This issue documents the expanding governmental assault on private property, from asset forfeiture to intrusive regulations. Authors critique bureaucratic incentives, explore the fear of individualism, and analyze how government outlaws voluntary cooperation between labor and management. The issue also highlights consumer ethics, the value of competition in unexpected places, and a debate between Milton Friedman and Gary North on school vouchers.

This issue examines the failures of industrial policy, the utopian roots of national-service schemes, and the inherent tendency of bureaucracies to expand. Essays challenge popular misconceptions about overconsumption, argue for the benefits of human variation, and critique paternalistic health and fitness initiatives. Other contributors warn how high taxes suppress initiative and explore the cultural dynamics that shape race, family, and civic responsibility.

This issue challenges the political foundations of modern environmentalism and argues that markets and property rights offer superior environmental stewardship. Articles debunk overpopulation fears, critique wetlands regulation, and examine the failures of bureaucratic water management. Additional essays defend billboard advertising, explore sustainable development, and assess the public-interest claims of the Rural Electrification Administration.

This issue launches an eight-part series on the economic way of thinking, beginning with foundational principles that illuminate why regulation fails and markets succeed. Authors examine free banking, the shift toward a cashless economy, and the unseen costs that make free markets difficult to defend publicly. Other essays address immigration, job creation myths, ethical responsibility in a free society, and a tribute to longtime Freeman contributor Edmund Opitz.

This issue challenges common myths about capitalism, health care, minimum-wage laws, and public education, arguing that political interventions consistently distort incentives and harm the very people they claim to help. Essays examine how government planning undermines consumer freedom, how coercive schooling crowds out responsibility, and why public welfare programs fail compared to voluntary action. Additional pieces explore constitutional limits on federal power, the moral consequences of rent control, and the benefits of a decentralized economy.

This issue explores the foundations of the free-market system, the failures of centralized educational ideology, and the case for a competitive, voluntary approach to higher learning. Articles highlight forgotten champions of liberty, the pitfalls of macroeconomic aggregation, and the ways individuals learn economic principles through everyday experience. Additional essays examine dependency on the state, historical approaches to poverty relief, and new works on Western civilization, compassion, and the economics of progress.

This issue examines the erosion of individual responsibility, the corrosive effects of dependency, and the moral foundations required for a free society. Articles critique coercive public policy, expose the unintended consequences of regulatory “solutions,” and explore how voluntary action and market incentives outperform state intervention. Additional essays address education, constitutional limits, environmental myths, and the cultural roots of economic liberty.

This issue explores the role of incentives in economic life, the strengths of America’s pharmaceutical industry, and the environmental implications of free trade in the wake of NAFTA. Authors analyze the discriminatory impact of the Davis-Bacon Act, the economic distortions caused by federal transit subsidies, and the historical success of private-toll-road entrepreneurship. Additional essays discuss global human rights, the civic role of jury nullification, workplace regulation, school violence, asbestos hysteria, and recent scholarly contributions in political economy.

This issue reflects on historical lessons, the cultural impact of interventionism, and the economic logic behind opportunity cost and money demand. Articles explore slavery in colonial Virginia, the true burden of federal taxation, and how redistribution harms the poor it claims to help. Additional essays highlight entrepreneurship, fear-driven policy errors, labor rights, supply-side economics, gang-culture alternatives, and the defense of free expression.

This issue examines the realities of economic uncertainty, the roots of war when free trade breaks down, and the promise of a free-market university in Guatemala. Additional articles analyze the economics of public transit subsidies, the logic of public property, labor-market claims, airline antitrust decisions, and the failures of Social Security and welfare-state ideology. The issue concludes with discussions of government-created poverty, constitutional reform in Eastern Europe, women’s economic opportunities, egalitarian fallacies, and the political misuse of statistics.

This issue examines medical care before the welfare state, the knowledge problem as applied to feminism, and new challenges in airline competition. Authors critique paternalism, central planning, environmental overreach, and the lingering trauma of post-communist societies. Additional pieces address lending discrimination, economic reasoning, property rights, and the moral dimension of unintended regulatory consequences.

This issue argues that capitalism improves the environment, that government worsens natural disasters, and that political labels like “fascist” obscure deeper economic truths. Essays challenge antitrust policy, defend educational tax deductions, and expose the moral hazard created by government intervention. Additional articles explore democracy’s limits, individualism, political correctness, and the enduring value of economic literacy.