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watch over, and punish ranchers, farmers and supermarkets is also on Schlosser’s policy menu, further revealing his rather childishly naïve, pie-in-the-sky view of Schlosser’s economic ignorance: Advertising makes the fast-food industry more competitive, and therefore more likely to offer healthier food. If McDonald’s is the

This is why politicians are inclined to label virtually all of their domestic policies as “wars” -- on drugs, poverty, unemployment, drunk driving, etc., etc., and more plausible-sounding crises to talk about. To politicians, losing one of these policy “wars” is really success. For the worse things become -- the higher the attempting to achieve through politics what they have failed to achieve in the competitive marketplace. The results obtained by Hazlett and Bittlingmayer are not at

of a Reason Foundation proposal for city governments to put city services up for competitive bidding. MacLean’s critique begins with a chapter about John C. Calhoun, libertarian economics, defense of civil liberties, and his advocacy of a foreign policy of national defense instead of offense. MacLean also completely ignores the