It is an easy mistake to think that restrictions on international trade that help one industry “grow and prosper” will help all industries “grow and prosper.”

The locavore movement, like many parts of environmentalism, has an unfortunate tendency to dress itself in the clothing of science before lapsing into mysticism.

Like just about every other male between the ages of 13 and 25, I had tendencies, habits, and dispositions that could be charitably described as self-absorbed and boorish.

It looked … delicious. I was sure that it would taste delicious, too. But eating it would have been a bad idea for two reasons.

To see the sharing economy as merely “cheaper taxis and cheaper hotels” is to miss the point entirely.

The relevant alternative to a cheap healthcare provider for a lot of people isn’t a medical doctor — it’s Google.

I am furious. I was scrolling through my Facebook feed and learned that my friend Steve Horwitz had written almost 3,000 words in a single day in his new book chapter on inequality.

Parallels between the world of Orwell’s 1984 and our own are obvious — and troubling.

A city ordinance requires teenagers to have a business license before cutting grass for money.

On the 8th anniversary of Minecraft’s launch, let’s take a moment to appreciate just how great it is.

Each of his separate bodies of work would constitute a monumental achievement. Hayek did it all over the course of a single career that established him as one of the most important social thinkers of the 20th century.

Marx espoused confrontation and slander over careful and critical intellectual debate.

My own hands are dirty and my own heart is impure; however, I have seen the light. I repent.

We’re consuming entertainment, not insight, when we keep up with the news.

Even Santa’s elves can’t repeal the laws of supply and demand.

Thanks to people like Rey, secondhand power converters make their way into the hands of idealistic young future pilots shopping at Tosche Station.

There’s more to travel than the sticker price of different ways of getting from point A to point B.

Imposing the values of secularism on “oppressed” Muslim women who wish to buy burkinis merely replaces one form of religious oppression with another.

It’s a useful illustration of the logic of political action when the state is in a position to dispense favors, whether those favors be subsidies or mandates or barriers to entry that protect special interests’ profits.

Economic competition in functioning market economies it the best surefire way to reduce global poverty. That, and letting people leave poor countries for rich ones.

Can you really blame universities for charging high prices for football tickets when so many people are willing to pay for them?

Musk brings to the conversation a vision of changing how we get around, how we power what gets us around, and where we live. In so doing, he is working to address some of the most important challenges facing our species.

When the costs of risky behavior are reduced, people tend to increase the amount of risky behavior they engage in.

Limits to the homo economicus version of rationality are also limits to the explanatory power of some aspects of introductory-level economics. They do not, however, compromise the case for laissez-faire. If anything, they strengthen it.

This behavior means that even the greediest of businessman, to make money, has to identify with the needs and wants of others, put them in the shoes of others, and help solve problems.

Economics can be counterintuitive and abstract, but it is also essential for understanding how the world works—especially when we’re trying to make policies in the spirit of good intentions.

Adjusting for inflation, that a regular NES and 30 games would be about $2450 in 2015 dollars. And we can get all that today for $70. That’s a 97 percent price decrease without adjusting for quality

The law of demand still applies even to overrated musicals.