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The Free-Market and Antigovernment Roots of the American Revolution | Murray Rothbard

Historians have long debated the precise causes of the American Revolution: Were they constitutional, economic, political, or ideological? We now realize that, being libertarians, the revolutionaries …

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Was the American Revolution Radical? | Murray Rothbard

Especially since the early 1950s, America has been concerned with opposing revolutions throughout the world; in the process, it has generated a historiography that denies its own revolutionary past. T…

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Socialism: The Calculation Problem Is Not the Knowledge Problem | Robert P. Murphy

Originally published 3/16/2018

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Only Power Can Check Power: Why We Need Decentralization | Ryan McMaken

A central problem of political theory has long been the question of “who watches the watchers?” This stems from the fact that it is generally assumed that it is necessary to grant the civil govern…

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Keynes Called Himself a Socialist. He Was Right. | Edward Fuller

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Financialization: Why the Financial Sector Now Rules the Global Economy | Ryan McMaken

To read or watch the news in today’s world is to be confronted with a wide array of stories about financial organization and financial institutions. News about central banks, interest rates, and deb…

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The MBS Slope n’ Swap | Robert Aro

Remember Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS)? Since the Financial Crisis of 2008, they became a multi-trillion-dollar tool for the Federal Reserve to artificially prop up the housing market through its m…

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Mises Contra Marx | David Gordon

​If asked to name the foremost critic of Marxism, most economists sympathetic to the free market would name Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, who in his treatise Capital and Interest and his separate brochure…

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