All Posts Tagged With: "barriers to entry"

The Right to Earn a Living Under Attack

In Louisiana it is illegal to sell and arrange flowers without permission from the government. Aspiring florists must pass a subjective licensing exam that is graded by existing florists, who have a direct incentive to keep new competitors from entering the market. Thus the failure rate is higher than that of the Louisiana bar, which [...]

1Dec2008 | Bob Ewing | 2 comments | Continued

Hierarchy or the Market

Kevin Carson is the author of Studies in Mutualist Political Economy. He blogs at Mutualist Blog: Free Market Anti-Capitalism.
In an article in last June’s Freeman, I applied some ideas from the socialist-calculation debate to the private corporation and examined the extent to which it is an island of calculational chaos in the market economy. I’d [...]

1Apr2008 | Kevin Carson | 0 comments | Continued

Book Reviews – June 2007

  • Hitlers Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State

    by Goetz Aly Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
  • The Big Ripoff: How Big Business and Big Government Steal Your Money
    by Timothy P. Carney Reviewed by Sheldon Richman
  • Income and Wealth
    by Alan Reynolds Reviewed by George C. Leef
  • The Sarbanes-Oxley Debacle What We Have Learned; How to Fix It
    by Henry N. Butler and Larry E. Ribstein Reviewed by Barbara Hunter
  • The Joy of SOX: Why Sarbanes-Oxley and Service-Oriented Architecture May Be the Best Thing That Ever Happened to You
    by Hugh Taylor Reviewed by Barbara Hunter
1Jun2007 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | Continued

Cable-Franchise Reform: Deregulation or Just New Regulators?

Adam Summers is a policy analyst at the Reason Foundation.
There is much hand-wringing and teeth-gnashing among politicians who decry businesses for maintaining monopolies that harm consumers. Yet in a free market such businesses will find any monopoly position fleeting. If they charge too much or fail to provide suitable quality in their products and services, [...]

1Apr2007 | Adam Summers | 0 comments | Continued