Biden’s Government Jobs Are the “Seen” the Lost Market Jobs Are the “Unseen”

In the near future, anyone reading up on news is likely to find an article titled “Jobs Created under Biden” or a report on how many jobs were added through Biden’s programs. These jobs the news reader will see, but the jobs that workers would have been doing had the government not hired them will be invisible to this reader.

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In August 2020, the Institute for Justice published a report entitled “Conning the Competition: A Nationwide Survey of Certificate of Need Laws.” Certificate of Need (CON) laws are a particular problem in a health crisis like we are experiencing now. However, the problem with CON laws is nothing new to readers of the Mises Institute.

Jeff Riggenbach, one of the pioneer libertarians from the 1970s, died today at the age of seventy-four. The dominant theme of his work was opposition to war, and he was a great champion of Randolph Bourne, who famously said that “war is the health of the state.”   He was drawn to the Mises Institute through our opposition to war.

He said about the Institute:

Strict lockdowns imposed by governments to slow the spread of covid-19 continue to force more and more people around the planet into a “work from home” setup. This is problematic for a number of reasons as the citizens of countries around the world have to go about work and entrepreneurial activities under a number of restrictions: Tomas Forgac summarized major problems encountered by people who try to go on with their lives amid quarantine requirements.

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