Category: Economics

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Posts on economics

Economics

The Philosophy of Ludwig von Mises

By Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. This article is ...

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Economics

The Market Economy and Its Life-Support System

By Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. —- The World ...

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Economics

Noah’s Ark and the Sanctity of Private Property

The subject of a proposed religious theme park in Kentucky brings up an issue near and dear to the heart ...

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Economics

The War on Poverty Revisited

By Edmund Opitz, originally published in the February 1986 edition of The Freeman. —- Capitalism, by conquering poverty, creates the ...

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Economics

To Save the World

By Edmund Opitz, originally published in the April 1984 edition of The Freeman. Status quo is a Latin phrase meaning, ...

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Economics

Ed Opitz shows us the Way of Freedom

A quote from Edmund Opitz. —- “The human spirit seeks full and free expression in every department of life: in ...

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Culture

Classic Essay: Against School

By John Taylor Gatto, originally published in Harpers, September 2003. How public education cripples our kids, and why I taught ...

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Economics

Teensploitation

Far from being environments conducive to learning, schools across the world coerce students to conform to the whims of politicians ...

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Economics

Progressives Against Progress

“Progress” is an abused word these days, especially by bureaucrats and the special interest groups that cater to them. Yet ...

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Economics

ImmiGreat

Thanks in large part to misinformation, protectionist legislation passed with the support of Big Labor and other rent-seeking groups, and ...

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Economics

Hands Off My Home

Thanks in large part to the work of the Institute for Justice and the 2005 Supreme Court case Kelo v. ...

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Economics

How Much Bureaucracy Did Congress Just Buy Us?

You have to hand it to the Federal Government, they really know how to take a bad situation and make ...

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Economics

What’s the difference between a gas station and a hospital?

We hear a lot of Republican and Democrat talking points about healthcare.  As Libertarians, it’s important that people understand that ...

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Economics

Austrian Scholars Conference 2010 – Day 3

It has taken me a few days to finish this post. Unfortunately, I spent Sunday driving back home and Monday ...

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Economics

Austrian Scholars Conference 2010 – Day 2

The second day of the Austrian Scholars Conference 2010 was quite exciting. From lunch at the Mellow Mushroom munching on ...

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Economics

Freedom: My Anti-Gov

Freedom subsumes individual liberty and personal responsibility. If individuals are free to act and also held responsible to bear the ...

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Economics

Austrian Scholars Conference 2010 – Day 1

The first day of the Austrian Scholars Conference 2010 was marked by greeting old friends, making new friends, and meeting ...

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Economics

Free Trade Now!

Free trade exists when governments do not interfere with commercial transactions between individuals domestically and internationally. Free trade makes America ...

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Economics

Enjoy Capitalism!

Capitalism is the only moral social system. Only a capitalist system allows you to act in your own interest, to ...

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Economics

Earth Liberation

Government policies cannot mimic the dynamism and spontaneity present in the market, and, in fact, more often than not create ...

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Economics

Why being a candidate can be beneficial for liberty

Though I think it is misguided to believe that electoral politics is the primary means of effecting change for the ...

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Economics

The Dismal Year

One year ago today, Barack Obama stepped into the Oval Office for his first full day as President. So far, ...

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Economics

Top 10 Disasters of the Obama Administration in 2009

Executive Director of the Libertarian Party Wes Benedict put together a retrospective of the executive administration this past year. Any ...

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Economics

Economics Has the Answer: What’s the Question?

By Edmund Opitz. Adam Smith’s monumental achievement was to enlarge the individual person’s freedom of action in economic affairs, and ...

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Economics

Ethics and Business

Business and the businessman have had a bad press, almost uniformly. Do you remember the television show whose hero was ...

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Economics

Freedom and Majority Rule

By Edmund Opitz Lord Northcliffe, the publisher of the London Times, came to this country a few years after World ...

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Economics

Isaiah’s Job

by Albert Jay Nock —- One evening last autumn, I sat long hours with a European acquaintance while he expounded ...

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Economics

Black Magic

By Edmund Opitz Every individual tries to economize his energies by satisfying his needs and desires with a minimum of ...

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Christian Ethics

Perspectives on Religion and Capitalism

By Edmund Opitz The two major terms in my title are subject to extravagant misunderstanding and occasional abuse. Some of ...

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Economics

The Nobility of the Bourgeoisie

By Edmund Opitz If the man from Mars were to ask any one of us to point out the business ...

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