“The government never minds having more power, and is always prepared to paper over the problems it creates. An economy not bludgeoned by powerful elites is the ideal we should seek, even if it has a name that is wildly… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
“The market economy is delivering miracles by the minute and yet we hardly notice or care; worse, we denounce the realization of this dream of all of history, this coming of heaven on earth and call it decadent and dangerous.” — 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… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
Anarchy is all around us. Without it, our world would fall apart. All progress is due to it. All order extends from it. All… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
“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… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
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… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
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
