from FEE

Unfortunately, a welfare state by any other name is still a welfare state.

If Not Prices, Then What?

Health care was needlessly expensive and inefficient before the ACA

Rome's attempt at nation-building ultimately led to its demise.

Their desire to learn must come first in order for genuine education to occur.

Zoning acts as a barrier to the provision of low-cost housing.

My hanger is cured! I can hang on a little longer, be a little more patient.

Daryl Davis can be a model for how to change people’s minds.

Indeed, economic liberty is the liberty about which most ordinary people care.

It’s a different world from the one I entered when I received my first bitcoin.

"Flood, Repair, Repeat" has to stop.

In the latest poll, an overwhelming 92 percent of Muslims agree with the patriotic statement “I am proud to be an American.”

America's Founding Father knew that forcible education was incompatible with freedom.

eSports burst onto the entertainment scene as a triumph of markets and the exchange of information.

The truth is the reverse. He was so alarmed by segregation, he favored measures to end it.

The arrest of Nurse Alex Wubbels has police conduct in the national spotlight again.

Markets make friends where politics creates enemies.

I was grateful for Walmart because by raising its price for milk it thwarted the greedy customers who, without consideration for others, snatch up two and three gallons.

For those self-identified liberals who may have been seduced by this belief system, by its propaganda, and are fuming at this piece, thank you for reading.

Legislative bans on tobacco aren't making people healthier, they are driving them towards less healthy habits.

European welfare states have lots of problems, but they are paradises compared to antifa-style totalitarian regimes.

Countless people you will never know have a huge impact on your daily life.

Starting a trade war over North Korea is both bad foreign policy and bad economic policy.

How a P2P app bypassed "Big Charity" and paid for the Cajun Navy’s gas during Hurricane Harvey.

Back-to-school is a time fraught with anxiety, depression, and suicidal tendencies.

It's one of the great ironies of intellectual/political history how the left and right blend into a single oppositional force to the free society.

The film reminds viewers that foreign policy actions have unintended consequences.

For all its dreams of abolishing class, communism ended in highly stratified societies.

Unions actually have little to be happy about this Labor Day.

Texas means friendship, a sentiment that has been on full display in the aftermath of Harvey.

The space industry is the future, but that future doesn’t have to come at the expense of free market principles.

It's really just the existing interventionist-welfare state.

We need these people to bring in the scarce resources.

Don't let rules get in your way.

Every sale a company makes is a testament that consumers benefitted from the business’ existence.

Mea culpa means, my fault. What if the fault turns out to be a good thing?

Artificially low prices that result from price gouging laws won’t change the true conditions of scarcity in Texas and Louisiana.

Competition in the taxi industry is making its way through Spain.

Americans are the most generous people on the planet

The entire profession is near-monolithically confused.

How not to teach humane values.

The market will see to Amazon just as Amazon saw to its predecessors.

Professor Boettke’s purpose is to provide a guided tour through the profession as it is now and how he would like to see it changed.

The beauty of Bitcoin and cryptoassets, in general, is that their potential is not limited only to the tech-savvy.

My people are suffering; half of our country is in extreme poverty.

Time and again I’ve spent days on books that force me to wade through dozens of anecdotes and chapters just to get a bit of intellectual meat.

Thanks to John Venn, I now have a part-time job as a Venn diagram graphic artist/specialist.

When the government tries to squash ideas, the results are often destructive of American ideals.

They certainly won't save you any money.

We simply don’t know what knowledge will and won’t be relevant in 12 years.