Politically incorrect guide

What is "the free market," anyway? -- The worst economic idea in the world -- The nirvana fallacy in economics (or, how to attack a straw-man argument) -- Bees, keys, and externalities -- Pollution: is capitalism the cause -- or the cure? -- The "free-rider" fallacy -- Un-natural monopolies -- Asymmetric (backwards) economics -- Creating monopoly with regulation -- The econonomics of government failure -- Who creates jobs? (and who destroys them?) -- The Fed: government's boom-and-bust machine -- The root of all evil -- "Trade agreements" are not free trade -- Socialism (or how to destroy an economy, impoverish people, and deprive them of their freedoms)

Thomas J. DiLorenzo presents an irreverent but clear-eyed explanation of how markets and economies work and how government intervention so often doesn't, routinely makes things worse, and how it's usually the cause of economic crises in the first place