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Review: How Economics Professors Can Stop Failing Us

09/25/2018Quarterly Journal of Austrian EconomicsSamuel Bostaph

Many economists “essentially have no justification, or defensible reason, for what they are doing” and resent being asked to provide one.

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Richard Cantillon: An Introduction

Capital and Interest TheoryOther Schools of ThoughtPhilosophy and Methodology

09/22/2018The Journal of Libertarian StudiesFriedrich A. HayekMichael O' Suilleabhain

Jevons called Cantillon's Essai the "Cradle of Political Economy." It was one of the few books quoted by Adam Smith and it deserves reading by any serious thinker of political economy today.

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Does Justice Qualify as An Economic Good?: A Böhm-Bawerkian Perspective

Legal SystemHistory of the Austrian School of Economics

09/20/2018Quarterly Journal of Austrian EconomicsGael J. Campan

Böhm-Bawerk unerringly centered his analysis on basic problems in the theory of economic goods. It constitutes a dazzling achievement.

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Socialism and 'Social' Justice

Philosophy and MethodologyPolitical Theory

09/19/2018The Journal of Libertarian StudiesAntony G. N. Flew

Hayek was forced to conclude that the term "social justice" was "entirely empty and meaningless” and is generally used to assert a claim without giving a reason for it.

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Bureaucracy and the Civil Service in the United States

Media and CultureCalculation and KnowledgePolitical Theory

09/14/2018The Journal of Libertarian StudiesMurray N. Rothbard

One of the most important sociological laws is the "Iron Law of Oligarchy": every field of human endeavor, every kind of organization, will always be led by a relatively small elite.

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Social Scientists, Schooling, and the Acculturation of Immigrants in 19th Century America

EducationMonopoly and Competition

09/12/2018The Journal of Libertarian StudiesLeonard P. LiggioJoseph R. Peden

Public schools have always been central to government's ability to propagandize in favor of a single, homogenized, national system of government.

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What Causes Moral Hazard?

Big GovernmentInterventionism

09/06/2018The Free MarketJörg Guido Hülsmann

It is not co-ownership per se that causes moral hazards. They are caused by the uninvited and unwanted co-ownership that springs from interventionism.

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The Progressive Era

U.S. History

09/01/2018Quarterly Journal of Austrian EconomicsChris Calton

More than twenty years after his death, Rothbard is proving that he still has much to teach us.

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The Lesson of Soviet Medicine

Big GovernmentHealthInterventionism

08/31/2018The Free MarketYuri N. Maltsev

In 1918, the Soviet Union became the first country to promise universal “cradle-to-grave” healthcare coverage, to be accomplished through the complete socialization of medicine. The disastrous results speak for themselves.

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