Professor Georgy Ganev joins Bob to explain that, contrary to the claims of David Graeber and the MMTers, the barter origin of money…
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Created to assure that newly-freed slaves would receive equal legal protection, the Fourteenth Amendment has come to dominate federal jurisprudence. This is not…
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Individual voters have little reason to become informed. Politicians have strong incentives to pander rather than persuade. Partisans are rewarded for tribal loyalty…
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By trying to protect dairy farmers and raise their incomes, the government created a massive cheese surplus, then gave it away, thus harming…
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During the Cold War, pro-assassination forces gained ground, but the illegal killing was hidden because it was inconsistent with the shining-city-on-the-hill propaganda.
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In the West, the “tax states” we now live under are relatively modern institutions, and they developed from earlier non-state civil governments that…
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By trying to protect dairy farmers and raise their incomes, the government created a massive cheese surplus, then gave it away, thus harming…
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One of the objections against anarcho-capitalism is that without government supervision, businesses will form cartels. However, free markets have their own ways of…
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Criticism of causal-scientific social research: Investigations into the foundations of sociology and economics
English translation of Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s Kritik der kausalwissenschaftlichen Sozialforschung (Opladen 1983). Translated by Andreas Tank.
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According to mainstream economists, inflation aids economic growth while deflation impairs growth. Austrian economists, however, point out that in much of US history,…