Political Theory

The claims about a "moneyless" utopian village in India turn out to be false. No one with an understanding of economics should be surprised.

Governments hate decentralization, and politicians like Hillary Clinton hate it too.

Rather than focus too much on lamenting politics and the state, we should be heartened by how far we've come — and go forward confidently.

Alarmed by successful entrepreneurship and low prices for consumers, government seeks, yet again, to shut down small businesses.

The national debt and cutting government spending simply are not topics the voters care about anymore.

Democracy virtually assures that only bad and dangerous men will ever rise to the top of government.

This is the main fallacy of term limits: it presumes the problem is the people in government, and not the government itself.

When government creates special demographic categories for groups of people, the effects on public policy can be far reaching.

The federal government is using the threat of foreign hackers as an excuse to further nationalize elections in the United States.

Watch or listen to Edward Stringham's talk at the Mises Circle in Boston.