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Transport infrastructure developed rapidly in Classical Liberal Britain. In the 20th century interventionist policies made rational...

Regulation is destructive of liberty.  That is why Adolf Hitler suggested using a mass of regulation as a strategy to entrench state...

In Seattle a six-block area under BLM control, the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), has declared independence from the USA. This is...

Democratic Socialist states already faced existential challenges, not least an emerging global slump. They might have papered over the...

People seem to welcome government spending announcements, no matter how ill conceived. They do not see the ‘opportunity costs’ of better...

State imposed lock-downs have been an economic disaster on an unprecedented, if wholly predictable, scale. But, surely, they have saved...

People often resent getting out of bed to work for unlovable bosses in unrewarding occupations. They may feel hard done by. But there is...

The Industrial Revolution is the key event in world history. It might never have happened if Britain had not established conditions of...

People in Mesopotamia where agrarian states first established themselves resisted them stoutly and often successfully. But the simplicity...

High housing costs lower the quality and raise the cost of living in Britain. This is because the state deliberately restricts the supply...

The media assure us that state spending is good for growth. Spending is assumed to be mainly for health, education and pensions, which...

If you watch the news you may think that the state is necessary to manage and control society. The opposite is the case. Societies are...

The corona virus lockdown is a colossal blunder repeated by most governments around the world. It could not happen in a free society. The...

Socialism is a utopian creed which requires an impracticably perfect New Man or New Woman to make it work. Socialism is a utopian creed...

People voice concerns that a free society could be a dog eat dog deal where only the more productive would benefit. The opposite is the...

In just a couple of years in 1989-1991 Soviet Communism vanished in the USSR and Eastern Europe. At the same time, Maoist Communism in...

Many people feel a little down about their place in the world sometimes - libertarians as much as anyone. But we are by no means alone....

We have seen that the state protected banking system inflicts damaging boom and bust business cycles (see post on May 3rd). We have seen...

Since the industrial revolution economic slumps have created periodic mass unemployment. Austrian School economists explain that the...

Back in 1920 Ludwig von Mises, the greatest of the Austrian School economists, wrote an article called ‘Economic Calculation in the...