Our thesis is that the reason many of us today are inclined toward socialism (explicit cooperation) and against laissez-faire capitalism (implicit cooperation) is because the first type of behavior was much more genetically beneficial during previous generations of our species. There is,...

Freeman criticizes the economics profession on the ground that it has improperly accepted the philosophy of laissez‐faire capitalism in five different realms: economic development, unionism and minimum wage laws, socialist central planning versus decentralized markets, military dictatorships...

There is no doubt that at least in some sense, there is it love - hate relationship between Jews and Capitalism. On the one hand, there is a strong tradition of support for socialism, communism, labor unionism, feminism, and affirmative action within the Jewish community. Names such as Karl...

We argue in this paper that the last best hope for economic prosperity is a system based on private property rights, capitalism and limited government. One of the reasons for this claim is that, in such a system, in contrast to one in which the state plays a large role, when mistakes are made,...