We should hope that the medical art is not co-opted by governing elites (including those with an MD or MPH after their name) who believe that practicing medicine is as easy as checking off boxes and interpreting numbers on a computer screen. Such a simplistic view is undoubtedly a fatal conceit.
The question in the popular press is, "Which economic policy is the best to alleviate the recession?" Wrong question.
No one wants a needle park in his or her neighborhood, but that is exactly what prohibition brings.
No one wants a needle park in his or her neighborhood, but that is exactly what prohibition brings.
This spontaneous social order dissolves into chaos every so often: when a city cop decides to enforce state order over social order.
Austrian coordination does not represent a destructive struggle between entrepreneur and consumer. Instead, it is a theory of progress.
The high duties which the war caused to be imposed, at first regarded as temporary, were retained, increased, and systematized.
It is simply impossible for one immersed in the political game to think normally. If we accept as normal the thought processes of those who make a living in the marketplace, then the tergiversations of the political mind must be considered abnormal or "crooked."
What is the opportunity cost of the government's spending? All those resources used for the shuttle program had to come from somewhere. It is impossible for a government to make the vital calculations of costs and benefits.
The analysis of the role an individual plays when he enlists in the state apparatus is not tantamount to a condemnation of his motives or character.
