Steven Horwitz

A just society requires just institutions.

The key to thinking like an economist is to ask: Is it worth it? As compared to what?

Remembering an “extraordinarily earnest” musician who believed in striving for excellence.

Advertising alerts consumers to the existence of options they didn’t know they had.

Taxing private wealth isn’t putting idle resources to use; it’s uprooting resources already being put to productive ends in the economy.

The principles of sound economic analysis shouldn’t be tossed out the window when they’re politically inconvenient.

When dire emergencies loom, like catastrophic hurricanes, price controls do everything but help alleviate the situation.

There are two sides to every economic exchange, and regulations that affect one necessarily affect the other.

The economic fallacies tackled here are the zero sum game, that order requires design, & that consumption is the key to growth.

Horwitz outlines his editorial vision for economics content on Lib​er​tar​i​an​ism​.org.

Democratic socialism isn’t the same as autocratic communism, but there are problems with socialism that democracy can’t solve.

Pining for a golden age of liberty that never existed is analytically and rhetorically disastrous.

Horwitz remembers the life and thought of Leland Yeager (November 4, 1924 – April 23, 2018).

Advocates of “socialism” must express their support for a set of institutions, not a set of desired outcomes.

Parental leave policies, like many government mandates, often fail to produce the good outcomes hoped for or even have negative unintended consequences.