Monthly Archives: February 2010

How Property Rights Saved Chile And Destroyed Haiti [Updated]

The Destruction

Rarely do I really sit down and watch “the news”, preferring, instead to find my news online and research topics I find of interest. However, when I do watch television, I prefer to watch Fox News for apolitical news stories. Today, though, in the aftermath of the 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Chile, many of [...]

Instinctive Economics

The subject of greed and profit has always been a very politically polarizing topic, with the left seeing profit as inherently evil and the right, while not perfect, seeing profit as a more acceptable showcase of success. From the Austrian perspective, profit is the side effect of providing a good or service that has more [...]