There Are No Flights To Jupiter: Market Failure?
"The discovery of error after exchange is crucial for the advancement of society.". Is it a coincidence that the most "intervened" sectors of the economy by Government -- Health Care, Education, Transportation, Agriculture -- are also the the most criticised for failure?
If you, or someone you know, complains about how "someone ought'a do something" about some segment of the marketplace, refer them to this fine article. As long as they can hold their attention to something 6 paragraphs long containing only one picture (and no hand-puppets), they should find themselves wiser (and wealthier) for their investment:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lora/m.lora52.html
Another wonderful article, detailing the perpetual welfare-warfare state championed by the liberal-conservative hegemony:
... The great Moloch government, once confined and cabined, has burst its feeble bonds to dominate us all.
The basic reason for this development is not difficult to fathom. It was best summed up by the great German sociologist Franz Oppenheimer; Oppenheimer wrote that there were fundamentally two, and only two, paths to the acquisition of wealth. One route is the production of a good or service and its voluntary exchange for the goods or services produced by others. This method – the method of the free market – Oppenheimer termed "the economic means" to wealth. The other path, which avoids the necessity for production and exchange, is for one or more persons to seize other people's products by the use of physical force. This method of robbing the fruits of another man's production was shrewdly named by Oppenheimer the "political means."...