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Saturday, May 24, 2025
 
 
Thomas Malthus’s Disciples: The Pro-Natalists
Jeffrey L. Degner
Progressives have repeated the Malthus theme of overpopulation for six decades. However, the real demographic problem facing modern industrial nations has been the dearth of population growth fueled by an inflation culture.
 
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MMT and US History: Redefining Chartalism
Joshua Mawhorter
MMT appeals to a few dubious historical examples to allegedly establish chartalism’s authority and validity, only to discard this element as irrelevant and unnecessary.
 
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A Misleading Brainteaser
Can a clever riddle teach faulty economics? A viral brainteaser about apples and bananas may seem harmless, until you realize it’s smuggling in bad logic dressed as math. Precision in thinking matters now more than ever.
 
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Homeschooling Is Our Best Defense Against the State
Homeschooled children are educated more effectively than public school students and at a fraction of the cost of public education. Naturally, the government wants to destroy it.
 
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Marx’s Economic Forecasts: Over 150 Years of Failure
Karl Marx still is revered by modern academics as a prophet. However, given Marx’s penchant for making false predictions, at best he would be a false prophet, someone whose word cannot be trusted.
 
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The Rise of War Propaganda and the Defeat of Laissez-Faire
Ryan McMaken looks at how classical liberals’ pro-peace foreign policy was defeated by a century of war propaganda.
 
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Why Are US Drug Prices So High?
Alex Tabarrok joins Bob Murphy to break down Trump’s drug price executive order, price controls, and the real economics behind Big Pharma and healthcare innovation.
 
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The Triumph of Economic Freedom
Mark reflects on the persistent misconceptions about capitalism in America and offers up a “Marxist interpretation” of our dilemma.
 
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Engines of Destruction in the Great War: Artillery, Society, and War Finance
 
Hunt Tooley at the recent Revisionist History of War Conference in Auburn.
 
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The World at War
 
Ralph Raico offers a compelling, classical liberal perspective on the economic roots of twentieth-century conflict. Raico weaves together history and theory to illuminate the deeper causes of the world wars—insights that remain strikingly relevant in the context of ongoing debates over intervention and perpetual war.
 
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