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Review: Austerity: When It Works and When It Doesn’t

Taxes and Spending

06/27/2019Quarterly Journal of Austrian EconomicsMark Thornton

Mark Thornton reviews Alesina, Favero, and Giavazzi's book, which argues that austerity plans based on tax increases fare much worse than plans based on reducing expenditures.

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Richard Cantillon As a Proto-Austrian

History of the Austrian School of EconomicsMoney and BankingProduction Theory

06/23/2019Audio/VideoJeff DeistMark Thornton

Jeff Deist and Mark Thornton discuss the works of one of the fathers of modern economics: Richard Cantillon.

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Review: The High Cost of Good Intentions: A History of U.S. Federal Entitlement Programs

Bureaucracy and RegulationU.S. History

05/04/2019Quarterly Journal of Austrian EconomicsMark Thornton

Entitlement programs have worsened the problems they were designed to solve and are now giving out massive subsidies to the non-poor.

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The High Cost of Good Intentions A History of US Federal Entitlement Programs.pdf

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Robert Shiller Is Shilling for the State

Booms and BustsBusiness Cycles

Blog05/30/2017Mark Thornton

For economist Robert Shiller, housing bubbles result from too little government regulation.

Embrace Unilateral Free Trade with the UK — Right Now

Ryan McMaken

Americans ought to begin thinking of trade between the US and the UK as something comparable to trade between California and Idaho.

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Why the Courts Aren't All They're Supposed to Be

Lee Friday

The government accepts no legal obligation to provide specified law enforcement services in exchange for the taxes it forcibly extracts from the citizenry. A clearly defined and voluntarily accepted reciprocal agreement between the government and the citizens has never existed.

Chilean Protesters Could End Chile's Decades of Progress

José Niño

The history of Latin America is filled with tragic stories of countries reaching great heights — Argentina and Venezuela come to mind — and then falling back to mediocrity. Chile could be next if the protesters get their way.

Teacher Unions Destroy School Accountability

Robert Fellner

The Clark County School District evaluated itself, and it determined that all the teachers and administrators are doing a great job — and by the way, the union deserves more money.

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Review: Austerity: When It Works and When It Doesn’t

Austerity When It Works and When It Doesn't.pdf

Richard Cantillon As a Proto-Austrian

Review: The High Cost of Good Intentions: A History of U.S. Federal Entitlement Programs

The High Cost of Good Intentions A History of US Federal Entitlement Programs.pdf

Robert Shiller Is Shilling for the State

Embrace Unilateral Free Trade with the UK — Right Now

Get Your Free Book Today!

Why the Courts Aren't All They're Supposed to Be

Chilean Protesters Could End Chile's Decades of Progress

Teacher Unions Destroy School Accountability

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