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Capitalism and Asymmetric Information

by Richard Ebeling Capitalism is a wondrous human institution for the mutual betterment for all in society. Yet, critics often …

Can you get something for nothing?

by Jaana Woiceshyn I was recently at a small garden center adjacent to a large chain store, getting supplies for …

Ibn Khaldun: An Arab Scholar 21st Century Politicians Could Learn From

Muslim scholar Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) understood economics and human incentives in a way many modern-day politicians do not. by Lawrence …

ESG investing: Good for people and the planet?

by Jaana Woiceshyn Corporations’ ability to raise financing – and to create goods and services and returns on their shareholders’ …

Government Planning Brings neither Freedom, Prosperity, nor Equality

Summary Liberty is, once again, under attack by a new collectivist counter-revolution determined to bring down the remaining ideas and …

Whom should you do business with?

by Jaana Woiceshyn Read original post here… As Russia continues its brutal invasion of Ukraine and its increasing atrocities toward …

The Statist “Solution” Really Is a Non Sequitur

by Joshua Mawhorter Read the original article at The Mises Institute here… A non sequitur is a rudimentary yet common …

The Role of Culture in Innovation

Like a flowering plant, technological progress needs the right environment to thrive. Specifically, it requires a culture that embraces innovation. …

Microchips and Potato Chips

by Donald J. Boudreaux Read original article at AIER here… Would we Americans be economically better off if the government …

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The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government, that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it. He goes on to establish it completely and in all its parts, without any regard either to the great interests, or to the strong prejudices which may oppose it. He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board. He does not consider that the pieces upon the chess-board have no other principle of motion besides that which the hand impresses upon them; but that, in the great chess-board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might chuse to impress upon it. If those two principles coincide and act in the same direction, the game of human society will go on easily and harmoniously, and is very likely to be happy and successful. If they are opposite or different, the game will go on miserably, and the society must be at all times in the highest degree of disorder.