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The following material is a translation of an article published on August 1, 1981 with the original title "What Causes Wealth?" by Roger Ream. The subtitles and formatting are by the translator. The original article can be found on the FEE website. The current translation is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license …

Continued from Part I Continuing our discussion of the denial of personal freedom, we will examine how shifting responsibility to poorly functioning institutions pre-emptively limits our economic freedom. 2) The government and its ministries, agencies, and supporting institutions must ensure that every individual dream and …

The lack of a moral compass is a correctable evil. The ability of a person to develop and make mistakes, without this being accepted as his only and final state, helps us develop as people and as individuals. However, in order to continue to develop, we must take on …

Author: Hans-Hermann Hoppe The original text in English can be found here. One of the most widely accepted statements among political economists is the following: every monopoly is bad from the consumer's point of view. Monopoly in its classical meaning is the right of exclusive privilege granted to one producer of a good or service, i.e. the absence of free …

Anyone who has been interested in the history of Bulgarian art knows that the years of the totalitarian communist regime are those in which art was most centralized, controlled and limited artists within certain limits. The period from 1944 to 1989 (very roughly, since things are a little more complicated) are years in which …

This text is a translation of the article “The problem of corruption” published on Mises.org more than 16 years ago. This translation is provoked by the unwillingness to accept the thesis that the quality of the state is solely a consequence of what the people in the country in question are like. This would, for me, …

Very often, when a given object from the cultural and historical heritage of Bulgaria – and around the world – is in some unenviable condition, the reactions are that “the state should take care of it.” Care, of course, must be there, but the fact that state care is expected is no guarantee of quality. If the object is …

Author: Alexander Mihaylov Let's imagine for a moment that I am a senior civil servant, in some state agency I am the deputy assistant director. My position puts me in a position in which I have access to the levers of power through which I can do someone a favor, in order to …

Author: Georgi Georgiev History of the development of the right to freedom of expression, the right to free speech and free press and media. The article is divided into several main sections and follows a chronological order of presentation, namely: Definition of Freedom of Speech and Press and legal framework Freedom of speech and …

"Taxes are theft." You may have heard similar statements made or shared by your libertarian (or classical liberal) acquaintances. Is there any logic behind this statement, though, or is it just another hollow political slogan? Let's start with a thought experiment. If a robber threatened you with a gun...