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Real Lovers Love Econ

Economics

This guest post is by Sarah Estelle of econisforlovers.com, where this article originally appeared. When I found my name was already taken for a web domain, Sara Aldworth, director of ...

Christians Should Care About Wealth Inequality – When It’s Caused By The Government

Economics

Some say we are living in a new Gilded Age. The first Gilded Age, you may recall from your old history textbook, reached its peak in the first quarter of ...

The March of History – Mises vs. Marx

Economics

AIER just released an incredible video about the ongoing war of ideas of socialism versus capitalism, exemplified in the persons of Karl Marx and Ludwig von Mises. You definitely do ...

The Libertarian Difference

Economics

How different are libertarians from liberals and conservatives? Quite different.

Democratic Socialism: A Sit Down with the Nanny-State

Economics

Part I: Socialisms on a Spectrum “Democratic socialism is a democracy in which the people control the economy and government, no group dominates any other, and every citizen is free, ...

Don’t Let the Left (and the Right) Steal “Social Justice”

Culture

“There is no sport for the ignoramus like killing a useful word.” –Owen Barfield, World’s Apart, 1963 The meaning of words can be killed in countless ways – overuse, abuse, misuse, to ...

LCI Hot Takes: THE WALL

Economics

Let’s talk about walls, immigration, prohibition, etc. Notes: I mentioned this article in Chemical and Engineering News. The articles on Reason.org don’t typically go up online for a few weeks. Sorry! ...

Does Commerce Make us Lose our Soul?

Culture

Is there something inherent in the free exchange of goods and services that make it uniquely vulnerable to degradation of our souls? Apparently this is a common outlook on commerce. ...

The Way the Market Ought to Work

Culture

While in downtown Denver recently, I needed to take a cab from the convention center to Union Station in order to catch the train to the airport. I could have ...

Even Good Theologians Do Bad Economics

Christian Worldview

CJay Engel at The Reformed Libertarian has begun a series of articles that address the rising concern that libertarian Christians often have regarding the social/political shift to the left of pastors, ...

Who Cares About Greed?

Economics

One of the benefits of living in the 21st century developed world is that we can look back at why freed markets have succeeded. That is, we can see the ...

Trade Myths Die Hard

Economics

I received several comments and questions regarding trade after the publication of my recent article, “Stupid Countries Restrict Trade.” Here is a summary of some questions that a few people ...

The World is Getting Better, and Quickly

Economics

If you spend any time paying attention to the news, you’d be under the impression that the sky is falling because so many bad things are happening, both in the ...

Gary North’s Christian Economics: The Ethics of Destruction

Christian Worldview

In my last article, I introduced Gary North and his book, Christian Economics in One Lesson. This book is a spin-off of Henry Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson. North is ...

Practitioners are the Real Innovators

Culture

Credentialed Experts are not at the forefront of innovation and discovery, driving truth forward.  Their job is to tell a story about the past that doesn’t threaten the present and ...

Is there a Christian view of economics?

Book Reviews

I had the pleasure of attending for the first time FEEcon this month. I met several interesting people, from fellow attendees to some of the speakers, including the president, Lawrence ...

Going Back Toward a Durable Society

Economics

This guest post was written by Paul LaScola.  If complete slavery is defined as full forceful control over one’s actions by another person or persons, then taxation is a lesser ...

Creating Jobs

Economics

Today’s guest post is by Paul LaScola. People or companies that require production assistance and are able to pay for it, create jobs. What is a job anyway? A job ...

Why Do We Hate Taxes?

Economics

Tax returns are due soon, and what better way to get into the involuntary spirit than to commiserate together as libertarians and read Dr. Norman Horn’s popular series, “10 Things ...

Economics, Hierarchy, and the Question of the State’s Inevitability

Economics

Among Christian libertarians, as with other libertarians, there are differing views concerning the legitimacy, necessity, and inevitability of the state. For some, this is the worn-out debate between a view supporting ...

Free Trade or Protectionism?

Economics

Little did I know as I was planning, designing, and typesetting my new little book Free Trade or Protectionism? that the official release date I selected would coincide with the ...

Forget the Data, College is a Religion

Economics

Imagine a town.  Maybe an early New England village. There is a dominant belief in this town that one must attend church every Sunday if they want to live a ...

Jesus, Natural Law, and Economics

Economics

Today’s guest post is by writer/commentator Paul LaScola.   The sense of God and commerce have both been with mankind throughout history. These two characteristics of man — one spiritual, ...

The Free Market at Work

Economics

In 2013, in response to the increasing “open carry” debate, Howard Schultz, the chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Starbucks posted an open letter on the company’s website requesting ...

David Gornoski Interviews Robert Murphy

Economics

How do we win liberty for the future? Where does the liberty movement go in these rapidly changing times? A Neighbor’s Choice founder and syndicated writer David Gornoski speaks with ...

The GOP Tax Reform Plan: A Libertarian Analysis

Economics

Last month I did a preliminary libertarian analysis of the Republicans’ newest tax-reform plan. I concluded that their “Unified Framework For Fixing Our Broken Tax Code” left us with too ...

Wealth, Welfare and Charity

Economics

There are many divergent views about specific topics within libertarian Christian thought, just as there are within strictly libertarian or strictly Christian thinking. But the overarching theme that unites the ...

Wind Energy: Destroying the Midwest One “Farm” at a Time

Economics

My father and I recently finished publishing a book entitled Paradise Destroyed: The Destruction of Rural Living by the Wind Energy Scam. The book reached #1 on Amazon for “New ...

Curiosity is Better Than Knowledge

Economics

If I could choose to be the most knowledgeable person in the world or the most curious, I’d choose the latter without hesitation. Every interesting thing I’ve done has been ...

Americans Are Quadruple Taxed

Economics

It has often been pointed out that corporate profits are double taxed when a corporation pays income tax on its profit and then shareholders pay income tax on that same ...

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