All Posts Tagged With: "certificates of need"
Medical Technology and the State
So-called public-policy experts often take the many advances in modern technology for granted. They assume that government regulations and controls merely redistribute the fruits of progress without affecting the nature and extent of technological development itself.
But that is wrong. Whenever the government involves itself in the financing and distribution of goods and services, the production [...]
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Government as Consumer
Destutt de Tracy, as I discussed last week, was a French economist whom Thomas Jefferson did his utmost... Read More
Profits, Losses, and Structural Change
A recurring economic theme of President Obama’s election campaign and presidency has been that previous... Read More
Underconsumption Is Not the Problem
Paul Krugman recently declared that our real economics problem is this: “What’s limiting employment... Read More
The Fruits of Imperfection
Beneath the nationalism and medal counts that seemed to dominate the Winter Olympic Games just ended... Read More
Jefferson’s Economist
In 1817 the Frenchman the Count Destutt de Tracy (1754-1836) published his Treatise on the Will and... Read More
