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Joseph F. Becker

Provost / Graduate Faculty

Tags Legal SystemPolitical Theory

Works Published inThe Journal of Libertarian Studies

Joseph F. Becker is a Mises University graduate and Mises Institute Associated Scholar and staff member who earned his master's degree in economics under Murray Rothbard. He worked with the Nevada Policy Research Institute's Center for Justice where he sued government agencies on behalf of plaintiffs with sympathetic libertarian causes.

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Cash for Clunkers: Yet Another Way Government Increased the Cost of Living

U.S. EconomyU.S. History

Blog03/18/2019Joseph F. Becker

No economy is made better off by destroying existing resources. But that's what "cash for clunkers" tried to do, while only driving up the price of transportation for middle and lower-middle class families.

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Memories of Rothbard at UNLV

Mises News

07/17/2018Power & MarketJoseph F. Becker

Returning today to Mises University 2018, it’s difficult and even a little scary for me to accept that thirty summers have gone by since my first Mises University in 1988 on the Stanford campus. And it's been twenty five years since I graduated from the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) with...

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Joseph Becker: Economic Liberty Denied

Legal SystemPolitical Theory

10/03/2014Mises MediaJeff DeistJoseph F. Becker

Jeff Deist and Joseph Becker discuss the illusion of judicial remedies for most Americans.

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Susette Kelo, et al. v. City of New London, Connecticut

Big GovernmentCorporate WelfarePrivate Property

07/30/2014The Journal of Libertarian StudiesJoseph F. Becker

Susette Kelo would like to continue living in her newly-restored, waterfront home of seven years. Her neighbor, Wilhelmina Dery, would like to continue living in the home in which she was born in 1918 and, for the past fifty years, has shared with her husband, Charles. Pfizer Corporation, on the...

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