Entrepreneurship

Inclined to Liberty is an important confidence booster for people involved in commerce, providing answers to their colleagues who criticize freedom, and pointing to other resources.

Today government is even more arrogant and absurd, and it actually believes that by passing legislation it can save the US car industry.

The market, to the extent it is able to work freely, would lower healthcare prices while increasing quality; to the extent that government is involved, expect higher-priced and lower-quality services — and more bureaucracy.

There is nothing that the government can do today — apart from repealing laws and regulations — that will make an improvement on the workings of the market.

The idea that expanding and integrating the global marketplace exploits the poor is a myth that causes avoidable misery.

People will be strip-mining old landfills for petroleum products that they can convert into fuel.

Recorded at the Mises Institute Supporters Summit, 31 October 2008; Auburn, Alabama.

Contrary to what Weisberg claims, the philosophy of freedom has, once again, been proven right.

And so it happened that Birmingham became "emphatically the town of 'free trade'," where practically no restrictions, commercial or municipal, were known" (Timmins 1866, p. ??), and where the notion of free trade was even to be extended, however briefly, to the nation's coinage.

"The enemies of capitalism and economic freedom … use the accusation of 'laissez faire' as a kind of ratchet for increasing the government's power."