Entrepreneurship Is the Foundation of a Productive Society
To spread the benefits of goods and services, we must first spread the mindset needed to take on the task of producing goods and services. That is, the mindset of entrepreneurship.
To spread the benefits of goods and services, we must first spread the mindset needed to take on the task of producing goods and services. That is, the mindset of entrepreneurship.
After weeks of bungling, faulty tests, and policy reversals the CDC bureaucrats managed to achieve some semblance of competence. But by then they were already far behind the curve.
Medical experts have tunnel vision when it comes to disease and public policy, and they greatly overestimate their own abilities to anticipate unintended costs and consequences.
Although bureaucrats with safe jobs and luxury homes like Anthony Fauci continue to insist mass unemployment is merely "inconvenient," job losses mean many Mexicans could be staring grinding poverty in the face.
Even Now, Japan and Hong Kong are moving only very slowly toward economic "lockdowns." Korea and Taiwan employ different strategies altogether.
The nonaggression principle—"anything peaceful"—comes as close to a value-free analysis in a political, ethical, economic, and legal theory as conceivably possible. It was insufficient for Rothbard, because he rightly found it insufficient for liberty.
Entrepreneurs can offer new ways of serving established markets, but large institutions will keep with what has worked in the past so long as it just continues to work in the present. Radical change happens only in an emergency. For the British university that time has now arrived.
A healthcare system based on responsible risk management systems would provide market incentives for people to improve health while cutting costs for some needy populations.
If buyers aren't allowed to compete in terms of prices, they'll be forced to compete in terms of time waiting, distance traveled, or other real costs.
Thanks to regulations and a lack of private spending, Italy's healthcare system had very limited capacity even before the current crisis.