by Rick Lowe As the economy tightens will the spectacle of the Price Control Commission (PCC) visiting and demonising businesses …
Profits and people: What is business for?
by Jaana Woiceshyn During the pandemic, anti-business activists are doubling their efforts to advocate against the alleged evils of capitalism: …
Freedom and Utopias
John Hospers is a professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California, and editor of the philosophical magazine, The …
Lockdowns as a Political Tragedy of the Commons
Summary A number of European governments are reinstituting degrees of new social and economic lockdowns in the name of slowing …
Tigers Are Less Dangerous Than Tax Collectors and Political Paternalists
by Richard Ebeling We are told in The Analects of the famous ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius (551–479 BC), Once Confucius …
The proper role of government: Why the economic lockdowns must end
by Jaana Woiceshyn The economic lockdowns in the United States and Canada to contain the spread of COVID-19, or to …
Tradition and Why the Russians are Who They Are
Summary No matter how reasoning and independent thinking we are and attempt to be, we can never completed escape from …
What drives innovation, the engine of economic growth?
by Jaana Woiceshyn Many economists today are arguing that the unprecedented era of innovation—the last 250 years or so since …
Milton Friedman and the New Attack on Freedom to Choose
Summary A counter-revolution against freedom is busy at work in the United States today, and it is, perhaps, not surprising …