The reason why totalitarian dictators are so dangerous is that they really believe in what they say and do.
Richard M. Ebeling
Dr. Richard M. Ebeling is the recently appointed BB&T Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Free Enterprise Leadership at The Citadel. He was formerly professor of Economics at Northwood University, president of The Foundation for Economic Education (2003–2008), was the Ludwig von Mises Professor of Economics at Hillsdale College (1988–2003) in Hillsdale, Michigan, and served as vice president of academic affairs for The Future of Freedom Foundation (1989–2003).
The Delusions and Dangers of the New Mercantilism
Trump has assumed the powers of a near absolute monarch to decide when, why, and against whom he will arbitrarily raise and lower and raise again tariffs on the importation of goods into the United States.
The Politics and Economics of Plato, Aristotle, and the Ancient Greeks
In Aristotle, we find a more subtle and sophisticated understanding of some economic themes than in Plato. While Aristotle’s answers were incomplete and often misdirected, as well as incorrect, he at least was among the first to ask the types of questions that centuri…
The Real Meaning of Thanksgiving: The Triumph of Capitalism over Collectivism
In the wilderness of the New World, the Plymouth Pilgrims had progressed from the false dream of communism to the sound realism of capitalism.
When Soviet Power Crumbled: The Failed Hard-Line Coup Attempt of August 1991
The demise of the Communist Party and the Soviet system was one of the momentous events in modern history.
The Gold Standard and Monetary Freedom
The monetary central planners can never be more successful in determining a “optimal” quantity of money or the “right” interest rates to assure savings-investment coordination than all other socialist planners were when they tried to centrally plan agricultural …
President Donald Trump’s Trade Fallacies
The best policy is the full and uncompromising policy of free trade, regardless of what and how other governments interfere with and try to manipulate the exports of their own country.
IMF SDRs and The Illusion of Inflationary Prosperity
SDRs are simply a mechanism by which to increase global currencies to meet the demands of governments to spend more than they are able to either collect in taxes or borrow from domestic and international creditors. It is a way for governments to continue to live and spe…
DOGE Wars
On the aggressive, emotional, and irrational response of the Democrats and their allies on “the left” to Trump’s DOGE campaign.
Less Than 50% of Democrats Have a Positive View of Capitalism
To understand these negative views and pessimistic attitudes, we have to first ask, what do these young people think “capitalism” means?
Ludwig Von Mises, The Austrian Theory of Money, Banking, and the Business Cycle
What should have been a minor economic downturn became the Great Depression because government interventions prevented the market process from working.
Ludwig Von Mises explained why with his Austrian theory of Money, Banking, and the Business Cycle.
Fascist Franklin Roosevelt’s Bogus Economic Bill of Rights
Not one of these “rights” can be provided to anyone without some other American reduced in his freedom.
The Beginnings of a Reborn Austrian School of Economics
Fifty years ago, on October 10, 1973, one of the leading members of the Austrian School of Economics, Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973), passed away at the age of 92.
Why Pure Socialism is Impossible
The establishment of a comprehensive system of socialist central planning would be equivalent to going back in time, before the institutions of private property and market competition had enabled the utilization of prices for rational decision-making.
How Socialists Hijacked The Word “Liberal”
In the 19th century, liberalism was identified with the belief in and the defense of individual liberty in various spheres of life.
Misunderstanding the Meaning of a “Monopoly”
As long as government secures and protects private property rights, enforces all contracts entered into voluntarily and through mutual agreement, and assures law and order under an impartial rule of law, “monopoly” as an economic or social problem is virtually non-e…
A Declaration of Independence from Tyrannical Government
The “monkish ignorance and superstition” of today is the misplaced belief that the individual is to be sacrificed to the group, the collective, to the nation – as long as the banner under which it is done is called “democracy” or “social justice.”
Celebrating Adam Smith on His 300th Birthday
Three hundred years ago, on June 5, 1723, one of the most important and influential thinkers in modern history, Adam Smith, was born in the small Scottish village of Kirkcaldy. There are few individuals who it can be said have left as lasting and as positive a legacy on…
Liberalism, True and False
This new “liberalism” of compulsive paternalism was and is, in fact, a false liberalism.
If America Were Totalitarian, Where Would You Want to Live?
Today, government gorges on trillions of dollars of tax money every year, and still has to borrow a trillion dollars a year on top of all that, which has created a huge national debt.
The Impossibility of Socialism
Socialism as a means for improving the condition of man is impossible.
Would You Abdicate If You Could Be the Dictator?
“If only I was dictator, I know how to set things right.”
Preferential Policies: An International Perspective by Thomas Sowell
Regardless of the reason or rationale, the social effect of affirmative-action policies is to politicize social relationships. And the consequences of this have been everything from systems of privilege and corruption to mob violence and civil war.
Can Capitalism Survive? 80 Years After Schumpeter’s Answer
Eighty years ago, in the midst of the Second World War, Austrian-born economist Joseph A. Schumpeter published one of his most famous books, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (1942). A central question that he asked and tried to answer was, “Can Capitalism Survive?…
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