Free Markets

Several years ago, in an episode of “All in the Family ,” Archie Bunker proposed a possible solution to the airline highjacking problem

Immigration. The very use of the word is telling: since every immigrant is also an emigrant, why is the first term more frequently used?

To state with precision and force the economic and moral imperative of the free market has been of the utmost concern to some of civilization&#8217

The classic definition of the State involves two elements: a coercive monopolization of defense services over a given geographic area, and the impo

Classical liberals and libertarians believe that individuals have rights, even if there is debate about just why we have them or how this can be pr

Libertarian writers including Hoppe, Hummel, and Murphy have attempted to deal with the presence of free riders in theoretical private defense cons

The municipal reform movement of the progressive era succeeded in establishing local government monopoly in the provision of urban services. Competitive markets in such services as fire-fighting, street lighting, refuse removal, transit, and even policing then gave way to municipal bureaus and departments.

This paper seeks to present Mises’s views on cultural questions as well as his belief that certain cultural institutions are buttressed by a

Volume 19, Number 2 (Summer 1999)

The condition of the American medical profession at the close of the Civil War was, in almost every particular, significantly different from that w