March 2025 ISSUE

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Utopian Experiments and Three Morality Tales: Socialism in New Harmony, Indiana

By D. Eric Schansberg

[caption id="attachment_79185" align="alignnone" width="200"] New Harmony, Indiana[/caption] This year is the 200th anniversary of British industrialist Robert Owen's social experiments at New Harmony, Indiana—a utopian commune on 20,000 acres along the Wab...
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An Economic Approach to Homer’s Odyssey: Part III

By Tyler Cowen

Polities and Economics In the first article of this series, I outlined what an economic approach to reading Homer's epic, The Odyssey,1 might look like. I then turned to Homer's treatment of comparative political regimes in the second article. In this final essa...
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Book Review

The Human Moral Mind

By Arnold Kling

Experiments consistently reveal that our moral judgments are driven by perceptions of harm. We condemn acts based on how much they seem to victimize someone vulnerable. —Kurt Gray, Outraged: Why We Fight About Morality and Politics and How to Find Common Gr...
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Productivity and the Worth of Work in Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina

By Richard Gunderman

Leo Tolstoy. This article was inspired by a recent Virtual Reading Group on Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, led by Richard Gunderman. Learn more about our Virtual Reading Groups at the Online Library of Liberty. Productivity is a measure of efficiency, tending to...
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Using Reason to Understand the Abuse and Decline of Reason

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Coordinated Conflict: A Property Rights Perspective on Traffic

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Interpreting Social and Economic Evolution

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A Child Comes With His Own Bread

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Can Government Intervention Work?

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When Searching for Monsters to Destroy, What Do We Fail to Discover?

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Can Price Controls Fight Inflation?

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Ludwig von Mises' Socialism: A Proper Defense of Liberalism

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The Entrepreneurial Justice of the Market Process

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Private Property and Social Justice: Complements or Substitutes?

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Israel Kirzner and the "European Miracle"

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Conceived in Liberty or Conceived in Sin? Exploitation and Modern Prosperity

Article Nov 4 2024

Helmut Schoeck's Envy: A Theory of Social Behaviour

Book Review Jun 3 2024

Setting the Record Straight on Income Inequality

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Let Go of the Zero-Sum Fallacy and Enjoy Others' Good Fortune

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From Here to Serenity: How Public Choice Makes Me Less Cynical

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Where Is the Free Market Utopia?

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Is Market Failure a Sufficient Condition for Government Intervention?

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