Sparks Commentary

So I recently finished an audiobook about Léon Walras (pronounced “Valras”), a  French  economist who was alive from the years 1834 to 1910...

So I recently finished listening to an audiobook about the American economist  Frank Knight , who lived from 1885 to 1972. It was just call...

So I recently finished listening to an economics audiobook about Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich von Hayek . It was called “The Austrian Cas...

I recently finished listening to an audiobook called “Monetarism and Supply Side Economics.” In a way, it was almost like two audiobooks tha...

So I recently finished an audiobook about  Alfred Marshall , a British economist who lived from 1842 to 1924. This audiobook was called “Al...

“The statesman, who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself ...

So I recently finished an audiobook about “Early Austrian Economics,” about the famous Austrian School in the  late-nineteenth  and  early-...

I recently finished listening to an audiobook about the Austrian economist  Joseph Schumpeter , who lived from 1883 to 1950. He eventually e...

“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own inter...

You're applying for a dream job at a particular organization. You “just know” that this occupation is right for you – or, at least, th...

“[The Congress shall have the power] To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inv...

One day, a man named Bob goes to the store to buy some milk for his family. Since the price is only $2.00 per gallon that day, he decides ...

One of the basic facts about China today is that most of it is communist - the part that most of us hear about. Thus, it surprises some p...

Americans have rightly been interested in their own country's history for a long time - both for the moving stories it contains, and ...

"The distinguishing feature of Communism is not the abolition of property generally, but the abolition of bourgeois property. But mod...

"Competition engenders misery, it foments civil war, it 'changes natural zones,' mixes up nationalities, causes trouble in fa...

I  posted earlier that one of the most sacred tenets of liberalism is the goal of equality of condition: the idea that there should be no...

One of the most sacred tenets of liberalism is the goal of equality of condition: the idea that there should be no rich or poor, but that ...

Karl Marx, the chief founder of communism Does communism cause poverty? And how can this be tested? Karl Marx What counts as...

" ... every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally, indeed, neit...