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The war in Ukraine is approaching its fourth year, with an enormous toll in human lives and resources. Western allies have gradually allowed Ukraine to deploy modern missile technology across the Russian border. While this escalation has inflicted damage on Russia, it appears to be too little, too late. However, it might pressure Moscow to […]

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The recent G20 meeting took place in Brazil, bringing together the heads of state and government from the world’s 20 leading economies. In a pompous and undeserved manner, the final declaration – the only official outcome of these extremely expensive meetings – begins with, “We, the Leaders.” These so-called “leaders,” whether democratic, authoritarian, Marxist or […]

Book Alert: London, Palgrave-Macmillan 2024. Palgrave Studies in Austrian Economics (PSAE) Restoring Science and the Rule of Law by Michael Esfeld and Cristian Lopez (University of Lausanne)   A prosperity-bearing track Romantic historians in the nineteenth century were keen to claim that Modernity had tainted (if not perverted) centuries of pure innocence, innate God-shaped goodness, […]

  A country with a unique record of poor policies revealing the damaging effects of price controls has just demonstrated how effective their removal can be. In 2020, the Argentine Congress passed a new rent regulation, promoted by Representative Daniel Lipovetzky (Cambiemos). The “Lipovetzky Law” introduced three major features: it extended the minimum lease term from […]