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What DiLorenzo offers is not a biography of Hamilton but instead a critical examination of his ideas and a historical exploration of how they have shaped American history. DiLorenzo contrasts the statist, mercantilist, and nationalist philosophy of Hamilton with the strict constitutionalism of Jefferson, writes Art Carden. This audio Mises Daily
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In previous essays, I have argued that a) we may not be measuring inequality correctly and that a proper conception of the concept may lead us to the conclusion that inequality is actually decreasing , and b) that even if inequality is increasing, it is unclear that it is necessarily detrimental to society . Here, I will show that the data on the
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Suppose that you want to destroy a city. Should you bomb it, or would it be sufficient just to impose rent control? It’s a bracing question at first, but some economists have argued that the two are roughly equivalent. When the price of rent is held below the market-clearing level, shortages emerge and the housing stock rapidly deteriorates. Those
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It seems like the news is just a never-ending catalog of newer and better ways in which the political class is destroying the world. The US government is spending hundreds of billions of dollars to prop up firms that should be liquidated so that the capital they are tying up can be better used elsewhere, new restrictions on credit cards will hurt
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[ The Che Guevara Myth and the Future of Liberty by Alvaro Vargas Llosa • Oakland, CA: The Independent Institute • 2006.] Ironically, anticapitalist crusader and left-wing icon Che Guevara has turned into a brand name revered by people the world around, which brought me to Alvaro Vargas Llosa’s The Che Guevara Myth and the Future of Liberty .
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[An MP3 audio file of this article, read by Floy Lilley, is available for download.] Henry Hazlitt once said that good ideas have to be relearned every generation. Among the intellectuals of our time, capitalism is wildly unpopular. This in spite of the fact that it is the only social system that has permitted prosperity and flourishing. Why
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What is barbecue? If you ask ten people, you will get ten different answers. And if those ten people are in the same room when you ask them, you might have a fight on your hands. In Texas, barbecue is beef. In Tennessee and most of the rest of the South, it is pork. In North Carolina, the pork is pulled. In other places the pork is chopped or
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[This article is based on remarks prepared for a panel on “What’s Wrong With the World?” at Rhodes College on September 29, 2009.] I assume that we all want to use the lives we’ve been given to make the world a better place. This isn’t as straightforward as it seems at first. It is insufficient merely to think globally; and depressingly many kinds