Interventionism

Above all else, Earl L. Francis cherished freedom; and to Earl Francis freedom meant working for himself, his own man on his own property.

From a free-market perspective, trade sanctions are always immoral and illegitimate because they restrict trade and free choice among individua

While the state supports of industry may have seemed like gifts at the beginning, the distorted framework of the government-directed economy makes everyone worse off.

The corn, sugar, and ethanol industries in the US are all part of a complex system of government subsidies and other favors, writes Dave Albin.

The poverty rate is not declining, and people continue to buy and sell drugs.

Not content with just the movie industry, the US government has also turned to the video game industry in more recent decades.

Labor unions work to prevent increases in the productivity of workers, which is ultimately the only way to increase real wages, writes George Reism

Following the fall of communism in Eastern Europe in the early 1990s, smaller, independent, ethnically-based political entities emerged.

The American Revolution restored private and local control over goods such as alcohol and tobacco, but since the period of the Early Republic, the prohibitionist agenda has, with few deviations, continued on this trend of increasing central control.

The authors’ proposed solutions are interesting but ultimately disappointing. Laudably, they do call for what they believe to be the privatization of urban transit.