Milton Friedman and the Chicago School of Economics

DECEMBER 01, 2006 by RICHARD EBELING

The Trade Deficit Is Debt? It Just Ain't So!

DECEMBER 01, 2006 by DONALD BOUDREAUX

Psychiatry: A Branch of the Law

DECEMBER 01, 2006 by THOMAS S. SZASZ

Economists Against Economics

NOVEMBER 03, 2006 by SHELDON RICHMAN

Five economists who either won the Nobel Prize in economics or who served as president of the American Economic Association -- and three who did both -- recently joined over 600 other economists in urging the federal government to increase the minimum wage. The signatures were gathered by the union-backed Economic Policy Institute (EPI), which unsurprisingly supports substantial government intervention in the economy.

I guess this is supposed to make us think more of the minimum wage. Instead, it makes me think less of the Nobel Prize in economics and the American Economic Association. More . . .

A NEW article by Sheldon Richman

Your Money and Your Life: The Price of Universal Health Care

DECEMBER 01, 2006 by JANE M. ORIENT M.D.

Was Dickens Really a Socialist?

DECEMBER 01, 2006 by WILLIAM E. PIKE

A Government Program for All

DECEMBER 01, 2006 by PAUL CWIK

Milton Friedman (1912-2006)

DECEMBER 01, 2006 by RICHARD EBELING, SHELDON RICHMAN

Book Reviews - December 2006

DECEMBER 01, 2006 by GEORGE C. LEEF

• The Ethics of the Market
  by John Meadowcroft Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
• Peddling Panaceas: Popular Economists _in the New Deal Era
  by Gary Dean Best Reviewed by Burton Folsom, Jr
• Philosophers of Capitalism: _Menger, Mises, Rand, and Beyond
  by Edward W. Younkins Reviewed by Aeon J. Skoble
• Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in _Black America
  by John McWhorter Reviewed by George C. Leef