Introductory

Liberty Defined

Tags: Introductory, Media and Culture

01/11/2016 • Ron Paul

Dr. Paul writes that to believe in liberty is not to believe in any particular social and economic outcome. It is to trust in the spontaneous order that emerges when the state does not intervene in human volition and human cooperation. It...

Is the Auto Loan Bubble Ready to Pop?

Tags: Money and Banking, Booms and Busts, Media and Culture

01/11/2016 • Tommy Behnke

The housing bubble has been replaced by a number of new bubbles. Among them is the auto loan bubble. Car loans now last longer than ever and are going to more people with bad credit. This might not end well.

Resurgence of the Warfare State: The Crisis Since 9/11

Tags: Introductory, Big Government, Media and Culture, U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy

01/11/2016 • Robert Higgs

At least since World War I, Austrians have pointed to the relationship between warmongering and the decline of economic liberty. In our times, Robert Higgs is the most articulate and learned upholder of the position that free markets require...

Liberty, State, and Union

Tags: Introductory, Biographies, U.S. History

01/11/2016 • Luigi Marco Bassani

Bassani shows that Jefferson was a special kind of libertarian. He did not believe in government, but for one or two areas. Nor did he believe in the “union” much less the nation state. He was a radical individualist who had no use for the...

Against Leviathan

Tags: Introductory, Big Government, Media and Culture

01/11/2016 • Robert Higgs

What is fundamentally wrong with government today? In Against Leviathan, economist and historian, Robert Higgs, offers an unflinching critical analysis of government power in all its aspects: welfare, warfare, regulation, spying, and its...

Crisis and Leviathan

Tags: Introductory, Big Government, World History

01/11/2016 • Robert Higgs

This seminal treatise in the history of ideas demonstrates what has come to be known as the Higgs thesis: that government grows in periods of crisis, for example, war and depression. He demonstrates this with a detailed look at twentieth century...

The Politics of Unemployment

Tags: Introductory

01/11/2016 • Hans F. Sennholz

The modern age of economic intervention began under the pretense of helping workers. Professor Sennholz demolishes the entire edifice that gave rise to this movement. We were told that workers must be organized into unions. They must have job...

Defending the Undefendable 2

Tags: Introductory

01/11/2016 • Walter Block

Walter Block has assembled thirty chapters defending behavior that is probably offensive to most Americans, such as dwarf tossing and stereotyping, and many that are downright illegal, such as dueling and smuggling. Plus, he’s provided us with...

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The School Revolution: A New Answer for Our Broken Education System

Tags: Introductory, Big Government, Education, Media and Culture, U.S. Economy

01/11/2016 • Ron Paul

Twelve-term Texas Congressman, Presidential candidate, and #1 New York Times bestselling author Ron Paul returns with a highly provocative treatise about how we need to fundamentally change the way we think about America’s broken education...

War, Christianity, and the State

Tags: Introductory, Big Government, Media and Culture, War and Foreign Policy

01/11/2016 • Laurence M. Vance

These seventy-six essays, organized under the headings of Christianity and War, Christianity and the Military, Christianity and the Warfare State, and Christianity and Torture, have one underlying theme: the relation of Christianity to war, the...