Philosophy and Methodology

The recent controversy over Jeff Bezos has spawned an interesting debate among free-market economists on whether blackmail should be legalized.

Oskar Lange was a Marxist economist and intellectual opponent of Mises. Late in his career, he sought to merge praxeology and Marxism. 

All too often, many want governments to do things to others we wouldn't want to have done to us.

There is no justification for any lawful entrepreneur to feel any sense of guilt in appropriating the results of his or her creative activity.

Professor Peter Klein joins The Human Action Podcast to explain how and why.

Bob Murphy and David Gornoski discuss state violence and some healthy alternatives to a violence-based society.

To understand the marketplace, it is not necessary to believe in the existence of a selfish, profit-maximizing human.

A sober look at the assumptions underlying neoclassical analysis reveals that they are either not realistic or not applicable in economic analyses of the real world.

Bob gives the context for his children’s book The Three Lads and the Lizard King, and covers a wide range of related issues.

Many modern scientists simply follow in the footsteps of Jacques Cousteau who once opined that “world population must be stabilized and to do that we must eliminate 350,000 people per day.”