Daily Economy
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Slavery Did Not Make America Richer
A close and careful look at the empirical record reveals that one cannot infer that America was made richer from slavery. It is even clear that America was made poorer by slavery.
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The Best Lack Conviction; The Worst Have Passionate Intensity
Human beings have contradictory impulses. On the one hand, we want to be “free”; on the other, we want to be led, and by a powerful and charismatic leader.
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The Way Not to Fix Education, Housing, and Health Care
The proposed remedy, of course, is always government intervention — a remedy, alas, that is destined to fail.
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How Capitalist-Abolitionists Fought Slavery
A capitalist benefactor of the American abolitionist movement used his business to wage war against slavery. He ended up revolutionizing the American financial industry in the process.
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Massachusetts’ Addiction to Regulation Keeps Most Pot Sales on the Black Market
Massachusetts has not legalized cannabis products so much as entered the drug market via a handful of chosen franchisees, with the extra competitive advantage that you could be fined or jailed if you buy from the competition. Let freedom ring.
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George S. Schuyler, Anti-Racist Champion of Liberty
Throughout his career as a writer and journalist, which spanned from the 1920s to the 1970s, Schuyler was scathing in his analysis and relentless in his criticisms of white racism in the America of his time.
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Coercion in Government Employment
Unions love exclusive representation. They fought hard to secure it, and they will fight just as hard to preserve it.
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Economics Science Had Late-Scholastic Origins (Podcast)
Economics as a science began to take shape in the late Middle Ages as theologians began to come to terms with laws operating within the material world to enhance human well being.
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An Answer to the Pope, a Leader of Libertarianism’s Critics
Pope Francis has been consistently against capitalism and not just capitalism; his target since at least 2014 has been the whole system of human liberty insofar as it impacts commercial life.
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Rothbard’s First Impressions on Free Banking in Scotland Were Correct
Nothing in Rothbard’s later view manages to cast doubt on his earlier view and White’s thesis, much less refute them.
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Slavery Did Not Make America Richer
A close and careful look at the empirical record reveals that one cannot infer that America was made richer from slavery. It is even clear that America was made poorer by slavery.
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•
The Best Lack Conviction; The Worst Have Passionate Intensity
Human beings have contradictory impulses. On the one hand, we want to be “free”; on the other, we want to be led, and by a powerful and charismatic leader.
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•
The Way Not to Fix Education, Housing, and Health Care
The proposed remedy, of course, is always government intervention — a remedy, alas, that is destined to fail.
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•
How Capitalist-Abolitionists Fought Slavery
A capitalist benefactor of the American abolitionist movement used his business to wage war against slavery. He ended up revolutionizing the American financial industry in the process.
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Massachusetts’ Addiction to Regulation Keeps Most Pot Sales on the Black Market
Massachusetts has not legalized cannabis products so much as entered the drug market via a handful of chosen franchisees, with the extra competitive advantage that you could be fined or jailed if you buy from the competition. Let freedom ring.
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•
George S. Schuyler, Anti-Racist Champion of Liberty
Throughout his career as a writer and journalist, which spanned from the 1920s to the 1970s, Schuyler was scathing in his analysis and relentless in his criticisms of white racism in the America of his time.
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Coercion in Government Employment
Unions love exclusive representation. They fought hard to secure it, and they will fight just as hard to preserve it.
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•
Economics Science Had Late-Scholastic Origins (Podcast)
Economics as a science began to take shape in the late Middle Ages as theologians began to come to terms with laws operating within the material world to enhance human well being.
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•
An Answer to the Pope, a Leader of Libertarianism’s Critics
Pope Francis has been consistently against capitalism and not just capitalism; his target since at least 2014 has been the whole system of human liberty insofar as it impacts commercial life.
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•
Rothbard’s First Impressions on Free Banking in Scotland Were Correct
Nothing in Rothbard’s later view manages to cast doubt on his earlier view and White’s thesis, much less refute them.