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This article aims to provide a general introduction to Austrian economics. We will focus the majority of our attention on the epistemological foundations of the science. We will also look at some specific key ideas that will allow you actually start performing real world analysis.Unfortunately, I simply can not cover e

After the Welfare State is a small little collection of essays from various authors that takes a look at some of the failings of the welfare state, its history, what came before and what can come after. I became interested in this book after I critiqued The Nanny State Made Me by Stuart Maconie. In there I offered some

Since 1945 the British state is a welfare state. It is one of the largest welfare states in the world. Despite Mrs. Thatcher and a decade of "Tory Austerity" the British state remains huge. According to the Office of National Statistics, there are some 32.5 million people working in the UK – of them 5.72 mi

I recently read The Bourgeois Virtues by Deirdre McCloskey. This is the first work of her Bourgeois series, that I hope to read and write about over the coming year. The scope of her work is vast and I certainly can not do the work full justice here. I will say that it was an excellent read and I strongly suggest it. T