Philosophy and Methodology

Professor Block is interviewed on a special television report on Channel 6, WDSU; New Orleans, Louisiana

This Slate article discusses a new econometric study that apparently shows juvenile crimina

Children of Men director Alfonso Cuaron, writes in the

[cross-posted at Austro-Athenian Empire and

Let’s say that we could generate a graph with happiness in rows and wealth in columns. The curve slops perfectly upward.

Michael Pe

The best solution is also the simplest: get the state out of the way.

Education and social critic Alfie Kohn is an exhaustive researcher and engaging writer.

Friedman maintained that the policies of the Great Depression were a failure because they were not based on his own interventionist proposals: to inflate and undermine property contracts. From this perspective, the state failed not because it didn't "let the market work" but because it didn't let the Chicago bureaucrats work.

The NYTimes has a fascinating article about the obstacles confronting t