capitalism
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EconomicsFeatured
The Centenary of Ludwig von Mises’s Critique of Socialism
by Richard Ebeling June 9, 2022The free market harmonizes the peaceful pursuits of each individual with the purposes and activities of all others.
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The laissez-faire variation on the liberal theme never really had a chance, because except for a small handful like Ludwig von Mises, it had few champions, even in the market-oriented liberal camp.
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EconomicsFeatured
Remembering the Soviet Nightmare that Ended Thirty Years Ago
by Richard Ebeling January 4, 2022Socialism always fails – as the complete collapse of the Soviet Union 30 years ago perfectly illustrates.
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EconomicsFeatured
Resisting the Market Process Undermines Freedom and Prosperity
by Richard Ebeling December 22, 2021Returning to a real, competitive free market system will require radical reforms from both government and society.
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GovernmentLibertyPolitics
Stakeholder Fascism Means More Loss of Liberty
by Richard Ebeling September 28, 2020A strong wave of anti-free market thinking and policy proposals are currently dominating the debates over the role of government in society
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ConstitutionFeaturedGovernmentLibertyPolitics
The War against ‘Unbridled Capitalism’
by Jane Shaw September 18, 2020One strand of the Progressive Movement was the social justice movement, which supported legislation against child labor, a minimum wage for women as well as a limit on women’s hours, and workers’ compensation for industrial accidents
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Health care is a component of modern prosperity, which must be continually created.
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EconomicsGovernmentInternet/Telecom
“Surveillance Capitalism”: A Summary of Critics
by Darren Brady Nelson January 27, 2020Companies that allegedly practice “surveillance capitalism” have become seemingly inescapable in our modern economy, leading a host of critics to explain the many ways those like Facebook and Google threaten our lives and freedoms.
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It’s time to tell climate nannies to relax, share the love, and have a cup of good cheer — and most importantly, if they can’t be happy, to leave the rest of us alone.
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GovernmentLibertyPolitics
Free-Market Liberalism vs. Corrupted “Capitalism” and La-La Land Socialism
by Richard Ebeling November 4, 2019One of the issues that confronts the friends of freedom is how best to make the case for liberty as a political idea and ideal and as a policy proposal.
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Here’s the word of the day: viscoelastic. It is a substance that seems solid but slowly drips into a puddle over time. The same substance if pulled quickly snaps and breaks.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedLiberty
Free Market Think Tank Crackdown Is A Setback For Freedom
by Art Carden August 30, 2019Chinese economic liberalization has been responsible for the biggest mass movement out of extreme poverty in human history.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedLiberty
An Answer to the Pope, a Leader of Libertarianism’s Critics
by Jeffrey Tucker August 19, 2019Earlier this year, Pope Francis again blasted capitalism as “a fallacious economic model that has been followed for too long.”