by Jaana Woiceshyn All taxpayers are suffering under the increasing regulatory and tax burden, as governments in many countries are …
Do Not Trust Governments with the Control of Money
by Richard Ebeling If there one thing that is fairly certain in this life – besides the seeming inescapability of …
Regardless of the lack of logic, price controls will be applied
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 …
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 …