If you’ve ever been scuba diving or snorkeling, you probably know that swimmers aren’t supposed to touch the coral with their bare hands.
READ MOREExtremely pleased to announce the release of “The March of History,” a musical a project of the American Institute for Economic Research three years in the making.
READ MOREThe story of Moby Dick warns us of the unforeseen consequences of government intervention and point to the potency of market forces in terms of protecting the environment.
READ MOREParticipants of the 1619 Project evince little awareness of the deep historical deficiencies in Baptist’s work or of similar problems among the other “New Economic History scholars on whom they rest their case.
READ MOREOnce freed from the mischaracterizations of economic theory that the new historians of capitalism have imported from Karl Polanyi, it is easy to see the foolishness of their endeavors.
READ MOREMany intellectuals called for an end to private charity and its replacement with a full government system, not due to the paucity of private benevolence, but rather due to what they considered its excessive generosity.
READ MOREA close and careful look at the empirical record reveals that one cannot infer that America was made richer from slavery. It is even clear that America was made poorer by slavery.
READ MOREA capitalist benefactor of the American abolitionist movement used his business to wage war against slavery. He ended up revolutionizing the American financial industry in the process.
READ MORENothing in Rothbard’s later view manages to cast doubt on his earlier view and White’s thesis, much less refute them.
READ MOREThe anti-capitalist ideology of southern slaveholders presents a conundrum for historians who erroneously equate the plantation economy with the free market.
READ MOREThe notion of the cultic milieu helps explain many aspects of today’s politics, such as the rise of movements like the alt-right, and the growth of fringe beliefs across the ideological spectrum.
READ MOREShould we study and learn from the past? Of course we should. Should we yearn for the past, seek to return there, and perhaps undo the progress of the last several centuries? Of course we shouldn’t.
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