Kel Kelly

Articles

Why Kansas’s Tax-Cut “Failure” Is Really a Success

08/03/2017 Mises Wire Kel Kelly

Last month, Kansas ended a five-year long experiment, whereby it lowered state income taxes with the expectation that it would boost economic growth in the state. As is widely acknowledged, Kansas’...

The Cause of the Food Shortage

05/01/2008 Free Market Kel Kelly

The Free Market 26, no. 5 (May 2008) Punditry is seriously exercised about the worldwide shortage of food, which is real enough, but not an act of nature or a result of market failure. Rather, it...

The Case for Legalizing Capitalism

08/01/2010 Free Market Kel Kelly

The Free Market 28, no. 8 (August 2010) It is a common assumption in today’s world that capitalism is, at best, out of control and, at worst, outright evil. Everyone knows that it causes most of our...

Publications

The Case for Legalizing Capitalism

07/14/2010 Kel Kelly

What’s the “American system” of economics? Most people would say it is capitalism, which thereby deserves all fault when anything goes wrong. Well, Kel Kelly responds to this myth in this fast-paced and darn-near comprehensive treatment of the truth

Media

The Case for Legalizing Capitalism

03/10/2011 Kel Kelly

Jeffrey Tucker interviews Kel Kelly, author of ‘The Case for Legalizing Capitalism’. Recorded at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, on November 15th, 2010.

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