All Posts Tagged With: "licensing"
He’s No Bruce Lee
It would appear that we have a market failure of sorts: folks of wildly varying skills claiming to be black belts, some able to give a Bruce Lee performance, others looking more pathetic than potent.
20Jul2011 | Jim Fedako | 10 comments | ContinuedAsk Not For Whom the Drug Tolls
“Fifty years ago, it made sense to assert that mental illnesses are not diseases, but it makes no sense to say so today. Debate about what counts as mental illness has been replaced by legislation about the medicalization and demedicalization of behavior. Old diseases such as homosexuality and hysteria disappear. New diseases such as gambling [...]
22Dec2010 | Wendy McElroy | 13 comments | ContinuedThe Right to Work
The people of Louisiana must sleep soundly knowing that their state protects them from . . . unlicensed florists. That’s right. In Louisiana, you can’t sell flower arrangements unless you have permission from the government. How do you get permission? You must pass a test graded by a board of florists who already have licenses. [...]
20May2010 | John Stossel | 16 comments | ContinuedHealth Care and Radical Monopoly
In a recent article for Tikkun, Dr. Arnold Relman argued that the versions of health care reform currently proposed by “progressives” all primarily involve financing health care and expanding coverage to the uninsured rather than addressing the way current models of service delivery make it so expensive. Editing out all the pro forma tut-tutting of [...]
23Feb2010 | Kevin A. Carson | 23 comments | ContinuedHow Cities Put the Brakes on Taxicabs
Sam Staley is vice president for research at Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions in Dayton, Ohio, directs the Urban Futures Program for the Los Angeles-based Reason Public Policy Institute, and has more than ten years of experience in local government consulting. The lifeblood of any economy is its people. Human progress ultimately springs from [...]
1Mar1998 | Samuel R. Staley | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Amazing Creative Power of One
Mr. Mason, Inc. Magazine Entrepreneur of the Year, has been inducted into the Entrepreneur Hall of Fame (University of North Carolina). Based in Weston, Connecticut, he has lectured at more than 20 colleges and universities across the United States and Canada. He has been the University of Connecticut’s Director of Entrepreneurship Development, and he is [...]
1Jul1997 | Stanley I. Mason Jr. | 0 comments | ContinuedKilling Enterprise
Doug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and a nationally syndicated columnist. He is the author and editor of several books, including The Politics of Envy: Statism as Theology (Transaction). The Big Apple, as New York City is known, is a bustling, energetic metropolis that nevertheless remains a difficult place for all [...]
1Nov1996 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | Continued-
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