October 02, 2018
All Things Marx and Socialism at Liberty Fund
A couple of items at the Liberty Fund website that might be of interest to BHLers. This month’s “Liberty Matters” is on Marx, with the main essay by Virgil Storr,…
Author: Steve Horwitz
September 13, 2018
The Single-Entry Moral Bookkeeping of Ethical Opposition to “Price Gouging”
Having spent a lot of time explaining why we should allow prices to move freely during emergencies, I have found that people sympathetic to “anti-gouging” laws will sometimes concede the…
May 07, 2018
Grocery Stores and American Economic Progress
I have one of the feature articles at EconLib this month. It’s some musings on the evolution of grocery stores and what it says about American economic progress. A snippet:…
March 13, 2018
My Response to Elizabeth Bruenig on Socialism
Over at libertarianism.org, I have a longish blog post responding to the Washington Post’s Elizabeth Bruenig’s two recent columns defending socialism. Some snippets: “The overarching problem with Bruenig’s two-column argument is her…
March 06, 2018
Promoting Liberty or Provoking the Left?
Here are a few thoughts for college libertarians who are able to invite speakers to campus and how they might do so in the most productive ways. Let me start…
November 26, 2017
Pining for Murderous Dictators is not the Path to Liberty
You’d think the statement in my title should be obvious, but if you were wondering why it’s been so easy for so many supposed libertarians to flip over to the…