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The key ideas of libertarianism have been developing for many centuries. The first hints of them can be found in ancient China, Greece, and Israel; they began to develop into something resembling modern libertarian philosophy in the work of thinkers such as John Locke, David Hume, Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson...

Author: David Friedman, translation of an excerpt from "The Machinery of Freedom" The concept of property is of fundamental importance to our society and probably to any functional society. On an operational level, it is understandable to any child over the age of three. On an intellectual level, however, almost no one …

/Part 1 – The Free Market/ Throughout human history, politicians, philosophers and economists from all over the world have been searching for a formula for government that would make people richer. Historically, countless different approaches have been tried. Empirically, however, it has been proven that only those political ideologies and economic theories that promote the philosophy …

Evgeni Dainov, one of the most famous public intellectuals in Bulgaria, published an article a few days ago about the "economists". A text in which he criticizes at length what he describes as the "economic" way of thinking. As someone who considers himself an economist, I was of course intrigued, but unfortunately I was left extremely disappointed...

Or how foundations or other non-governmental organizations take care of cultural heritage around the world without government subsidies. Capitalism and the free market often receive criticism for topics related to products or activities that would not generate profit on their own, i.e. they cannot exist limited to their own budgets with their own …

Photography is one of those strange creations of human culture that is difficult to fit into strictly established frameworks. It can be both art and science, used for entertainment, advertising and what not. We are so used to it - and at the same time we are ...

Author: Stefan Kichev Recently, in Western societies, and in our country as well, we often hear about the low and vulgar nature of "consumerism" - of consumer culture - how this quasi-philosophy makes us abandon the important things in life, and on the other hand, lures us to consider everything ...

Author: Alexander Mihaylov I recently came across an article on the website "Barricade" entitled "Why Capitalism Creates Meaningless Jobs". The author of the article believes that people are still not completely freed from the need to work, not for anything else, but because the corporate elites who actually rule us cannot ...

Adam Ozimek The second film in Disney's Star Wars series isn't perfect, but it succeeds on many levels that George Lucas' second trilogy (Episodes I, II, and III) didn't. For the second time, Star Wars gives us a reason to celebrate the profit motive of a greedy corporation, …

Türker Mollahasan At the end of last year, on the air of BTV, the lecturer of civil law at Sofia University, Kristian Takov, announced that the solution for the Bulgarian judicial system is the privatization of the prosecutor's office. We are publishing a short commentary on the topic. What is Takov's idea? The idea of Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kristian Takov (Chairman of the Arbitration …