https://oll.libertyfund.org/quote/william-cobbett-on-the-dangers-posed-by-the-paper-aristocracy-1804 The English radical William Cobbett (1763-1835) objected to the funding of the war against Napoleon by issuing debt and…

https://oll.libertyfund.org/quote/617?fbclid=IwAR3eMtPNZbi17XGh0QYRiA8hs3wBOQQ8PY4oSzPdSgItYQHo8OnrSGUndS8 The French economist Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) argues that under socialism’s facade of nice-sounding terms like fraternity, solidarity, and equality…

https://psyche.co/ideas/the-mathematical-case-against-blaming-people-for-their-misfortune?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=31d26b3531-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_01_18_05_30&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-31d26b3531-40962949 Kenny Chow was born in Myanmar, and moved to New York City in 1987. He worked for years as…

https://oll.libertyfund.org/quote/511?fbclid=IwAR2GHm9zXnNcCxBqyzRhtaeX5VHfG5DtJKjrxd8bgjNtHEeg9ORc9wBiz48 The Scottish judge Lord Kames (1696-1782) thought that the Courts should step in to ban grants of monopoly issued…

https://oll.libertyfund.org/quote/548?fbclid=IwAR2Mj05HDOp4hgq-tad5JSpE_CNSl7p2_zS6-hxAFMePgp1oi4V2GKWekGo The political theorist Anthony de Jasay (1925-) believes that interest groups (made up of “predators” and free-riding “parasites”) will…

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/09/inequality-free-market-myth-billionaires We need an informed public that sees through the poisonous myth billionaires want us to believe: that income is…

Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The American Institute for Economic Research, Even after eleven years experience, and a per Bitcoin…

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/11/economics-and-epidemiology-revisited.html The Economist was kind enough to reference my earlier blog post on this topic, from April 12, so I…

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/pandemic-was-final-blow-our-collective-notion-money-something-real By Eric Peters, CIO of One River Asset Management “The shift to digital forms of currencies is inevitable,” declared…

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/10/hayekian-behavioral-economics.html From Cass Sunstein: A neo-Hayekian approach would seek to reduce the knowledge problem by asking not what outsiders want,…