Bureaucracy and Regulation

If current political and economic trends continue, the 2020s will usher in a new period of drastically increased government activity and regulation of the economy.

What proponents of lockdowns mean by “follow the science” is that statements made by scientists should be accepted as axioms. An obvious problem exists when scientists make conflicting statements.

The medical profession has long employed the state to pad doctor salaries and influence. Before the Flexner Report, mechanics made more than doctors and the brightest students avoided the profession to enter the clergy.

Free the liquor stores to sell what products they want, what days of the week they want, what hours they want, and to whom they want.

Free the liquor stores to sell what products they want, what days of the week they want, what hours they want, and to whom they want.

In this issue of The Austrian, we provide highlights from some of the most important and salient articles published on mises.org during the unprecedented crisis of 2020.

In a free country, doctors would be free to prescribe whatever drugs they wish to anyone for any reason. In fact, individuals should be free to buy drugs without a special government-required doctor's note.

Neither voters nor politicians watch the bureaucracy very carefully, so they respond as one might expect—advancing their own and their favorites' interests, at the expense of the public they are supposedly working for.

In a free country, doctors would be free to prescribe whatever drugs they wish to anyone for any reason. In fact, individuals should be free to buy drugs without a special government-required doctor's note.

Neither voters nor politicians watch the bureaucracy very carefully, so they respond as one might expect—advancing their own and their favorites' interests, at the expense of the public they are supposedly working for.