What Makes a Billionaire Bad? Just Add Government.
Cronyism, not the free market, is what makes income inequality harmful.
Free Markets
Wisconsin to Market Chain: Jack Up Those Prices or Else!
Depression-era law used to screw with competitors.
Your Band Sucks: Jon Fine on How the Indie Cultural Revolution Changed America for the Better
"If you're telling me Amazon is bad for culture, like seriously, fuck you," says memoirist of '90s alt-music scene.
Whole Foods' John Mackey: Why Intellectuals Hate Capitalism
They're jealous, he says, they side with rulers, and they don't understand how markets work.
The Economics of Software-Vulnerability Sales: Can the Feds Encourage 'Pro-Social' Hacking?
The question for cybersecurity-minded lawmakers should not be how to control the zero-day market but how to encourage more "white hat" trades and fewer destructive ones.
Economic Freedom Makes People Happy
New study finds that happiness correlates with living in a free society.
Coercion Is Bad Economics
Free markets generate value, deliver diversity, and spur better ways of doing things
A New Life for Old Food
How technology reduces waste by getting excess edibles to those who can still use them.
How Commercial Surrogacy Should Be
Oregon's example shows the benefits of a surrogacy market governed by voluntary contracts rather than strict state regulation.
Geoffrey Zakarian: In Praise of Free Enterprise Food
The celebrity chef talks about America's food revolution, and the overzealous regulators who threaten it
Pope Francis and Naomi Klein Both Hate Free Markets, Technological Progress, and Economic Growth
This coalition of the secular left and the religious left bodes ill for the poor and the climate.
The U.S. Patent System is Broken: Derek Khanna on Trolling and Low-Quality Patents
Our current patent policy hurts our economy and hampers innovation.
Expect Declining Living Standards From Decaying Economic Freedom, Warn Researchers
The poor may be hit hardest, and it doesn't look good for civil liberties either
OpenBazaar, an Online Platform for "Censorship-Resistant Trade," Gets $1 Million In Backing From Venture Capital Heavyweights Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures
Investors give a vote of confidence to a libertarian-themed tech venture.
Carly Fiorina Is Not the Anti-Hillary
Fiorina may thrill fans of "private enterprise," but beware.
Open the Borders—to Trade and to People!
When it come to immigration and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Republicans and Democrats sound more like South Park rednecks than statesmen.
U.S. Capitalism Isn't a 'Free Market'
Centuries of government intervention have distorted society and the economy considerably, and it will take time and patience to fix.
Tapping Water Markets in California
Drought may force the unthinkable: resorting to property rights and markets.
Bitcoin and the Cypherpunks
Will recent breakthroughs in computer science make truly free markets a reality?
Indiana, Religious Freedom, and the Constitution
Indiana is free to look the other way in the face of discrimination based on sexual orientation. But they are not free to encourage it or to make it lawful.
Elton John vs. Dolce & Gabbana: Should You Boycott Anti-Gay-Adoption Businesses?
The famous fashion designers are gay but oustpoken critics of gay parents and IVF children.
Why Not Blame Gun and Drug Laws for Rapper Bobby Shmurda's Legal Troubles?
Because throwing shade at capitalism is easier.
Hungarians Elect Free Market Advocate in By-Election, Right-Wing Ruling Party Loses Supermajority
Zoltán Kész defeated a member of the ruling party, ending its razor-thin supermajority hold on parliament.
The Employment Benefits of Cutting Unemployment Benefits
Does a new NBER study prove that cutting unemployment benefits increases employment?
U.S. No Longer Slides in Economic Freedom Ratings, But Still Only 'Mostly Free'
Whew. We won't have to match ourselves against Bulgaria anytime soon.
Free Market Socialism
A freed market has the effect of peaceful cooperation controlling the means of production
Is Capitalism Environmentally Unsustainable?
The goal must be to find ways for liberty and the environment to flourish together, not to sacrifice one in the vain hope of protecting the other.
How to Slake California's Thirst
Following Australia's lead on water rights and water markets would solve the state's water shortage.
How Markets and Property Rights Can Protect Nature
It's natural-and wrong-to assume greedy capitalists will run amok and destroy the Earth unless stopped by regulation.
Blame World War I For Whistleblower Persecution—And So Much More
U.S. involvement in World War I lasted just a year and a half. But government today uses its leavings to threaten Americans' freedom.
Obama Seeks to Block U.S. Corporations From Moving Overseas
"Economic patriotism" is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
You Can't Blame Americans for Not Feeling Exceptional
John Kerry called it like it is, and neocons are throwing a tiresome fit.
