6 Reasons Why the Most Hated Politician in Latin America Became President of Brazil
Jair Bolsonaro is likely to be the most despised politician in Latin America. At least among a certain portion of the population. Some say he is the “Trump of the …
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Freedom Means a Right to Discriminate
Should employers have the right to discriminate in hiring on the basis of obesity? The Washington State Supreme Court recently ruled that “it is illegal for employers in Washington to …
The Deep State: The Headless Fourth Branch of Government
School children learn that there are three branches of government: the legislative, executive, and judicial. In actual practice, however, there are four branches of government. The fourth is what for …
Lo que significa ser anarcocapitalista
El artículo «¿Qué es anarquía?» de Butler Shaffer en LRC inició una discusión en el blog de Reason y me inspiró a escribir unas ideas que yo también he tenido …
There Is No End to History, No Perfect Existence
All doctrines that have sought to discover in the course of human history some definite trend in the sequence of changes have disagreed, in reference to the past, with the …
The Instability of Markets Is Not Nearly as Bad as the Instability of Government Policy
A seductive (if poorly considered) critique of markets is the notion that they are so wildly unpredictable and inherently unstable that we need government to watch over them and intervene …
Conservatism: A Vanishing Tradition
[The Vanishing Tradition: Perspective on American Conservatism. Edited by Paul Gottfried. Cornell University Press, 2020. 223 + pages.] Paul Gottfried’s excellent anthology of essays on American conservatives chronicles a key …
El contrato Yellow Dog: ¡Volvamoslo a instaurar!
El contrato Yellow Dog [«contrato de perro amarillo»] es un tipo de contrato muy honorable. Afirma que una de las condiciones para poder trabajar es que el trabajador renuncie a …
Does Economic Theory Work in Business?
Marketing guru and fund investor Hunter Hastings joins the Human Action podcast for a look at Economics for Entrepreneurs, a new platform which uses Austrian theory to teach actionable entrepreneurship. …
Argentina’s Destructive Cycle of Economic Populism
Argentina’s election of a left-wing government last month has people speculating about the country’s future. Previously, I wrote about how neither outgoing President Mauricio Macri nor the ticket of Alberto …