God Protect Us from Metaphors
A fallacy sometimes shrinks and contracts, assumes the guise of a principle, and lurks in a word or a phrase.
A fallacy sometimes shrinks and contracts, assumes the guise of a principle, and lurks in a word or a phrase.
Robert Higgs's concept of <em>regime uncertainty</em> has caught on with businessmen and the press.
What the liberals maintain is that the immense majority prefer a life of health and abundance to misery, starvation, and death.
We are not revolutionaries. We must be patient. But the Internet is on the side of liberty.
We are stuck with another situation in which one form of government intervention creates unintended consequences that require further interventions.
An distinguished Irish philosopher defends forcefully and eloquently Rothbardian anarchism.
There is no fallacy in political economy more widely disseminated than this: import raw materials but protect us from finished goods.
Imagine a world in which the works and ideas of Ludwig von Mises had been neglected and ultimately forgotten.
Germany could prove to the world that a gold-backed money is not only possible but desirable.
We see men who clap their hands when a great invention is introduced, and who nevertheless adhere to protectionism. Such men are grossly inconsistent!