Education

In Germany, 3 families face fines, frozen accounts for homeschooling their children

The anti-capitalists are still with us, and how. Robert Murphy has decided to give them an in-your-face economics education that they won’t forget — ever. His approach comes from years of teaching undergraduates and dealing with the most common...

Life without international trade: using local labor and materials only, a suit takes 500 man-hours to produce.

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Living near the home of a major state university, national collegiate rankings are a real source of pride.

Delivered to the Forestry Leadership Program at Auburn University; Auburn, Alabama, on 17 January 2007.

Since economics and college athletics go together these days like post-dated stock options and 3-6 months in a minimum security prison, you ought t

Hayek argues that exceptionally intelligent people who favor the market tend to find opportunities for professional and financial success outside the Academy (i.e., in the business or professional world). Those who are highly intelligent but ill-disposed toward the market are more likely to choose an academic career. For this reason, the universities come to be filled with those intellectuals who were favorably disposed toward socialism from the beginning.

Ask yourself if the following paragraph would seem believable to you if you were to read it a in a newspaper:

I wondered what was up when the neighbor kids came by doing a government school fund raiser but couldn’t explain what the money was for.