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As somebody interested in the relationship between personal liberty and social and economic equity, I'm attracted to the Austrian School as a group of thinkers that seem to take these issues seriously and place them at the centre of their thought. However, I'm continually disturbed by what seems...
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Advertising receives a lot of criticism. So I decided to put down my thoughts. Below is a fictional conversation that tries to get my views across: Don't you hate how these big corporations make us buy their junk? What do you mean by "make us"? You know, they make us buy through advertising...
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It's very common to hear something like the following: "How can someone like Adam Sandler make $20 million per movie, while a teacher makes a pittance?" This is usually followed by a declaration on how everyone's priorities are messed up, and how (somehow) Capitalism is to blame? Today...
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From NoState [quote]Dear readers, At the risk of a bit of self-promotion, well, here I am self-promoting a bit. I’m very pleased to announce the unveiling of the English version of Cena Štátu , The Price of the State . The website is an overview of the cost of the Slovak state, broken...
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"No, we don't live in a purely capitalistic system. A purely capitalistic system is inherently doomed to self-destruction. See: A perfect capitalism: no monopolies, no unions, no special advantages. Every commodity sells at its true value (value is the amount of labor it takes to make a commodity...
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I tried posting a few things on democrats.com and I kept getting some insane responses from some Jim guy. Take a look, its pretty amusing. http://www.democrats.com/2-economy-questions-are-too-many-for-the-mba-president http://www.democrats.com/node/17213 http://www.democrats.com/node/15425
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Greetings. I have made a video which you might enjoy and which has been entered in the Today.com video contest. “ Why Young People Should Become Free-Market Activists ”: http://www.today.com/video/view/why-young-people-should-become-free-market-activists/play-612/ This video is intended to...
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My apologies if this has been posted onsite elsewhere, I looked, and didn't see anything. I found this article to be very interesting. Bread riots? In a supposedly modern Arab country? Amazing. http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0606/p04s05-wome.html Wow, and government interference hasn't solved...
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Hey guys I am new here, currently a student of Economics in England, just taking a break at the moment from the propoganda which is my macroeconomics textbook. What state/country do you think has the nearest thing to a complete free market? I would say Hong Kong, as the government says that it encourages...
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Since the only stocks that are traded on the stock market are those of corporations and under anarcho-capitalism a corporation would not exist how would a stock market work under those circumstances? Would there or could there even be a stock market?