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Tag Archives: free
LASIK Technology and Interventionism
If we had a free market in health care, instead of spending $4,000 on lasik, it might have only cost me in the hundreds. Continue reading
Advocates of Reason: 16 August 2010
Some links, and commentary on those links. Continue reading
Posted in Links
Tagged apocalypse, Capitalism, Cowen, free, Higgs, Hyperinflation, Kling, market, parking, Schumpeter, wenzel
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Everything Comes Down to Banking Theory
Robert Murphy is one of the more active Austrians involved in using the Depression of 1920 as a vindication of Austrian monetary theory. I decided to scour his blog in search of posts related to his research on the subject. … Continue reading
Selgin’s “Theory of Free Banking” Available Online!
George Selgin’s “The Theory of Free Banking” is now available for free online. Continue reading
Leviathan Contra Leviathan
The New York Times argues that it was only thanks to government that slavery was abolished. Let’s remember that slavery was a government institution. Continue reading
Price as a Rationing Device
Price gouging is a service to the needy consumer, not an economic evil. Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous
Tagged controls, coordination, distribution, free, gouging, market, price, rationing
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Stimulating Confusion
Stiglitz on global stimulus. Continue reading
Stiglitz Does it Again!
I read my first book by Joseph Stiglitz last semester. I read Making Globalization Work. I will admit that it is absolute junk, and absolutely horrible to read, but since then I have become addicted to his writing. It just … Continue reading
Haiti: Two Hundred Tragic Years
Haiti, in the long-term, needs a government which supports the free-market, property rights and entrepreneurship. In other words, Haiti needs to move towards liberty and laissez-faire, otherwise it will remain susceptible to continued tragedies. Continue reading
Posted in Current Events
Tagged earthquake, entrepreneuship, free, Government, Haiti, Investment, market, prosperity, tyranny, Wealth
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Solutions that Hold Water
Only the free market, through its unfettered price mechanism, can distribute resources without creating a shortage. This goes for water as it does for any other scarce commodity. Continue reading →