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Austrian Economics Article

Brother, Can You Spare a Decade?

May 1, 2009

Perspective – Liberty Magazine – May 2009
Brother, Can You Spare a Decade?
by Mark Skousen
Few things other than a New Deal can be more painful than an economic depression. But few eras were more vital and enjoyable than the private side of the last one.
One of the rare books in my financial library is “I Like [...]

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The Necessary Evil

August 26, 2008

Suggestion – Liberty Magazine
The Necessary Evil
by Mark Skousen
Today libertarians spend most of their time lamenting the consequences of big government. And rightly so. Today government is less a defender of freedom and more a Hobbesian leviathan that undermines prosperity. When we do talk about limited government, it is often seen solely as “a necessary evil.”1 [...]

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The World Map of Economic Freedom

June 1, 2002

Personal Snapshots
Forecasts & Strategies
June 2002
“Economic [...]

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The Right to Be Left Alone

May 1, 2002

From The President’s Desk
Published in Ideas on Liberty – May 2002
The [...]

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The Troubled Economics of Ayn Rand

January 1, 2001

Published in January, 2001, issue of Liberty Magazine:
THE TROUBLED ECONOMICS OF AYN RAND
by Mark Skousen
“No creator was prompted by a desire to serve his brothers…”
–Howard Roark, The Fountainhead (1994:710)
Ayn Rand, author of the celebrated Capitalism: The Unknown Idea, is honored almost universally as the fountainhead of market capitalism, an impassioned proponent of reason, individualism, and [...]

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The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, Updated

November 1, 2000

Economics on Trial
Ideas on Liberty
November 2000
by Mark Skousen
“In [...]

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Having Their Cake

October 1, 2000

Economics on Trial
Ideas on Liberty
October 2000
Having Their Cake
by Mark Skousen
“The duty of ’saving’ became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth [...]

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