Free Markets

States love wars because they enable the state, under the slogans of "defense" and "emergency," to impose a tyranny upon the public that might have been openly resisted in time of peace.

Without government stats, the state would be crippled in justifying its interventionism. If the government received no railroad statistics, for example, how in the world could it even start to regulate railroad rates, finances, and other affairs?

Dr. Shawn Ritenour joins the Human Action Podcast to discuss Mises's monumental work on Socialism. 

The fact that men are born unequal in regard to physical and mental capacities cannot be argued away.

Besides national defense, no government-provided service enjoys as much exemption from scrutiny as the provision and subsidization of primary public education.

Millennials are the focus of everyone’s attention in the housing business.

Bob describes his vision of a Rothbardian society.

Bob and Warren Mosler discuss the assumptions behind Modern Monetary Theory and its implications for economic policy.

Bob interviews Alex Tabarrok, professor of economics at George Mason University and co-author of the popular Marginal Revolution blog.

Even in the heyday of liberalism only a few people had a full grasp of the functioning of the market economy.