Showing posts with label Bastiat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bastiat. Show all posts
Friday, November 29, 2024

TGIF: On Fairness

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Fairness and its synonyms are among the most abused words in English. By that I mean they are commonly manipulated for ideological ends. Wo...
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Friday, June 14, 2024

TGIF: "We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us"

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The famous line "We have met the enemy and he is us" is from Walt Kelly's comic strip, Pogo . Kelly adapted the line from a U....
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Tuesday, June 04, 2024

Democracy and Free Stuff

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Democracy: the matching up of people who want free stuff with politicians who promise free stuff. Problem: free stuff as they all imagine it...
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Wednesday, March 20, 2024

How Dare You Vote!

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If you have not mastered Frédéric Bastiat's "What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen," how dare you vote! How arrogant of you to pr...
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Friday, January 20, 2023

TGIF: The Economic Way of Thinking Can Save Lives

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Thomas Sowell The Cambridge economist Joan Robinson (1903-1983) wisely said, "The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set...
Friday, September 23, 2022

TGIF: Sam Harris on Saving Democracy from Voters

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Neuroscientist/philosopher Sam Harris caused quite a stir recently by defending the social networks' conspiracy (his word) to suppress n...
Friday, February 25, 2022

Ten Favorite Books

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Keith Knight, host of the Don't Tread on Anyone podcast, interviewed me about ten of my favorite books. 
Tuesday, February 08, 2022

Bastiat Foresees 1/6

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"As long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true purpose—that it may violate property instead of protecting it—the...
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Friday, October 09, 2020

TGIF: Is Socialism Good in Theory?

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This is an expanded version of something I wrote for The Freeman , October 2003, during my tenure as the editor. Socialism has been mortally...
Monday, September 17, 2018

Keith Knight Interviews Me

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Friday, March 09, 2018

TGIF: Trading Places

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"What protection teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war." --Henry Georg...
Friday, December 29, 2017

Make-Work Is Wasteful

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My final column for the American Institute for Economic Research is "Make-Work Is Wasteful."
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Friday, December 01, 2017

All Economies Are Service Economies

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My column "All Economies Are Service Economies" is posted at the American Institute for Economic Research.
Thursday, November 09, 2017

Free Markets Reduce Consumption Inequality

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My latest column for the American Institute for Economic Research is "Free Markets Reduce Consumption Inequality."
Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Storm Clouds and False Silver Linings

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Yet another column at the American Institute for Economic Research: "Storm Clouds and False Silver Linings."
Friday, July 14, 2017

TGIF: We Are the Economy They Want to Regulate

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Critics of the libertarian philosophy think they can score points by calling libertarians “market fundamentalists.” It’s supposed to conjure...
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Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Mandated Paid Family Leave Harms Its Intended Beneficiaries

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My latest article at the American Institute for Economic Research is "Mandated Paid Family Leave Harms Its Intended Beneficiaries....
Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Trump, Russia, and Business

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If Trump's business interests explain his nonbelligerence toward Russia, wouldn't that support the the pacifist case for free intern...
Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Things Frederic Bastiat Did Not Write (But Obviously Thought)

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1. Paris gets fed. 2. If goods don't cross borders soldiers will. (HT: David Hart of Liberty Fund)
Saturday, August 03, 2013

Bastiat and Subjective Marginal Utility

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Frederic Bastiat really was a precursor of the Austrian school.  Menger was indeed a revolutionary, but that does not mean that no one be...