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July 25 marks the 1902 birth of Eric Hoffer, known as the “longshoreman philosopher” for the manual labor he performed for most of his life.

According to the Socialist Party USA website, “In socialism, full employment is r

According to the Socialist Party USA website, “In socialism, full employment is realize

Governments seem to use “market-like” solutions to obvious commons-problems.

Here are some basic principles of bizarro economics in the 21st century:

If meaning is use, then President Obama is a socialist, and there can’t be any argument about it —

While 2,300+ pages worth of financial regulation just passed Congress that will provide the tools to, in the words of Henry Paulson, “help mitigate

As Kinsella points out, a major feature o

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I’m often asked by people who are interested in the criticisms of intellectual property how authors, for example, would be compensated in a copyrig