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Net Neutrality and the Problem with "Experts"

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Blog12/11/2017
Supporters of net neutrality imagine that if we can only get the "right" group of people, a tiny handful of "experts" can govern the internet.
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Mises as Social Rationalist Pt VI: Social Evolution as Ideological Struggle

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Blog10/31/2017
The course of social evolution and the fortunes of humanity are inextricably bound up with the fortunes of the ongoing ideological struggle.
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Mises as Social Rationalist Pt V: The Problem of Socialism: Calculation or Knowledge?

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Blog10/30/2017
Mises's critique of the possibility of socialism is not about knowledge but about calculation.
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Mises as Social Rationalist Pt IV: Use of Calculation versus Use of Knowledge: The Social Function of Prices

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Blog10/28/2017
Economic calculation itself is not the means of acquiring knowledge, but the very prerequisite of rational action within society.
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Mises as Social Rationalist Pt III: Economic Calculation, Market, and Society

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Blog10/27/2017
The market and its configuration at any moment in time is to be explained by the human values and choices which give rise to these exchanges.
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Mises as Social Rationalist Pt II: The Rationalistic Basis of Rules of Conduct and Social Institutions

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Blog10/26/2017
The very concept of an isolated human being is a fiction, a useful mental construct for social theory, but impossible of realization in history.
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Mises as Social Rationalist Pt I: Reason and the Origin of Society

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Blog10/25/2017
The principle of the division of labor has application in both the social and biological worlds.
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3 Good Things about "Price Gouging"

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Blog09/06/2017
When sellers can price goods freely, we are all better able to plan and conserve for future use of essential goods.
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How the Feds Blocked Effective Flood Insurance

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Blog09/05/2017
Government agencies have helped to encourage urban and suburban development in flood plains and other disaster-prone areas.
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Why Government Cannot Be Run Like a Business

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Blog09/04/2017

Even with a former CEO in charge, no government agency can be run like a business. Trump's business experience gives him little advantage Washington.

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