George Orwell (1903–1950), the author of the anti-Utopian novels Animal Farm (1945) and 1984 (1949), has often been quoted as saying, “Some ideas are so absurd that only an intellectual can believe them.” Whether he, in fact, said it ...
Fifty years ago, on October 9, 1974, what has become known as the Nobel Prize in Economics was announced for that year in Stockholm, Sweden. It was a joint award to Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal (1898–1987) and Austrian economist ...
The idea of making a case for “open borders” arouses a great deal of disagreement and disapproval. Open borders, in the minds of some, implies no borders, it is argued and feared. There may be some who oppose the ...
Donald Trump’s reelection as president of the United States has been partly identified with his promise to “close the border” to illegal immigration and the threat of a mass deportation of millions of those who have been living in ...
Shortly after this article is published, we will know the outcome of the 2024 presidential campaign. But whether the winner is one or the other of the two major political party candidates, one thing is certain: the intrusive and ...
The Future of Freedom Foundation hosted an online conference entitled, “The Case for Open Borders” in the fall of 2024. The first presentation was by Richard M. Ebeling on September 30, 2024.
Election years have the tendency to bring out the worst in political rhetoric. Both major political parties color their opponents as dangers to the foundations of American democracy and even the world in general. I remember seeing on television ...
Seventy-five years ago, on September 14, 1949, Yale University Press published Ludwig von Mises’s Human Action: A Treatise on Economics. Almost 900 pages in length, it soon became recognized as one of the major works in economics in the ...
Wars, conquest, mass killings, occupation, and plunder have plagued the world for all of recorded history. Primitive tribes fighting over waterholes and hunting grounds. Kings and princes claiming divine right to rule over all those they conquer and impose ...
To discuss the political economy of natural versus contrived inequalities requires some explanation of what is meant by “natural,” “contrived,” and “inequalities.” The use of the word “natural” has had a long, if sometimes controversial, history in economics over ...
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