All Posts Tagged With: "regulation"
Economic Independence: Bedrock of Freedom
Economic independence is the bedrock of all other freedoms.
20Dec2011 | Wendy McElroy | 16 comments | ContinuedThe Age of the Busybody
Busybodies. In an earlier, gentler time, every neighborhood had one. Predominantly but not exclusively female in those days, the local busybody was recognized with ease. Although the verb was mercifully unknown, she micromanaged all PTA meetings, gatherings, sales, and affairs whether or not she was chairman or even occupied a seat on the governing board. [...]
30Nov2011 | Ridgway K. Foley Jr. | 0 comments | ContinuedElizabeth Warren’s Non Sequitur
Boiled down, Warren’s argument is that since everyone has paid taxes to provide services without which wealthy people couldn’t have made their money, they should pay more. How does that follow?
23Sep2011 | Sheldon Richman | 82 comments | ContinuedPrincipal-Agent Problem Meets the Public Sector
The problem with trying to adapt business-style incentives to a government agency is . . . government.
19Sep2011 | Fred Smith and Jacqueline Otto | 4 comments | ContinuedThe Cancer of Regulation
Politicians care about poor people. I know because they always say that. But then why do they make it so hard for the poor to escape poverty? Licensing, for example, prices poor people out of business. Take taxis: in New York City, you have to buy a license, or “medallion.” New York restricts the number [...]
24Aug2011 | John Stossel | 3 comments | ContinuedA Tale of Two Situations
Once upon a time selling a chicken was fraught with few if any legal implications. Remodeling a shed was equally simple from a regulatory standpoint. Today, however, we live in more enlightened times. Protected from our wayward desires by an empowered bureaucracy, we can rest easier knowing that decisions like what we eat and where [...]
24Aug2011 | Paul Schwennesen | 4 comments | ContinuedThe Infrastructure Delusion
Goods, people, and information will not flow freely across a nation, regardless of the quality and extent of its infrastructure, if taxes and regulations block their flow.
15Aug2011 | Richard W. Fulmer | 41 comments | ContinuedHe’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 | ContinuedMaking Whistle-Blowing Pay
The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced rules for its new corporate whistleblower program. The mind boggles at the incentives they establish.
21Jun2011 | Warren C. Gibson | 6 comments | ContinuedFree Markets Are Regulated
The question is not to regulate or not to regulate, but which type of regulation – market rules or State discretion – works better.
26May2011 | Steven Horwitz | 15 comments | Continued“Big Meat” and Big Government
Ranchers are a fairly independent bunch. We don’t like overweening authority and prefer to fend for ourselves. We also find few things more objectionable than sitting endlessly indoors. Nevertheless, 2,000 of us did just that several months ago in the ballroom of Colorado State University. Our ballroom session wasn’t very romantic, I’m afraid. While most [...]
25May2011 | Paul Schwennesen | 0 comments | ContinuedA Tale of Two Situations
It would be wonderful to live in a world where selling a chicken and remodeling a shed weren’t rife with official allegations or burdened with state prohibitions.
4May2011 | Paul Schwennesen | 11 comments | ContinuedImposing Values: An Essay on Liberalism and Regulation
Liberalism comes in two varieties, classical and modern. All liberals support limitations on government power, but modern liberalism favors, while classical liberalism opposes, significant interference with private property rights. N. Scott Arnold’s book on the classical-modern liberal debate focuses on the modern-liberal regulatory agenda, especially employment law (such as collective bargaining rules and antidiscrimination law), health [...]
21Apr2011 | Daniel Shapiro | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Kid and the Benevolent Bully
The kid had eighteen cents. The benevolent bully had a buck-forty-nine. The kid went to the corner candy store and bought a licorice pipe and a jawbreaker for two cents. He was giving serious consideration to the chewable wax lips when he overheard a big kid at the fountain ordering a large lemonade for a [...]
21Apr2011 | Roger Koopman | 8 comments | ContinuedAn Impossible Job
Conventional wisdom has it that the more complex a nation’s economy, the more government oversight and regulation are needed to keep it from spinning out of control. It follows that government must grow in size and complexity along with the economy. Apparently, however, our government has become so vast and complex that it may have [...]
24Feb2011 | Richard W. Fulmer | 2 comments | Continued“Big Meat” and Big Government
Inviting authoritarian oversight into your competitor’s business always seems like a good idea at the time, but when the same authorities start pounding on your door the notion loses some of its charm.
14Feb2011 | Paul Schwennesen | 5 comments | ContinuedSafe Food at Any Cost
More regulations always have the effect of reducing the number of operators in the regulated sector.
7Feb2011 | Paul Schwennesen | 13 comments | Continued-
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