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Why Interventionist Economists Love to Talk about Externalities

Step 1: claim that only government can solve the problem of "externalities." Step 2: claim that externalities are everywhere. Step 3: send in bureaucrats to solve every "problem" caused by externalities.

1789: The First Thing the New American Government Did Was Impose a Huge Tax Increase

Blog7 hours agoJoshua Mawhorter

It turned out that taxation with representation could be just as oppressive as taxation without representation. Or worse.

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Digitalization Could Move Medical Care beyond "Government Healthcare"

Blog8 hours agoAyush Poolovadoo

Government healthcare is centrally planned healthcare. Innovations in the decentralized "digitalization" of medicine could finally move medicine back in the direction of markets.

What Economics Is Not

10/23/2021Mises Daily ArticlesLlewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

The Austrian approach to economics dispenses with the idea of "economic man," and broadens economics to include all action, which takes place in a framework of scarcity.

Proponents of Forced Vaccines Want You to Think Healthcare Is a Communal Resource

Blog10/23/2021Robert Zumwalt

Supporters of vaccine mandates are pushing the idea that healthcare is a communal resource. This idea allows them to make false moral claims about how everyone owes it to "society" to get vaccinated.

Why Censorship Advocates Are Obsessed with Stories about Yelling "Fire!" in a Theater

Blog10/23/2021Joshua Mawhorter

The fact that such a vacuous and irrelevant example became such a compelling argument for the government restriction of freedom of speech in many other areas is disturbing.

Speech Isn't a "Threat" Just Because a Government Official Says So

Blog10/23/2021Hans Bader

Many parents are becoming angry over the contempt with which they are treated by school officials. So school board officials are attempting to use federal "harassment" laws to silence critics.

Why Some People Are Poorer

10/22/2021Mises Daily ArticlesHenry Hazlitt

The only permanent way to cure poverty is to increase the earning power and productivity of the poor.

Is Solidarity a Good Thing?

Blog10/22/2021David Gordon

Further, if solidarity is a value, why can’t the common enterprise be that people in a society share a commitment to the free market? Or is solidarity only good when people jointly do things socialists like?

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Joe Salerno on Rothbard's History of Economic Thought

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What the Fed Is Not Telling Us

10/21/2021Robert Aro

The Dangers of “Should Be”

10/19/2021Robert Aro

The Answer to Suicide Isn't a Gun Lock

10/19/2021Alan Mosley

The Sovereign State of Florida

10/18/2021Andrew Walter

Inflation Celebration

10/14/2021Robert Aro

Does the Fed Need More Progressives?

10/11/2021Robert Aro

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