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Whatever other attributes the human being brings to bear on the social order of which he is the integral, his will to live comes first in the hierarchy.

Whoever the president, whatever the party in power, Moynihan managed to land on his feet — and on top.

Professional athlete Albert Pujols is undoubtedly a phenomenal mower of lawns. Does this translate into competitiveness in lawn-cutting circles? Nope.

Governments, which are eager to keep up the outward appearance of freedom even when curtailing freedom, disguise their direct interference with consumption under the cloak of interference with business.

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Political Scientist and MSNBC contributor Mellissa Harris-Perry has called for renewed

The problem of the influence of power on prices as such has hitherto been only scantily treated, and never in a systematic manner, in economic theory.

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What is the logical status of the law of marginal utility or of the quantity theory of money? To answer this, Mises had to confront empiricism and historicism.