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Murray N. Rothbard

The battle between Rand and Branden, moreover, is really no contest. Rand created something, whereas Branden has lived his entire life parasitically off Rand, first as a worshipful disciple and cult organizer, then as a neo-Randian shrink who set up shop in California with the solid initial base of the RandCult's Nathaniel Branden Institute mailing list.

Art Carden

Capitalism delivers the goods, and it does so in abundance. Interventionist alternatives do not.

Douglas French

"Alain de Botton is not an economist by training, but he clearly understands the division of labor (he even uses the term!) and is a keen observer of human action and the human condition."

Douglas French

So despite the constant outrage and occasional legal hassles, the lack of copyright enforcement in the pornographic movie and entertainment business creates "an industry that is more innovative, creates new products and adopts new technologies more quickly, and for which the reduction in distribution cost has resulted in more output at lower prices and a more diverse product,"

Jeffrey A. Tucker

"The truth behind most of the regulations we have today is that there was already a social and cultural movement against the dangers featured in Madmen."

Fred DeArmond

"The products of our schools, for the most part, are incompetent to think and act intelligently, honestly, and bravely in this difficult era."

Art Carden

For even if it is shown that violent video games lead to more crime, the case for government intervention is complicated by measurement issues, concerns over personal liberty and personal privacy, and the tendency for regulation to lead to ever more regulation.

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