Mises Daily
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Danny Hieber
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for preserving languages, I’m interested in something else entirely: how language policy is a perfect example of the socialist-calculation problem. Governments necessarily adopt nonoptimal language policies. They are incentivized to violate the rights of minority language speakers bilingualism is a state in which two languages are seen as complementary, not in competition.” [7] Language is a nonscarce resource. [8] In fact, the majority of the