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Globalization, Not Globalism: Free Trade versus Destructive Statist Ideology

January 12, 2023 – Connor O’Keeffe …… Relatively free trade and capital mobilization have greatly raised living standards in recent years. Yet those that call themselves globalists are less interested in trade than in unipolar political power, pushing violent, disastrous schemes. Continue reading →

Leonard Read Really Did Know Beans about Labor

September 22, 2022 – Gary Galles …… Despite the decree from the federal government that labor is not a “commodity” or an “article of commerce,” Leonard Read knew better. Continue reading →

Baby Formula: Thank Protectionists and the FDA for the Shortage

May 16, 2022 – Ryan McMaken …… With the shortage have come the usual half-baked bromides about “evil corporations” and how they aren’t regulated enough. The real fault lies with welfare statists, Trump-style protectionists, and the FDA. Continue reading →

Biden’s ‘Buy American’ Order on Steel Is Right Out of ‘Atlas Shrugged’

April 25, 2022 – Jon Miltimore …… Forcing companies to purchase goods at higher prices isn’t a path to economic prosperity. Continue reading →

The Tragedy of the Government’s Ban on Human Organ Sales

November 4, 2021 – Mark Thornton …… New tech shows some light at the end of the tunnel. But for decades, government bans on a market for human organs has condemned millions of people to early deaths and immense pain. Continue reading →

I Was a Smuggler—and Make No Apologies For It

July 4, 2021 – Lawrence W. Reed …… Banning the transport of stuff that people desire is much easier said than done and may well produce more victims than the stuff itself. Continue reading →

Why It’s Up to Parents and Grandparents to Remind Young People of the Promise of Capitalism

October 16, 2020 – Kerry McDonald …… Free-market capitalism is the greatest generator of personal and economic freedom, prosperity, and progress the world has ever known. Continue reading →

How Spontaneous Order Saved North Koreans from Starvation

February 25, 2020 – Rob York …… When the state could no longer feed them, freedom of exchange helped them feed themselves. Continue reading →

Brexit: Predictions of Economic Doom Show Why People Ignore “Experts”

February 10, 2020 – Ryan McMaken …… Experts who predicted economic doom as Brexit approached obsessed over the problem of “transaction costs” in trade. But the EU was imposing countless new transaction costs of its own. Continue reading →

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