Economic Freedom is the First Freedom
Because it deals with the things we require first
Topic
Economics
A collection of 180 issues
There aren't Economic Systems
The Great Reset appears to be an idea among the global elite that COVID gives them an opportunity to “reimagine” economic systems, along the lines that the elite think more appropriate.
The problem is, there is no such thing as an “economic system.”
People naturally pursue happiness. To paraphrase St.
Cryptocurrency Isn't in a Bubble
It might be terribly overvalued, but it's not in a bubble
The Deeply Flawed Campaign for Racial Reparations
By Jeff Jacoby at The Boston Globe
Labor v. Leisure
There's a thing called the "disutility of labor." It's a fancy phrase that basically means people prefer leisure over labor.
We constantly see people make current sacrifices in order to get advantages later, and one of the principle advantages is leisure. Von Mises points
Don't Kill Hudge and Gudge by Thinking Like Hudge and Gudge Writ Small
The struggle to reconcile our use of Amazon with our hatred of big corporations is a constant mental, even emotional, struggle, especially when facts like this are plopped in front of us:
Money is power, and companies like Amazon suck this economic power out of local communities and concentrate it
The Aristocracy Is Eating the Peasants
By John Rubino at Substack
Three Errors Paul Ehrlich Keeps Making
By Vincent Geloso at the American Institute for Economic Research
Capitalism is a Bogeyman
The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.”
Hilaire Belloc, The Servile State
Capitalism is a bogeyman.
There is a type of capitalism rightly condemned by my heroes Chesterton and Belloc, but it was first and foremost a type of capitalism born of privilege
Distributism Needs a New Name
Dale Ahlquist at Plough