Wikileaks founder Julian Assange influenced by libertarianism
Andy Greenberg has a fascinating interview with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange posted at Forbes.com. Assange states that he has been …
Andy Greenberg has a fascinating interview with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange posted at Forbes.com. Assange states that he has been …
Originally by Edmund Opitz, published in the January 1993 edition of The Freeman. —- Countless generations of men have lived …
A quote from Edmund Opitz. —- “The human spirit seeks full and free expression in every department of life: in …
This article is #15 of a weekly series highlighting the former memes of Bureaucrash, an organization once headed by my …
“Progress” is an abused word these days, especially by bureaucrats and the special interest groups that cater to them. Yet such groups, in the name of progress and social justice, support government intervention through intervention in the market, minimum or living wages, and universal healthcare. We find neither progress nor justice in government actions that advance one group at the expense of another.
When confronted with a problem most people today turn to the government—but in reality, it’s often the government that created the problem and its continued involvement only exacerbates the problem. Politics distorts free market signals, quashes rights, and, quite bluntly, kills individuals.
We hear a lot of Republican and Democrat talking points about healthcare. As Libertarians, it’s important that people understand that …
Yesterday evening, the illustrious U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 4872, the Health Care & Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of …
Freedom subsumes individual liberty and personal responsibility. If individuals are free to act and also held responsible to bear the consequences for their actions, good outcomes will be reinforce correct behavior and bad outcomes will provide a learning experience. When government gets in the way of this feedback loop, it prevents the development of virtue and merely subjects the individual to the will of the State.
Free trade exists when governments do not interfere with commercial transactions between individuals domestically and internationally. Free trade makes America and the world better off.
Government policies cannot mimic the dynamism and spontaneity present in the market, and, in fact, more often than not create perverse and unintended consequences. The solution to environmental concerns is not for more government intervention but for the application of a free market approach, which encapsulates entrepreneurship, property rights, and voluntary transactions.
I’ve been reticent to post a recap of Mises Circle Houston because I didn’t have any photos of the event until yesterday. But now, everything is here and I’m happy to tell you a little about it.
By Edmund Opitz. Adam Smith’s monumental achievement was to enlarge the individual person’s freedom of action in economic affairs, and …
Business and the businessman have had a bad press, almost uniformly. Do you remember the television show whose hero was a businessman? The show that portrayed this businessman as a person of integrity and vision, who labored long hours to produce a product that supplied a genuine need, which he marketed at prices people could afford? Who treated his employees with generosity and consideration, and his customers with unfailing courtesy? Who was a devoted family man, active in civic affairs, and a churchman?
By Edmund Opitz The two major terms in my title are subject to extravagant misunderstanding and occasional abuse. Some of …
By Edmund Opitz If the man from Mars were to ask any one of us to point out the business …
Libertarian Christians could learn something from our Jewish friends if we would pay attention. I had never heard of Rabbi …
LibertarianChristians.com is pleased to welcome Michael Douma as our next guest poster, reviewing “Economics in Christian Perspective: Theory, Policy, and Life Choices” by Victor Claar and Robin Klay.
First off, thanks to everyone who has been following the ASC via my blog and twitter updates. It has been …
The day began with coffee and bagels at the Mises Institute’s courtyard area. I met some nice people and caught …
Greetings, my libertarian Christian friends and others from all over the libertarian blogosphere! Starting Wednesday, I will be live blogging …
Thomas Woods’s newest book Meltdown has officially hit the bookstores today, and I hope you will seriously consider picking up …
In the world of academia, one of the things you regularly try to do is publish your research in peer-reviewed …
Today I would like to invite you to read a bit about intellectual property. Last week, Jeff Tucker of the …
I love economics. I know, it’s a little weird, but it’s the truth. Turns out I will be going to …
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