Agreeing With Statists For The Wrong Reasons: Minimum Wage
Since its first enactment in New Zealand in 1894[1], minimum wage laws have interfered with the market process of determining the price of labor. Such laws now exist in most countries. Proponents claim...
View ArticleDealing With Doxxing
The revelation of clandestine personal information has occurred for as long as clandestine personal information has existed. This has been practiced throughout human history as intelligence gathering...
View ArticleBook Review: The New Wealth of Nations
The New Wealth of Nations is a book about the decline of world poverty by Indian economist Surjit S. Bhalla. The book explores the role of education in bringing this about, the failures of current...
View ArticleBook Review: One Nation Under Gold
One Nation Under Gold is a book about the role of gold in American economic history by James Ledbetter. The book details how gold has shaped the American psyche and played a role in many debates and...
View ArticleWhat’s In A Name?
When I launched Zeroth Position in January 2016, I wrote an article explaining the name of the site. What I have not done until now is to write an article explaining the pen name I use here. The...
View ArticleAgreeing With Statists For The Wrong Reasons: Universal Basic Income
<<<Episode VI Episode VIII>>> A Universal Basic Income (UBI), also known as Citizen’s...
View ArticleA Libertarian Reactionary View of Tariffs, Part I
One of the most important aspects of governance is trade policy, for it is part of both domestic and foreign policy. Without a proper understanding of the tools available to a sovereign, it is...
View ArticleGun Control Horrorism
In recent weeks, there have been several high-profile mass shootings in the United States. In Gilroy, Calif., on July 28, 2019, a man killed four and wounded 13 at the Gilroy Garlic Festival before...
View ArticleOn Libertarianism and Pandemics
The Wēnyì (Chinese: 瘟疫; plague, pestilence, epidemic, murrain) of 2019–20 has subjected the ruling regimes of the world to a test that they have not faced in a century. City-wide lockdowns have been...
View ArticleThe Not-So-Current Year: 2020 In Review
Though the specific demarcation of the passage from one year into another is a rather arbitrary social construct, it does provide a useful annual period for self-examination and remembrance. Now that...
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