The Fetish of Full Employment
BY HENRY HAZLIT
Economics In One Lesson, Chapter 10
The economic goal of any nation, as of any individual, is to get the greatest results with...
Disbanding Troops and Bureaucrats
BY HENRY HAZLIT
Economics In One Lesson, Chapter 9
When, after every great war, it is proposed to demobilize the armed forces, there is always a...
Spread The-Work Schemes
BY HENRY HAZLIT
Economics In One Lesson, Chapter 8
I have referred to various union make-work and featherbed practices. These practices, and the public toleration of...
Larry Reed – “The Seven Principles of Sound Public Policy”
Lawrence W. Reed is President of the Foundation for Economic Education and the author of the book Real Heroes: Inspiring True Stories of Courage,...
The Free Market Beats Government Planning Every Time
BY WALTER WILLIAMS
One of the most challenging and important jobs for an economics professor is to teach students how little we know and can...
Benjamin Constant, Eloquent Defender of Freedom
DAVID BOAZ, CATO INSTITUTE
Today is the 250th anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Constant, a prominent French liberal in the postrevolutionary era, whom Isaiah Berlin called “the most...