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"Aye, free! Free as a tethered ass!" —W.S. Gilbert

"All the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and . . . the State should be abolished." —Benjamin Tucker

"You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself." —James Madison

"Fat chance." —Sheldon Richman

Showing posts with label Bureaucracy. Show all posts

Friday, January 10, 2025

TGIF: Efficient Bureaucracy?

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With all the talk about government efficiency, it would be useful to remind ourselves why bureaucracies differ radically from for-profit bus...

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Friday, December 13, 2024

More Mises on the Market

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"The capitalists, the enterprisers, and the farmers are instrumental in the conduct of economic affairs. They are at the helm and steer...

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Friday, January 13, 2023

TGIF: Where the Socialists Go Wrong

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Since socialism is "in" today -- even though many people who say they favor it have no idea what it is -- F. A. Hayek's last b...

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Friday, October 14, 2022

TGIF: Governments Create Problems; Markets Fix Them

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My article "Complete Liberalism" prompted an unexpected challenge. An interlocutor, who says he owns a business and thus is not a...

Friday, July 29, 2016

Does Trump Know Anything?

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If Trump really wanted to run the government like a business, he'd have to abolish taxation and offer government's purported service...

Friday, November 18, 2011

TGIF: Putting Bureaucracy First: Rachel Maddow’s Progressivism

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Today’s TGIF examines the political thought of the likes of Rachel Maddow: Progressives today say people should come before profits. Now i...

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Sheldon Richman: Father, grandfather, writer, editor, pipe smoker, free thinker, libertarian market anarchist, grouser, flosser. Author of six books, including "America's Counter-Revolution: The Constitution Reconsidered"; "Coming to Palestine"; and "What Social Animals Owe to Each Other."

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