Jim Powell

Jim Powell (?-) is an American writer, historian, and lecturer. He is most well known for nonfiction books about this history of liberty and free markets. He is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C.


Economic planning on a national scale in a politically free society involves contradictions that cannot be resolved in practice.

Union bosses talked about securing the 'right to strike,' but they didn't mean the right to quit, which everybody already had. In practice, the 'right to strike' meant the right to forcibly prevent others from filling jobs that strikers had left.

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.