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Notes from Snowmageddon

Media and CulturePraxeologyPrivate Property

Blog01/26/2016T. Hunt Tooley

Not a Snow Job; or, Spontaneous Order in Winter.

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New York State Bans Fantasy Football

Legal SystemMedia and CulturePrivate PropertyValue and Exchange

Blog11/11/2015Mark Thornton

New York State Attorney General says that fantasy football is just as bad for you as the State Lottery. The lottery is actually much worse!

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Black Markets in School Cafeterias

Big GovernmentEducationHealthInterventionismPrivate Property

Blog06/25/2015Mark Thornton

Congress and the First Lady teamed up to impose the Healthy, Hungry-Free Kids Act on school children across the country, but news of unintended consequences abound.

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The Socialist Sinking Ship: Then and Now

Free MarketsWorld HistoryPrivate Property

Blog04/20/2015Carmen Elena Dorobăț

If the Venezuelan example of socialism’s ultimate consequences baffles anybody, it is because of how little (economic) history people remember, and how quickly its lessons are forgotten.

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Feds Seize Widow's Legally-Obtained Money — Because Terrorism

Legal SystemThe Police StatePrivate Property

Blog02/11/2015Ryan McMaken

The banking system in the United States today functions largely as a spy agency for the federal government.

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How Interest Groups Invented the Crosswalk (and Much More)

Free MarketsU.S. HistoryPrivate Property

Blog02/04/2015Ryan McMaken

When interest groups invented the crime of jaywalking.

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Walter Block Interviewed by Institut Coppet

Monopoly and CompetitionPrivate Property

Blog01/05/2015Ryan McMaken

Walter Block ...

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Nullification Works: Congress Ends Federal Ban on Medical Marijuana

The Police StateU.S. HistoryPrivate Property

Blog12/17/2014Ryan McMaken

Tucked deep inside the 1,603-page federal spending measure is a provision that effectively ends the federal government's prohibition on medical marijuana and signals a major shift in drug policy.

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Computer Networks and Applications: Open or Closed?

EntrepreneurshipPrivate Property

Blog11/19/2014Peter G. Klein

Computing and networking practices move in cycles. In the early days of computing, processing occurred in a few large mainframe computers, with users dialing in using "dumb" terminals. The PC revolution of the 1980s made it possible for simple tasks to be performed locally, on the desktop, while...

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Ronald Coase, Murray Rothbard, and Walter Block on the Indian River

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Blog01/13/2014Mark Thornton

There is controversy on the Indian River in southeast Florida where fishermen are complaining about the fertilizer runoff from sugar farms. The fertilizer runoff leads to an overgrowth of algae in...