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In Jamaica, the Tourists Party On behind High Walls and Locked Gates

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12/14/2022Doug French

High time preferences also mean high times in a party atmosphere. When Jamaica embraced socialism many decades ago, it wasn't supposed to come to this.

Original Article: "In Jamaica, the Tourists Party On behind High Walls and Locked Gates"

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Doug French

Douglas French is President Emeritus of the Mises Institute, author of Early Speculative Bubbles & Increases in the Money Supply, and author of Walk Away: The Rise and Fall of the Home-Ownership Myth. He received his master's degree in economics from UNLV, studying under both Professor Murray Rothbard and Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe.

Original Article: 
In Jamaica, the Tourists Party On behind High Walls and Locked Gates