebellion and the rise of militant abolitionism in the North, there were more anti-slavery societies in the South than in the n…
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The Declaration of Independence versus Egalitarianism
Egalitarian interpreters of the Declaration not only empower the centralized state but promote a view of “equality” that shares a common ethical erro…
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AI, Creative Destruction, and the Politicization of Economic Change
Not surprisingly, the present government is rapidly politicizing artificial intelligence. We don’t have to look far for disastrous results.
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Potential Lockdowns, Polarization, And What Should be Done
The covid lockdowns were useless for public health, but they vastly strengthened government’s stranglehold over our lives. We cannot allow this to ha…
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