The Early History of Regulated Health Care
A brief history of how various state interventions have raised health care prices and lessened access.
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The Moral Incoherence of Drug Prohibition
The claim is made that drug use is immoral, so must therefore be illegal. Should we outlaw every other immoral activity also?
Drugs, Prohibition, and the Suburban Overdose Crisis
Dr. Mark Thornton is interviewed on the suburban heroin epidemic in America.
The Week in Review: April 16, 2016
Tax day reminds us of the violent coercion that is essential to every government's budget.
Dr. Michel Accad: Can Austrian Economics Save Medicine?
Dr. Accad presents a brilliant application of Austrian theory to real world practice.
What’s So Moral About Moral Hazard?
Moral hazard is a vital concept for economics. We should be careful not to let critics trivialize or dismiss it; when they do, calls for government intervention and special privileges are seldom far behind.
Let’s Get Government Out of the Physician Certification Business
Should the government impose its own standards for certification for physicians? The short answer is "no."
Flint MI. Whistle Blower Says Public Science Broken
The Virginia Tech Professor who blew the whistle on lead in the water in Flint, MI thinks "public science" has been broken. Not knowing its been a broken system all along.
Rollback
Rollback takes on both liberal and conservative conventions and their habits of mind. The objective of the work is dramatically ambitious. Woods writes with relentless precision, like an intellectual surgeon, to convince the reader that the...
The Week in Review: December 19, 2015
This week, the Federal Reserve raised the target Federal Funds Rate ever so slightly. The Fed perhaps felt it had to raise rates to protect its credibility, as credibility problems seem to be plaguing similar institutions worldwide.
