Occupation: Economist Birth: September 2, 1949
Democracy virtually assures that only bad and dangerous men will ever rise to the top of government..
Economic theory has nothing to say as to what commodity will acquire the status of money. Historically, it happened to be gold. But if the physical m….
Thanks to the central bank, most "monetary experts" and "leading macro-economists" can, by putting them on the payroll, be turned into government pro….
All the impoverishing effects of socialism are with us in the U.S.: reduced levels of investment and saving, the misallocation of resources, the over….
An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms.
Egalitarianism, in every form and shape, is incompatible with the idea of private property..
The recently ended twentieth century was characterized by a level of human rights violations unparalleled in all of human history. In his book Death ….
If an agency is the ultimate judge in every case of conflict, then it is also judge in all conflicts involving itself. Consequently, instead of merel….
It is states that are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of millions of people and immeasurable destruction in the 20th century alone. Compared t….
What is true, just, and beautiful is not determined by popular vote. The masses everywhere are ignorant, short-sighted, motivated by envy, and easy t….
The state operates in a legal vacuum. There exists no contract between the state and its citizens..
A government is a compulsory territorial monopolist of ultimate decision-making (jurisdiction) and, implied in this, a compulsory territorial monopol….
Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything….
No, the state is anything but the result of a contract! No one with even just an ounce of common sense would agree to such a contract. I have a lot o….
Public officials are permitted to finance or subsidize their own activities through taxes. That is, they are permitted to engage in and live off, wh….
Contrary to any claim of a systematically “neutral” effect of taxation on production, the consequence of any such shortening of roundabout methods of….
Different people rise to the top under socialism than under capitalism. The higher on the socialist hierarchy you look, the more you will find peopl….
With the socialization of the health care system through institutions such as Medicaid and Medicare and the regulation of the insurance industry (by ….
If the right to vote were expanded to seven year olds … its policies would most definitely reflect the ‘legitimate concerns’ of children to have ‘ade….
Even the Founding Fathers of the U.S., nowadays considered the model of a democracy, were strictly opposed to it. Without a single exception, they th….
Private property implies exclusivity, inequality, and difference..