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The Transfer Society
The story of Robinson Crusoe has been used to illustrate many economic points. So let’s try this question. What if, instead of working and cooperating to produce as much food, shelter, clothing, and other goods as they could, Crusoe and Friday instead spent most of their time fighting over the division of what nature readily [...]
1Aug2002 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedHigh Plains Drifters: Politicians’ Lucrative Protection Racket
Fred McChesney teaches at Cornell Law School and is the author of Money for Nothing: Politicians, Rent Extraction and Political Extortion (Harvard University Press, 1997). “Politicians are interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.” —P. J. O’Rourke The idea that politicians sell special favors to special interests [...]
1Jan1998 | Fred S. McChesney | 1 comment | Continued-
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