“It's WW2 and there are wage controls in place. Instead of health care, companies decide to offer employees shoes. Having absorbed those costs, they later lobby for every company to be required to offer shoes. That calls forth regulation and… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share
“Socialism is not really an option in the material world. There can be no collective ownership of anything materially scarce. One or another faction will assert control in the name of society. Inevitably, the faction will be the most powerful… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
“The progress of the last 500 years shows us precisely what the good ideas are: social harmony, human rights, the aspiration of universal dignity,… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
“...the story of liberty and its future is not only about the raw assertion of rights but also about grace, aesthetics, beauty, complexity, service to others, community, the gradual emergence of cultural norms, and the spontaneous development of extended orders of commercial and private relationships. Freedom is what gives life to the human imagination and enables the working out of… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share
“But now I understand something more fully that I once only understood abstractly. I see how utterly ridiculous it is to think that the… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
Here is a principle to use in all aspects of economics and policy. When you find a good or service that is in huge demand but the supply is so limited to the point that the price goes up and up, look for the regulation that is causing it. This applies regardless of the sector, whether transportation, gas, education, food,… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share
Anarchy is all around us. Without it, our world would fall apart. All progress is due to it. All order extends from it. All blessed things that rise above the state of nature are owned to it. The human race thrives only because of the lack of control, not because of it. I’m saying that we need ever more absence… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share
“A person who says “every person has a right to a decent education” may not actually mean “people should be robbed to support bad… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy. — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
The primary contribution of government to this world is to elicit, entrench, enable, and finally to codify the most destructive aspects of the human… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
“The world has changed to permit ever more people in all corners of the globe to cooperate to their mutual betterment. The very prospect is inspiring people to claim their freedom and use it to make their lives better. By comparison to this activity, the disgusting behavior of nation states appears like a ridiculous anachronism that will be steamrolled by… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share
Here we have the heart of the difference between Hayek and Keynes: one knew that markets work to give us the best of all… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
“It's WW2 and there are wage controls in place. Instead of health care, companies decide to offer employees shoes. Having absorbed those costs, they later lobby for every company to be required to offer shoes. That calls forth regulation and monopolization of the shoe industry. Shoes are heavily subsidized. Every shoe must be approved. Producers must be domestic. They must… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share
I'm not for pretending that bad stuff doesn't exist, and a passion for justice and truth is a libertarian trait. But the idea of… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
