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Growth rates in formerly centrally planned nations have been faster than growth rates in rich countries.

Principles do not suggest specific actions, but they do suggest specific kinds of actions.

Countries that engage in free trade reforms see considerable accelerations in economic development.

So maybe they should stop forcing the rest of us to pay more taxes.

Declaring certain properties "historic" meddles in the market and leads to unintended consequences.

Japan has seriously raised its taxes in recent years, and it's causing problems.

Hayek’s whole purpose in writing this chapter, “The Totalitarians in Our Midst,” serves as a warning to his readers.

We cannot talk about rape without talking about power.

One need only to look at the Corn Laws to see how tariffs hurt everyone.

Since there’s a big debate about whether there should be tax cuts and tax reform in the United States, let’s see what we can learn from abroad.

Yes, diversity does have an effect on trust, but it's incredibly negligible.

In recent years, the government has become increasingly adamant about eliminating this market institution.

Profits and social change are not mutually exclusive.

For Beethoven, the symphony becomes a microcosmic social order in all its diversity, layers of activity, and surprises.

Understanding the opiate crisis is ECON 101.

They are relatively free of federal regulation, and that's what makes them great.

Many people have strong opinions on corporations one way or another. This book from 1979 breaks down the criticisms.

The misnamed Electronic Privacy Communications Act was enacted four years before the advent of the World Wide Web.

Inequality in education is a serious problem, and government has only made it worse.

Philanthropy is about more than just giving away money. It's also about not getting in the way.

The likelihood of your electronics and data being searched at the border is increasing all the time for no other reason than, "Because we can."

While the solutions outlined in the article are laughably bad, they do offer some interesting insights into progressive thinking.

Forgive the term but capitalism is working, despite its poor reputation.

Everyone wants their preferred team to win, and that's just as true of politics as it is of sports.

It's easy to say that Americans as a whole would be richer if Americans owned businesses that are currently foreign-owned, but that's based on faulty reasoning.

If you sell textbooks on Amazon or play gigs on Friday nights without reporting it on your taxes, you might be committing tax evasion.

The super-rich don't sit on piles of cash like a dragon hording gold. They spend and invest it.

Right-wingers tend to think of addiction as a moral failing, and leftists tend to think of it as a disease. It looks like both positions might be wrong.

Things in the beleaguered African country might yet get worse before they get better.

Examples of spontaneous order can be found all around us, both in human society and in nature.

Drawing inspiration from the Lyceum school founded by Aristotle, the Lyceum Scholars Program takes a Great Books approach to studying liberty, the American Founding, capitalism, and moral character.

People were stunned when the Trump administration unilaterally bailed on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade treaty in January 2017.

Even otherwise good people fall prey to the allure of the easy "fix" of state coercion.

Rewarding those who don’t take smoking breaks is much more effective than punishing those who do.

The words we use to describe terrible things are important.

It took a self-inflicted injury to teach me about being present.

There's no getting around the economic law of opportunity costs. And, with government, those costs are lives.

Most states estimate that only 10–35% of companies follow unclaimed property laws completely.

The sanctimonious Republican arguments for raising taxes on some people ring hollow.

We are one another’s equals. There should be no confusion on this point.

Liberty-lovers are all too happy to apply Bastiat's concept of the seen and the unseen to economic policy, but it's important to apply it to all aspects of life and policy, including criminal justice.

High marginal tax rates in the 1950s failed to generate revenue and stunted economic performance.

For the majority of history, the idea of sustained taxation in peacetime was anathema. So what happened?

We see the "Fair Trade" label on our coffee all the time, but what does it even mean?

A fifth of the population is “directly or indirectly dependent on the markets”.

From Chinese god-emperors to bags of Lipton: the story of tea is the story of trade.

Cryptocurrency opened up the floodgates of monetary innovation a century after the enterprise had been shut down.

Increasing home prices is just one of many unsavory impacts of restrictive regulation.

The Red Cross is floundering, which isn't surprising if you understand how markets work.