Showing posts with label economic freedom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label economic freedom. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 17, 2017

The United States Again Fails to Make the Top 10 Freest Countries

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My latest column for the American Institute for Economic Research is "The United States Again Fails to Make the Top 10 Freest Countries...
Sunday, June 10, 2012

Latest Scribblings

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TGIF: There’s No Such Thing as Economic Freedom Op-ed: The Wisconsin Union Fight Reconsidered
Friday, October 29, 2010

TGIF: Is Freedom a Radical Idea?

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Throughout history, and with only the rarest of exceptions, freedom has been far removed from the center of political events — even during ...
Monday, June 08, 2009

Kirzner Speaks

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Israel Kirzner, the eminent economist of the Austrian school, speaks about the morality of markets. Beyond Efficiency from FEE on Vimeo .
Saturday, January 24, 2009

Question

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If people can't be trusted with freedom, how can they be trusted with power?
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Saturday, November 08, 2008

Humility or Hubris?

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Another presidential election has come and gone, only this time the results are astoundingly and, yes, satisfyingly historic. In light of ou...
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Friday, October 10, 2008

Theory and Crisis

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What might be even more distressing than the current buildup of the corporate state in response to the supposed economic crisis is the way s...
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Friday, March 28, 2008

Bailout Hypocrisy

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Thud . That was the sound of the other shoe dropping. In response to severe problems in the credit markets, thanks to years of government ...
Saturday, March 15, 2008

Latest Writings

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I've been reading the news about soon-to-be-ex-New York Governor Eliot Spitzer with mixed feelings. Yes, mixed. On the one hand, there i...
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Saturday, March 08, 2008

A Little Symmetry

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Whenever some spectacular example of corruption or incompetence occurs in the more-or-less private sector, the usual cast of government enth...
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Friday, February 29, 2008

Health-Care Cons

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The economist Joan Robinson (1903-1983) wrote, "The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of readymade answers to econo...
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Thursday, January 31, 2008

Political Stimulus

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Not understanding basic economics is dangerous because you’re vulnerable to political con games foisted by unscrupulous politicians. Econom...
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Catching Up

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I've been on the road and Free Association is one of the things I've neglected. Here's an attempt to catch up: "It's l...
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Saturday, November 17, 2007

Individualism, Collectivism, and Other Murky Labels

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Imagine the following person. He believes all individuals should be free to do "anything that's peaceful" and therefore favors...
Sunday, November 04, 2007

Virtue versus Legal Obligation

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Michael Gerson, a former speechwriter and policy adviser to President George W. Bush, is the latest in a long line of political writers who...
Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Naomi Klein: Free-Market Ally?

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I haven't read Naomi Klein's book The Shock Treatment: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (or her other books). But based on what I...
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Friday, October 12, 2007

Atlas Shrugged and the Corporate State

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This week marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Ayn Rand's stunning novel, Atlas Shrugged . So many words have be...
Wednesday, October 10, 2007

The Freeman, October 2007

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There is lots of good stuff in this issue, but I particularly want to draw attention to Frank van Dun's article, "Can We Be Free If...
Sunday, October 07, 2007

Government Failure

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A popular academic rationalization for having government forcibly override people's economic decisions is the theory of market failure. ...
Thursday, September 13, 2007

Libertarianism: Left or Right?

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Is libertarianism of the Left or of the Right? We often avoid this question with a resounding “Neither!” Given how these terms are used toda...
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