A $15 Minimum Wage Would Hurt Those it’s Meant to Help
This article was originally published on CNN Business on February 9, 2021. The full text can be found here. This is the sixth …
Tag: economic intervention
Where did all the Poor People Go?
This is the third of 7 installments in our series, “Compassion, Not Compulsion: Why the Welfare State Fails to Lift …
Wait Till It’s Free
Last Friday evening, the Christians for Liberty Austin Chapter met to watch Wait Till It’s Free, a documentary produced …
The Taste of War
Review of Lizzie Collingham, The Taste of War: World War II and the Battle for Food (The Penguin Press, 2012), …
The War on Poverty: A Critical View
By Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. This essay was …
Moral Busybodies
This is a post originally written for the Prometheus blog, but it no longer appears there so I thought I’d …
The Robber Barons and the Real Gilded Age
By Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. The Civil War …
Stop Statism
Statists are anti-progress. Statists claim their policies are for the common good. For some this claim is just a front to get more power, but for others it is a genuine goal. Nevertheless, even the most well-intentioned statists, who believe that granting government the power to control individual actions will result in a better outcome, violate rights and cause harm.
Stop Rent-seeking
This article is #17 of a weekly series highlighting the former memes of Bureaucrash, an organization once headed by my …
Smoking is Healthier than Fascism
This article is #15 of a weekly series highlighting the former memes of Bureaucrash, an organization once headed by my …
Progressives Against Progress
“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.
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 …
Free Trade Now!
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.
Ethics and Business
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?
Freedom and Majority Rule
By Edmund Opitz Lord Northcliffe, the publisher of the London Times, came to this country a few years after World …
A Quote from Rand to Consider
I ran across this quote in an email on the Christian Libertarian Yahoo Group, and it struck me in a …
Paul Krugman: Stop Talking Please
If you have been following the news lately, you’ve likely heard a resurgence of the claim that Paul Krugman predicted …
“Economics in Christian Perspective” Book Review
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.
ASC Day 3: Method and Politics and More!
First off, thanks to everyone who has been following the ASC via my blog and twitter updates. It has been …
ASC Day 1: Author’s Forum and a Jewish Rabbi
The day began with coffee and bagels at the Mises Institute’s courtyard area. I met some nice people and caught …
“Myths America Lives By” Book Review
A review of Richard Hughes’s book Myths America Lives By. Richard Hughes’s seminal book can be roughly described as exploding …