Globalization has promoted lasting gains but also elicited criticism. In this essay, Sarah Thomas focuses on two achievements ...

The Monterrey spirit is a shared set of ideas, beliefs, norms about life, work, trade, entrepreneurship, and authority. It speaks to what is worth pursuing in life, to what a regiomontano can and ...

Upon his election as President in April of 1790, churches and congregations wrote letters to George Washington congratulating him on his victory. In true Washington fashion, he replied to each with ...

Hoskins and O’Driscoll explore the role of property rights in economic development ...

Larry Reed revisits “I, Pencil” with reflections on the global market. This essay is an initiative of Liberty International (previously known as the International Society for Individual Liberty).

Nick Wilson compares the political, social, and moral thought of Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois. Booker T. Washington was born into slavery in 1856. He published his autobiography, Up from ...

A libertarian world won’t eliminate all poverty, but it offers powerful tools for greatly reducing it, and improving the lives of the poorest and least privileged. The stereotypes of libertarian ...

Defying categorization as a socialist or capitalist thinker, Josiah Warren was staunchly individualist—distrustful of institutions like states that subsumed individuals into “combinations.” Owen’s ...

Guaranteeing a minimum income to the poor is better than our current system of welfare, Zwolinski argues. And it can be justified by libertarian principles. Still skeptical? Well, here are three ...

Prof. Aeon Skoble describes the key differences between positive and negative rights. Fundamentally, positive rights require others to provide you with either a good or service. A negative right, on ...

The factors that led to the disintegration and eventual decline of ancient Egypt in 2 BCE, enabled the rise of the Kushite kingdom in Nubia. Prior to the decline of Egypt, Nubian territory comprised ...

The government’s coercive taxing power necessarily creates two classes: those who create and those who consume the wealth expropriated and transferred by that power. Say the words “class analysis” or ...