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Can 12th-Century Medicine Save 21st-Century Health Care?

05/23/2019Audio/VideoMichel AccadAnish Koka

Accad and Koka interview Dr. Victoria Sweet, author of the best-sellers God’s Hotel and Slow Medicine , two of the most important books on medicine in recent times.

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Can We Have a Reasonable Discussion About Vaccines?

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04/22/2019Audio/VideoMichel AccadAnish Koka

Are public health concerns about unvaccinated children sufficient to trump individual liberty? Accad and Koka interview Dr. Niran Al-Aqba, a board-certified pediatrician in Washington State.

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Conservative Means to Progressive Ends? Avik Roy on Healthcare

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04/12/2019Audio/VideoMichel AccadAnish Koka

Is there a conservative path to universal healthcare? Avik Roy certainly believes so.

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College Admissions Scandal: More Meddling by the Feds

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03/13/2019Power & MarketPeter G. Klein

As with the federal investigation into college basketball recruiting, the college admissions scandal announced yesterday seems to fall into FBI jurisdiction only because of the overly broad mail and wire fraud statutes and federal racketeering laws — which make every tort or contract violation...

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Cardiology Health Policy: The Clinicians Strike Back

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02/28/2019Audio/VideoMichel AccadAnish Koka

Dr. Rishi Wadhera on how rigorous science can put healthcare policy under scrutiny and show that the wisdom of the wonks frequently falls short.

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Cost Sharing: Paying for Healthcare in an Ethical and Sustainable Way

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02/18/2019Audio/VideoMichel AccadAnish Koka

Can we ever go back to a time when communities took care of the medical needs of their members without the intervention of governments and without the corrupting influence of health insurance? Accad and Koka interview Dale Bellis, founder of Liberty Healthshare.

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Central Planning Failed in the USSR, but Central Banks Have Revived It

Money and BanksMoney and Banking

Blog09/19/2018Vitaliy Katsenelson

When I left Soviet Russia in 1991, I thought I would never see a command-and-control economy again. I was wrong. Over the past decade the global economy has started to resemble one.

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Competition and Monopoly

Monopoly and Competition

02/09/2017CoursesPeter G. Klein

This three-lecture course focuses on applications to business strategy, antitrust and regulation, and innovation from an Austrian perspective.

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.

The US Economy Is Being Japanified — Thanks to the Fed

Andrew Moran

Central bankers are increasingly talking about raising the inflation target above 2 percent. Are negative interest rates next?

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.