Rollback

Thomas Woods: Rollback
here are the kinds of things you can expect to find in it:

• Could we survive without the welfare state?
• Was the Industrial Revolution a disaster for workers, and evidence of the wickedness of the free market?
• The market vs. global poverty
• How the market, in spite (not because) of government, leads to higher living standards for everyone
• How the market leads to improved working conditions and does away with child labor
• Federal education programs: a critique
• Doesn’t Sweden prove a large welfare state is compatible with lasting prosperity?
• If government shrinks, won’t big business fill the void and oppress the public via predatory pricing?
• Why it’s impossible to design a wealth redistribution program that does not cause net harm
• The truth about “affordable housing” programs
• Iceland and the financial crisis: a case study of free markets run amok?
• California energy “deregulation” – proof that free markets don’t work?
• Is the Savings & Loan (S&L) crisis evidence of the failure of free markets?
• The real record of Sarbanes-Oxley
• OSHA and workplace safety
• The FDA
• Don’t we need to make an exception for government science funding?
• A primer on the War on Drugs
• Obamacare: the problems and the solutionWhy “stimulus” programs make things worse
• How prudential regulation contributed to the financial crisis
• Are some firms “too big to fail”?
• The real story of “deregulation” and the financial crisis
• Is Paul Krugman right to absolve Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac of blame?
• The military-industrial complex and the U.S. economy
• Has the Federal Reserve really made the U.S. economy more stable, as so many proponents try to claim?
• What caused the bank panics of the nineteenth century? Are they evidence of the need for a central bank?
• The separation of money and state
• Do we need the Fed to protect us from deflation?
• Regulation as an anti-competitive device
• Possible approaches: agorism, jury nullification, Free State Project, and more