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Political Economy

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For wherever violence is used, and injury done, though by hands appointed to administer Justice, it is still violence and injury, however colour'd with the Name, Pretences, or Forms of Law, the end whereof being to protect and redress the innocent, by an unbiassed application of it, to all who are under it; wherever that is not bona fide done, War is made upon the Sufferers, who having no appeal on Earth to right them, they are left to the only remedy in such Cases, an appeal to Heaven.

[image: liberty.gif] John Locke, The Second Treatise of Civil Government, §20 At left: the Liberty Tree Flag of 1775  

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Editorial Essays

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Economics & Politics

•Say's Law and Supply Side Economics [60.2K][image: update.gif]
•Anti-American Americans [19.0K][image: new.gif]
•The Practical Rules of Bureaucracy [21.1K][image: update.gif]
•Essential Truths of Corporate Business [13.5K][image: new.gif]
•The Crooked Timber of Humanity [97.3K]
•The State of Nature and Other Political Thought Experiments [54.2K]
•The "Monopoly of Force" and Mala Prohibita
•John Locke (1632-1704) [72.1K]
•Smith's Law, Free Trade, and Free Immigration [42.3K]
•"Justly Discredited," Trade, Moneylending, & Capital [26.9K]
•The Paternal State, the Liberal State, and the Welfare State [28.3K]
•Friedrich A. Hayek (1899-1992) [4.9K]
•Exchange with Mark Notturo on Popper and Hayek [111.9K]
•Rent-Seeking, Public Choice, and The Prisoner's Dilemma [43.8K]
•Rent-Seeking •Public Choice Theory •The "Prisoner's Dilemma"
•Positive, Negative and Zero Sum Games[image: update.gif] •John Nash
•Capitalism, the Free Market, and the Duties of Property and Contract [64.2K]
•The Astors •The Vanderbilts [107.9K] •The Rockefellers •The Hearsts •The Fords •The Hiltons [7.3K] •Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) [14.0K] •"Justly Discredited," Trade, Moneylending, & Capital [26.9K]
•Creationism & Darwinism, Politics & Economics [26.3K]
•Business, Government, & Freedom of Association [26.2]
•The Marxist-Leninist Theory of History [16.9K]
•The Essential Anti-Communist Bibliography [37.6K]
•The Post-Modern Left
•Islâmic Fascism and Satyagraha in Palestine [35.2]

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It is clear to me now that the

Republic no longer functions.

Queen Amidala [Star Wars, The Phantom Menace, 1999]

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Politics

•Machiavelli and the Moral Dilemma of Statecraft [36.3K]
•Human Nature, Anarchy, and Capitalism [19.0K]
•Positive & Negative Liberties in Three Dimensions [40.2K]
•Liberties in Two Dimensions
•The "Instant" Quiz •The Times of London Poll •The Rasmussen Poll •The Supreme Court
•Liberties in Three Dimensions
•Conservatism, History, and Progress [26.9K]
•Violence, Non-Violence, and Progress in History [40.2K]
•Rights, Responsibilities, and Communitarianism [21.8K]
•The Bill of No Rights
•In Praise of Apathy [10.4K]
•The Great Republic: Presidents and States of the United States, and Comments on American History [172.6K]
•Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States •The Old Republic, 1789-1861
•The Star-Spangled Banner...