Anti-Dismal

From the Adam Smith Institute comes The Real History of Communism . It delves into the complex history of communism and explores its resurg...

This week on The #GSPodcast Stephen Knight talks to Kristian Niemietz (@k_niemietz). Kristian is Head of Political Economy at IEA London a...

From AIERvideo comes this video on economic calculation under socialism. Let's assume socialist central planners have the best intent...

Stephen Kotkin talks about his new book Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 . In 1941, history’s largest, most horrific war ever broke o...

Peter Robinson at Uncommon Knowledge of the Hoover Institution interviews Stephen Kotkin about his book Joseph Stalin: Waiting For Hitler....

Peter Robinson at Uncommon Knowledge of the Hoover Institution interviews Stephen Kotkin about Joseph Stalin and collectivisation and the ...

This note is a brief explanation for comments I made in an interesting twitter exchange with @LewSOS. To start lets us define a socialist ...

you get paid in eggs! A Wall Street Journal report on the situation in Venezuela  tells us One U.S. dollar now fetches around 236,000 b...

Writing at the IEA blog Kristian Niemietz says, Now we’ve finally learned what went wrong in Venezuela: it wasn’t real socialism. At the...

Yes that is a serious question. Brendan O’Neill (Editor of Spiked Online) joins Dave to discuss why he defines himself as a ‘Marxist Li...

To appreciate why market prices are essential to human well-being, consider what a fix we would be in without them. Suppose you were the...

you get these kind of things happening, In a hastily organized plebiscite on July 16, held under the auspices of the opposition-controlle...

You can be forgiven for thinking that most authors of novels are supports of some form or another of socialism. But not all authors are mind...

Economist Casey B. Mulligan went to Cuba and earlier in the year posted some observations on his trip: On boats: Government permission ...

John E. Roemer recently published a paper in Analyse & Kritik on "Thoughts on Arrangements of Property Rights in Productive Assets...