Ron Manners’ ideas 
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Articles: Economics

Let us seek understanding; never conformity!

When we feel uneasy about many of today’s questionable policies, it is often a challenge to know what questions we should be asking....

Common Sense in a Senseless World

Are you a fan of the quotations of Thomas Sowell? Here is your chance to meet the great man himself.

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Match this legacy!

Today marks the birthday of Leonard E. Read, founder of the Foundation for Economic Education and author of the iconic free-market essay I,...

Why you should download this free ebook!

Back in 2009 I published Heroic Misadventures: Australia, Four Decades, Full Circle in which I retold some of my experiences in the gold-mining industry...

Defending Competitive Capitalism

Recently I have been asked by two of our Mannkal Alumni almost identical questions covering the same difficulty of defending ‘free market capitalism’...

Get the economy moving again; you have to be joking!

Conflicts between government departments (federal, state and local) are as much a threat to each Australian’s prosperity, as is the Corona-Crisis itself. I...

Coronavirus Era – 8 Rules

Don’t get sick. You don’t want to be a burden on others, as they are already burdened by the fall-out from the current...

Ron Manners plays the long game

This review of Ron Manners’ The Lonely Libertarian was written by Benjamin Marks, and was originally published on his website Economics.org.au. Buy your...

Canberra’s Grasping Predators

On September 13, 1981 the Sunday Independent newspaper published an open letter from myself to then Federal Treasurer John Howard. My remarks were...

Berlin Wall: 30th anniversary after the fall

So much has been written in this past week regarding the Fall of the Wall, what else can I possibly add? Reading so...

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