June 2023 ISSUE

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John Locke: Mercantilist?

By Amy Willis

I recently had occasion to read (for the first time) John Locke's "Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest, and Raising the Value of Money." [SC]1 Among other things, this got me thinking about the common claim that Locke was a mercantilist.2 I th...
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Article

The Economics of Aging: Living Longer versus Living Better

By Amy Willis

The July 2021 issue of Nature Aging—one of the prestigious Nature periodicals' group—published "The Economic Value of Targeting Aging."1 It begins by asserting that changes in U.S. life expectancy and attention to "healthy aging" raise questions that biomedical scientist...
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Let Go of the Zero-Sum Fallacy and Enjoy Others’ Good Fortune

By Art Carden

People believe many myths, but I suspect few are as pernicious as the zero-sum fallacy. It sees the world as a story of an unending struggle over a fixed prize such that someone who has something only has it because someone else does not. It's an understandable thing to beli...
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Book Review

Legal Safeguards Against Omnipotent Lawmakers

By Pierre Lemieux

A Book Review of Law, Legislation, and Liberty, by Friedrich A. Hayek. Jeremy Shearmur, editor.1 Friedrich Hayek's trilogy Law, Legislation, and Liberty, published in three separate volumes in 1973, 1976, and 1979, was recently republished in a single book under the ...
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David M. Hart

Editor's Introduction to "A Tadpole Constitution. Part II. Majority Rule by Any Other Name"

Reflections from Europe Jan 7 2004

Editor's Introduction to "A Tadpole Constitution. Part I. How Confederacy Could Turn into a Federal Superstate"

Reflections from Europe Dec 1 2003

Editor's Introduction to "Free-Riding on the Euro"

Reflections from Europe Sep 17 2003

Editor's Introduction to "Property and its Enemies. Part III. How to Get a Free Lunch? Just Apply for It."

Reflections from Europe Sep 1 2003

Editor's Introduction to "Property and its Enemies. Part I. 'Design Faults' in Locke's Theory of Property Taint Ownership with Guilt"

Reflections from Europe Aug 4 2003

Editor's Introduction to "Property and its Enemies. Part II. Is Ownership a Myth?"

Reflections from Europe Aug 4 2003

Editor's Introduction to "Capitalism and Virtue: Politicians Do Not Understand the Economy, But Do Managers?"

Reflections from Europe Jun 2 2003

Editor's Introduction to "Float or Sink? The Millstone of the 'Social Market' in Germany"

Reflections from Europe May 15 2003

Editor's Introduction to "More Nonsense on Stilts: Mr. Bentham Is At It Again"

Reflections from Europe Apr 24 2003

Editor's Introduction to "What Price Pride? On the Hidden Costs of Economic Illiteracy"

Reflections from Europe Apr 7 2003

Editor's Introduction to "Turkey Knocking on Europe's Door"

Reflections from Europe Apr 7 2003

Editor's Introduction to "The Sins of the Fathers and the Sins of the Sons: Economic Consequences of a United States of Europe"

Reflections from Europe Mar 3 2003

Life and Works of Antoine Louis Claude, Comte Destutt de Tracy

Featured Article Jan 1 2002

Life and Works of Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

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Life and Works of Jean-Baptiste Say

Article Jan 2 2001

Life and Works of Gustave de Molinari

Featured Article Jan 1 2001

David R. Henderson

The Nobel Factor: What Does the Prize Reward?

Book Review Apr 5 2021

Economists Waging War

Book Review Aug 3 2020

Romance and Reality: A Review of Romance of the Rails by Randal O'Toole

Book Review Nov 4 2019

Economics Works

Liberty Classics May 6 2019

Economists Know: Ask What Changed

Featured Article Feb 4 2019

A Cure for Our Health Care Ills: The Supply Side

Article Oct 1 2018

A Cure for Our Health Care Ills

Article Jun 4 2018

What a Wonderful World

Featured Article Oct 2 2017

Why Predatory Pricing Is Highly Unlikely

Featured Article May 1 2017

Extending Hayek's Insights about Local Knowledge

Featured Article Dec 5 2016

Honor Laborers

Featured Article Sep 5 2016

In Praise of Debt

Featured Article Jun 6 2016

Think on the Margin

Featured Article Jan 4 2016

Would a Return to Conscription Substantially Reduce the Probability of War?

Featured Article Sep 7 2015

TANSTAAFL, There Ain't No Such Thing as a Free Lunch

Featured Article Mar 3 2014

The Robber Barons: Neither Robbers nor Barons

Featured Article Mar 4 2013

How Property Rights Solve Problems

Featured Article Apr 2 2012

GDP Fetishism

Featured Article Mar 1 2010

Charles L. Hooper

Economists Know: Ask What Changed

Featured Article Feb 4 2019

A Cure for Our Health Care Ills: The Supply Side

Article Oct 1 2018

A Cure for Our Health Care Ills

Article Jun 4 2018

The Dismal Economics of Drug Development

Featured Article Aug 7 2017

Henry George's Protection or Free Trade: A Critical Review

Article Feb 6 2017

Who Is Harmed by Insider Trading?

Featured Article Mar 2 2015

Insider Trading Turned Inside Out

Featured Article Jun 2 2014

NSA Surveillance: A Cost/Benefit Analysis

Featured Article Jan 6 2014

Never Mind: FDA Changes Own Rules in Midstream

Featured Article Nov 5 2012

Mercantilism Lives

Featured Article Apr 4 2011

FDA Walls Do Not Encircle

Featured Article Jul 7 2008

R. Glenn Hubbard