Eric Holder: Defender of Private Property?
US AG Holder did something good on asset forfeiture. But don't break out the prize for Libertarian of the Year just yet.
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How Government Helped Create the Coming Doctor Shortage
If we want to lower the cost of health care, we should seek to increase the availability of health care services, including increases in trained me
Review of Economists and the State: What Went Wrong by Timothy P. Roth
Volume 17, No. 4 (Winter 2014)
Timothy P. Roth
How Government Helped Create the Coming Doctor Shortage
If we want to lower the cost of health care, we should seek to increase the availability of health care services, including increases in trained medical personnel. Government, however, acts repeatedly to prevent the entry of more doctors into the marketplace.
Why the Government Hasn’t Yet Managed to Destroy the Economy
The government cripples the economy a little more each day, but thanks to the resilience of markets, we've avoided economic destruction. Nevertheless, we're still a lot poorer than we would have been without big government.
How Much Longer Can the U.S. Economy Bear the Burdens?
Ordinary people, and sometimes experts as well, tend to overreact to short-term economic changes.
Secession Begins at Home
The most realistic plan for increasing freedom and free markets is not to vainly hope for a libertarian takeover of DC, but to create our own de facto independent societies right here at home.
How Free Markets Enhance Freedom of Choice
Our daily lives are determined by our choices as individual economic actors.
How Free Markets Enhance Freedom of Choice
Our daily lives are determined by our choices as individual economic actors. When governments intervene in our personal economics, they intervene in our personal preferences and choices.
Why Private-Sector Services Seem to Be More Expensive
Unable to compete with cheap, government-subsidized services designed for the low end of the market, entrepreneurs find they must turn to higher-end customers who will pay more. Some wrongly interpret this as proof that markets are more expensive than government services.
