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

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

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

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

As Kinsella points out, a major feature o

I can’t even bring myself to comment on

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

The report this morning about June retail has everyone down in the mouth, but it actually can’t be a bad thing that consumers are pulling back.

Following on the heels of the excellent discussions during Secession We

Here’s a question, paraphrased from Charles Calomiris via Deirdre McCloskey’s The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce: wou