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- 2009
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Hans-Hermann Hoppe
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It’s true that the US health-care system is a mess, but this demonstrates not market but government failure. To cure the problem requires not different or more government regulations and bureaucracies, writes Hans-Hermann Hoppe. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Floy
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Stephan Kinsella
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Like many libertarians, I initially assumed intellectual property (IP) was a legitimate type of property right. But I had misgivings from the start: there was just something too utilitarian and results oriented in Rand’s purportedly principled case for IP, and something too artificial about the state’s copyright and patent statutory
Mises Daily
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Stephan Kinsella
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“Calls for abolition of the patent system — especially those coming from a principled, rights-based approach — are very unlikely to be adopted at the present time.” [This paper is the first of a two-part series. The concluding article is “ Reducing the Cost of IP Law “] Hardly a day passes when we do not hear of one patent abuse or another. [1]
Mises Daily
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Gregory Bresiger
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One of the projects that President Obama’s close to trillion dollar stimulus package is designed to pay for will be a much delayed subway line in New York City. The line has been authorized and paid for by taxpayers time and again through bond issues and federal aid over more than 60 years. Yet the line is years away because of cost overruns and
Mises Daily
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Chris Brown
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One of the most harmful of Barack Obama’s public-private partnerships (PPPs) has to do with his support of entrepreneurship in an attempt to “spur job growth.” I would like to show why this is not only a particularly bad idea but also a destructive one, leading to exactly the opposite of the result sought by the program. Mr. Obama plans to
Mises Daily
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Chris Brown
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Austrian economists have long been critical of the static, unrealistic models of neoclassical economics and instead take a dynamic, causal-realist approach. Similarly, the role of government, while receiving heavy analysis from Austrians, is taken as a given in most neoclassical models and textbooks, used today in almost all university economics
Mises Daily
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Michele Boldrin
David K. Levine
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[Excerpt from “Chapter 1: Introduction” in Against Intellectual Monopoly by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine. Copyright © 2008 Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine. Reproduced with the permission of Cambridge University Press. Additional information may be obtained here. ] In late 1764, while repairing a small Newcomen steam engine, the idea of
Mises Daily
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Fred Buzzeo
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If you want to see the devastating effects of regulation, look no further than the New York City housing market. As a former director in a municipal housing agency, I often wondered why property owners would come into my office ready to sign over their deeds. As a current property owner and developer, the reason is now all too clear. Battling all