This article argues a new approach to immigration in that visas should not be allocated based on arbitrary political criteria but instead through the price system.

The authors assess the impact of two groups of economists; mainline economists who regard economics primarily as the science of exchange and mainstream economists who perceive economics primarily as the science of choice.

This paper explores the rise of the fiscal state in the early modern period and its impact on legal capacity. To measure legal capacity, we establish that witchcraft trials were more likely to take place where the central state had weak legal institutions. Further historical evidence supports our hypothesis that higher taxes led to better legal institutions.

The term “tax state” originated in a controversy between Rudolf Goldscheid and Joseph Schumpeter over the treatment of Austria's public debt in the aftermath of World War I and the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. This essay explains that Goldscheid's analysis was more on the mark than Schumpeter's, and does so by exploring the logic of interaction between carriers of distinct forms of property-based action: one form is private property; the other form is common or collective property.