Price Rise in Ram’s India- A fractured dream of Utopia
By Ayushi Singh Source: New Indian Express “Pump prices of petrol and diesel have reached historical highs,” -Shaktikant Das (RBI Governor) noted in the Monetary Policy Committee. Remember when in 2012, Narendra Modi raised questions on the then incumbent regime on the hike of
Rothbard’s Underappreciated Contributions to Public Goods Analysis
One of the primary justifications given for state provision of a good or service is that it is a “public good,” meaning that it is sufficiently costly to exclude nonpayers from enjoying the good and that one person’s enjoyment of
The Economics and Ethics of Government Default, Part II
The Nature of Government Debt People holding public debt will list such debt among their assets, alongside other financial assets. The public debt, thus, at first glance looks like it is part of people’s capital invested in productive endeavors, and from
The Special Understanding of Entrepreneurship by Americans of the Austrian School
Austrian economics has always been on the leading edge of innovative thinking applicable to business. Back in the last century, there was a group of American economists of the Austrian school who greatly advanced theories related to subjectivism; that is, the
The Plague of Caste in Menstruation
“Pollution may be temporary or permanent, voluntary or involuntary and may fall on any member of the society. The first and the later menstruations as well as delivery are periods of specifically female pollution (even though women’s impurities may spread
THE IMBALANCE OF NUCLEAR POWER INSTIGATES SURVIVAL MODE
The Non-proliferation treaty (NPT), having 187 signatory countries, was created to prevent new nuclear states from emerging. Its objective is to promote cooperation in the peaceful use of nuclear energy and, to work towards nuclear disarmament. The Non-Proliferation Treaty has
The New Deal and Recovery, Part 11: The Roosevelt Recession, Continued
"Massive jolts of New Deal spending had stopped the economic slide, [but the economy crashed again when] over two years, FDR slashed government spending 17 percent." (From a 2011 NPR presentation.) In the last installment of this series, I discussed
ACB’s Betrayal of Trump Continues the Red Pilling of Conservative America
The refusal of the SCOTUS to consider the merits of a case concerning 2020 election laws is the sort of behavior that we have come to expect from spineless politicians, and that is what you find on America's highest court—politicians
Memories of Murray on His Ninety-Fifth Birthday
I first met Murray Rothbard when, as treasurer of the New Jersey Libertarian Party, I invited him to give the keynote address at our inaugural convention. He graciously agreed to do it for the paltry sum of $75 plus a
Murray Rothbard on War and “Isolationism”
[These edited extracts, from an interview in the February 1973 issue of Reason magazine, first ran in the June 1999 issue of the Rothbard-Rockwell Report.] Q: Why, in your view, is isolationism an essential tenet of libertarian foreign policy? A: The libertarian position, generally, is to