from FEE

After reaching an economic breaking point in the 1970s, successive governments introduced a mixture of reforms—including reduced benefits, partial privatization of pensions, and lower regulation—that have restored its economic fortunes.

Despite the centrality of rights in American history, it’s readily apparent today that Americans are of widely different views on what a right is, how many we have, where rights come from, or why we have any in the first place.

The Trump EPA is rejecting the flawed reasoning the Obama administration used to broaden its power under the Clean Air Act in favor of the rule of law.

We all should agree that the ideal scenario is for nations to adopt free trade agreements in order to maximize the economic benefits for all consumers and businesses.

Before America’s founding, careful thinkers like Montesquieu knew the blessings of liberty and the benefits of voluntary arrangements.

When we witness someone who is spending money on some luxury we deem unnecessary, whether it be a luxury car, a seemingly pointless toy, or a service that "nobody needs," it's helpful to keep in mind that those who sell and market such goods are usually ordinary people.

While many would like to condemn Paul's decision to go to Canada for medical treatment as hypocrisy, it is actually right on brand for the senator.

Instead of continuing to maintain the production, import, storage, and distribution of gasoline under PEMEX, Andrés Manuel López Obrador should withdraw the state from the gasoline business altogether.

The time you spend in the garden with your children is invaluable.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s economic agenda cannot be justified when looking at economic data, fiscal data, and historical data.

Under C-46, police can stop any driver, anywhere, for any reason and demand their sample. You can even be cited if you haven’t driven in two hours.

Barring injury and death, destruction or theft of property, or the outright prevention of someone living their own life, there ought not to be a law.

Patagonia now has greater freedom to use its profits for causes and purposes it actually believes in—that it can steward more of its output according to its own stated values.

As always, the government is seeking to penalize innovation by taxing it rather than celebrating it.

The forgotten playwright's ideas on limited government and connection to FEE.

A quick history lesson can teach us that targeting the rich can backfire and substantially harm the middle class.

Don't be too hard on money, success, and hard work. These things have contributed to human freedom as much as anything else.

While corruption and poor policymaking are driving the current state of underdevelopment in Africa, these are only proximate factors that are rooted in the irregular legacy institutions that most African countries are still grappling with.

In a decision last week, the European Court of Human Rights has undermined its claim to being the “conscience of Europe” and pitted parents against children.

The numbers of international passengers keep rising.

Last week, the Atlanta City Council approved several new regulatory restrictions for the scooters, including fines and costly operating permits.

Civilian federal workers make 17 percent more than similar workers in the private sector, accordingto a 2017-2018 report by the Congressional Budget Office.

Tropico demonstrates to us that despite our best intentions, it is hubris to believe we can mold our economy to our wishes through central planning.

The Income Share Agreement gives the program an incentive to actually perform.

The federalization of airport security creates a situation in which national politics can easily create a system-wide failure in airport security that would not be possible in a system without the centralization of the TSA.

Whatever any government anywhere’s plans for the future, keeping the price system in place is of paramount importance.

Apple’s visionary motto of “Think Different” challenges the status quo, while Microsoft’s “Empowering Us All” may just capture the next incremental change on a well-trodden path.

Politicians are making things worse rather than better.

The solution to fake news is more practical than you might think.

Free enterprise has contributed to obesity only insofar as it has produced such abundance as to nearly vanquish malnutrition.

Health care is too complex and changes too quickly for anyone to manage from a central list.

Rather than recognizing the common ground this report represents, both sides of the aisle seem hell-bent on making this into yet another divisive political issue.

The story of a man who showed the world how a peaceful, non-governmental system can flourish.

Conferences make exciting chapters in the story that is your life, give them a shot.

Considering the Democrats regained their supermajority in the legislature in the 2018 election, the ever-increasing expansion of the state’s government is almost certain to continue.

Libertarian feminists offer a thoroughly individualist version of feminist thought rather than the common collectivist understanding.

The low taxes upon which Ireland’s economic miracle is based are unlikely survive if the EU succeeds in its push to end unanimity on taxes.

This approach isn’t practical, even from a left-wing perspective.

Last weekend marked the centennial anniversary of the death of Theodore Roosevelt.

Is it true that the AR-15, a popular firearm owned by millions of Americans, is a unique threat to public safety?

It is a clear articulation of rights that are to remain inviolable.

It turns out the consequences of those bad policies don’t just fall on business owners. They fall on workers, too.

President Trump's announcement that he intends to withdraw troops from Syria has incited pro-war outrage, but there are better solutions than military intervention.

The number of generic drugs approved in 2018 surpassed those in the previous year.

Civil asset forfeiture is prevalent across the nation but very rarely talked about.

Trudeau’s tax hike was a big mistake. The only tangible results are that the private sector isnow smallerand the country isless competitive.

It is often said that sunlight is the best disinfectant. The SEC and its cohorts are about to get a healthy dose of each.

"Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it."

Mainstream economists are overlooking a key connection.

Commoditizing education might not be a bad thing, depending on your definition of the word.