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Machiavelli Is Dead: Why Politics Without Property Rights, Rules, and Moral Limits Cannot Work

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Modern political economy is based upon a Machiavellian belief in might makes right. Yet, political power cannot accomplish what free markets and private property rights have done in lifting billions of people out of poverty.

Original article: https://mises.org/mises-wire/machiavelli-dead-why-politics-without-property-rights-rules-and-moral-limits-cannot-work

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Machiavelli Is Dead: Why Politics Without Property Rights, Rules, and Moral Limits Cannot Work

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