- Antitrust
- Banking
- Does capitalism cause depressions?
- How did the government cause the 2008 housing crisis and recession?
- How do government central banks create financial instability?
- How do banks operate under capitalism without a central bank?
- How does central banking promote booms and busts, moral hazard and financial instability?
- What is inflation?
- What is the solution to inflation?
- Capitalism
- Collectivism
- Competition
- Are competition and cooperation opposites?
- Do consumers have extra “consumer rights” in additional to individual rights?
- Do individuals lose their rights when they enter business?
- Doesn’t freedom of competition mean an “equal playing field”?
- How does one determine if a given action is anti-competitive or not?
- What is freedom of competition?
- What is the difference between competition under capitalism and competition under collectivist societies?
- What is the key to the success of capitalist competition?
- Corporation
- How are the laws governing corporations formed under capitalism?
- Isn’t a corporation a legal fiction created by government?
- Isn’t the right to form a corporation, a privilege that can be revoked at whim by the state?
- My concern, loudly echoed by anti-capitalists, is that to limit liability is to limit responsibility?
- What are the problems in the legal framework of today’s corporations?
- What is government’s role in regard to corporations?
- What is Insider Trading?
- What is the foundation of a corporation?
- What is the legal basis of a corporation under capitalism?
- Crime
- Can individuals use force in self-defense?
- Does a man who murders another man have a right to life?
- Don’t guns cause crime?
- In regard to the death penalty, how do we ensure that an innocent man is not murdered?
- Should drug dealers be executed?
- Under capitalism can the state prohibit the use of drugs?
- What is the danger of having a death penalty?
- What is the proper purpose of the death penalty?
- Culture
- Depressions
- Economics
- What are capital goods?
- What are savings?
- What is a business?
- What is a capitalist (entrepreneur)?
- What is a corporation?
- What is a free-market?
- What is a money price?
- What is a price?
- What is a value?
- What is barter?
- What is capital?
- What is consumption?
- What is economics?
- What is interest?
- What is limited liability?
- What is market competition?
- What is money?
- What is production?
- What is profit (and loss)?
- What is the division of labor?
- What is trade?
- What is wealth?
- Who is the economic actor?
- Education
- Has public education achieved the goal implied by its logic?
- How is education funded under capitalism?
- Is there a ‘right’ to a free education?
- What is the difference between private and public (state) schools?
- Isn’t education of the young the responsibility of the state?
- What are some political solutions for improving education?
- What is education?
- Ethics
- Isn’t capitalism justified by the fact it serves the “public good”?
- Under what doctrine does an ethical society operate?
- What are the benefits of living in society?
- What is a value?
- What is self-interest (egoism)?
- What is altruism?
- What is ethics?
- What is good and evil?
- What is the individual’s most important value?
- What is virtue?
- Where can I learn more about the moral basis of Capitalism?
- Why does a human being need a moral code?
- What is morality?
- Foreign Policy
- Free Trade
- Freedom
- Government
- Healthcare
- History
- Immigration
- Is immigration a right?
- Must not an immigrant speak a country’s official language?
- Should government conduct “ideological profiling” of immigrants?
- What about open borders versus closed borders?
- What is the government’s role regarding immigration and emigration under capitalism?
- Who is the burden of proof on – the immigrant or the government?
- Individualism
- Law
- What are checks and balances?
- What are the branches of the central (federal) government?
- What is a constitutional republic?
- What is a democracy?
- What is federalism?
- What is the separation of powers?
- What is the purpose of the constitution under capitalism?
- What is the purpose of the law under capitalism?
- Why is political power regulated?
- Lobbying
- What about the ‘public interest’?
- What is campaign finance reform?
- What is the cause of the buying and selling of favors?
- What is the essential argument made by advocates of campaign finance reform?
- What is the problem with these so-called ‘campaign finance reforms’?
- What is the solution to the buying and selling of political favors?
- Military
- Money
- Philosophy
- Poverty
- Profit
- Don’t laborers have a right to a share of the capitalist’s profits, in addition to their wages?
- Is there such a thing as an “excessive profit”?
- Isn’t the profit motive evil?
- What happens if a business attempts to charge higher prices than its competitors (“gouging”)?
- What happens if a business attempts to charge prices lower than his competitors (“dumping”)?
- What happens when a company starts to make a higher profit in its industry, in comparison to other industries?
- What is profit?
- What is the source of the capitalist’s profits?
- Regulation
- Does the government have any role in the market?
- Doesn’t capitalism destroy the environment?
- Doesn’t laissez-faire capitalism lead to unsafe products?
- How do statist regulators view the consumer?
- How would the free-market “regulate” safety and quality?
- Shouldn’t the government force private businesses to label what is done to the food they sell, such as if the food is genetically altered?
- Rights
- Taxation
- Unions
- Women