Taxes and Spending

The lack of revolutions, even in highly-taxed societies points to the possibility that many are willing to tolerate rather high taxation rates.

While corporate income taxation is a major issue in the debate over international finance, economic theory has no clear stance on who bears its burden.

David Beito did a great service for the scholarship of liberty and American history with his rediscovery of the Great Depression-era tax resistance

In this article, Laurence M. Vance reviews Clint Bolick’s Voucher Wars: Waging The Legal Battle Over School Choice.

There has been for many years a tension between the anarcho-capitalist or free market anarchist, and the limited government or minarchist wings of

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.

Many economists consider public goods to be a case of market “failure.” They argue that the free market cannot finance the optimal amou

When government monopolization of the roadways is discussed by economists, the “externalities” argument is usually raised.

The recent widely cited National Agricultural Lands Study (NALS) adds to the growing number of individuals and organizations holding the view that

The conventional wisdom proposition suggested by Galbraith that there is endemic instability in a market-based economy that can be remedied only by government policy interventions is inappropriate.