Those who favor more state power and more state intervention, on the other hand, tend to downplay the abusive and violent nature of state coercion. These apologists for the state often claim that the private sector is just as much…
In 1907, Justice Henry Bourne Higgins was asked to decide what constituted a fair and reasonable wage for an Australian worker. Rather than leave the question entirely to employers and workers, he examined the cost of supporting a family, including food,…
The expertise hubs enrich the international profile of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom. They enable joint work across regions through their focus on globally relevant policy issues. These include questions of international financial and economic policy, digital policy, security,…
Why does the United States, with all the wealth, education, and labor power at its disposal, provide so much less to its people than its industrial counterparts? Where does this reluctance to make material promises to the American people come…
Governments do not come up from the sake of ‘divine right’, but rather the consent of the population. If it acts against the interests of its citizens, it is their right to abolish it. It places consumers at the centre,…
Peter Boettke is a Distinguished University Professor of Economics at George Mason University and Director of the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center. He is a leading scholar in Austrian economics, public…
Looking at what’s just behind us in preparation for the week ahead. Chapter 13 (pp. 98–106) from The Reconstruction Papers. Quinn Slobodian's 2025 book provides the starting point of a more thorough post-mortem. Slobodian doesn’t—he probably can’t—tell the whole story. He…
I heard a quote from someone the other day and it is worth thinking about: "Patriotism is allegiance to an idea, nationalism is allegiance to your own kind." I always thought that Woody Guthrie was as patriotic as Curtis LeMay.
Last time, we read Michael Oakeshott's 'Rationalism in Politics.' In that essay, Oakeshott touched upon Hayek's 'The Road to Serfdom.' His assessment was that a plan to resist all planning, while perhaps better than its opposite, still belongs to the…
Libertarianism doesn’t signal approval of vice, nor does free trade ignore struggling communities. Indifference is not the only alternative to coercion. Yet McCarthy’s eulogy, like the others, is marred by mistakes. Here are three. The libertarian argument is against state…
Free Markets and Austrian Economics in Libertarianism: the news, the names and what changed.
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