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Contraception: Insuring the Uninsurable
It makes no sense to talk about insuring against the eventuality that a particular person will reach child-bearing age and use contraception.
10Feb2012 | Sheldon Richman | 12 comments | ContinuedThe Snow Plowers’ Petition
Looking for the unseen effects of economic policy is the beginning of wisdom.
9Feb2012 | Steven Horwitz | 11 comments | ContinuedSuper Bowl versus Education?
It appears that spending on government education in one year was 324 times the amount companies spent on Super Bowl advertising over 20 years.
7Feb2012 | Sandy Ikeda | 15 comments | ContinuedCapitalism, Corporatism, and the Freed Market
The system that most immediately threatens individual liberty is corporatism.
3Feb2012 | Sheldon Richman | 21 comments | ContinuedCreating Jobs versus Creating Value
The next time anyone starts talking about job creation, stop listening. Jobs come into existence when entrepreneurs are free to create value.
2Feb2012 | Steven Horwitz | 26 comments | ContinuedThe Boston Red Sox and Bad Baseball Economics
If you don’t understand the law of supply and demand, you may end up promoting the very outcome you want to avoid.
1Feb2012 | Aaron Gordon | 4 comments | ContinuedThe Chimera of Tax Fairness
Let’s hear no more about tax fairness, unless it’s to point out that fairness is approached as tax rates move toward zero.
27Jan2012 | Sheldon Richman | 21 comments | ContinuedThe Problem with Privatization
If the goal is efficiency in delivering the goods, private ownership is a necessary but not a sufficient condition.
26Jan2012 | Steven Horwitz | 27 comments | ContinuedTwo Kinds of Government Failure
One emphasizes incentive problems, the other knowledge problems.
24Jan2012 | Sandy Ikeda | 2 comments | ContinuedTaxing Investment
The income tax double-taxes saving relative to consumption, that is, reduces the returns to saving twice, while reducing the returns to consumption just once.
23Jan2012 | Roy Cordato | 13 comments | ContinuedThe Internet Dodges the SOPA Bullet — for Now
Last week the acronyms SOPA and PIPA were unheard of, much less decipherable, by most people.
20Jan2012 | Sheldon Richman | 15 comments | ContinuedThe Limits of the Local
A global economy has room for the local, while mandatory localism cannot meet the needs of those who prefer to buy global.
19Jan2012 | Steven Horwitz | 10 comments | ContinuedThe Keynesian Cure for Hunger: Eat More
For millennia people were starving to death and the solution was right there in front of them.
16Jan2012 | Richard W. Fulmer | 12 comments | ContinuedAustrian Economics Hits the Headlines
Austrian economic theory describes how purposive action by fallible human beings unintentionally generates a grand, complex, and orderly market process.
13Jan2012 | Sheldon Richman | 23 comments | ContinuedNot Just What, But How
Only in a free-market economy, characterized by the private ownership of capital, could we figure out not just what to produce, but how best to produce it.
12Jan2012 | Steven Horwitz | 4 comments | ContinuedCommerce and Artistic Freedom
The dynamic merchant class gave birth to artistic freedom a thousand years ago, and today commerce continues to open new opportunities for creative expression to budding artists.
10Jan2012 | Sandy Ikeda | 3 comments | ContinuedCavemen and Middlemen
Middlemen helped bring mankind out of caves and into prosperity; in return they have been reviled, persecuted, and killed.
9Jan2012 | Richard W. Fulmer | 13 comments | Continued-
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