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Below you'll find a list of all posts from May, 2012

Living Economics; Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Professor Boettke of George Mason University and the Mercatus Center has recently released his latest book entitled "Living Economics" and …

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Agricultural subsidies should be off the table

In simple terms subsidies are a waste of taxpayer dollars. The Bahamas has seen no end of ideas to protect …

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We Can Cut Government: Canada Did.

Chris Edwards, Director, Tax Policy Studies and Editor, www.DownsizingGovernment.org at the Cato Institute has just released a new Cato Policy …

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The Undemanding Ethics of Capitalism

From the Cato Journal, Vol. 29, No. 3. Copyright © Cato Institute. All rights reserved. William A. Niskanen is Senior …

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Economic Freedom and Entrepreneurship

The Mercatus Center at George Mason University released this Working Paper recently and the research findings are worth consideration. They …

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Is Barack Obama a Socialist?

In a TV interview Governor Mitt Romney was asked “Do you think that President Obama is a Socialist?”. This sounds …

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Cafe Hayek’s Don Boudreaux on his new book and the state of economic literacy

 Find out more about the book here… Visit Professor Boudreaux’s web site, Cafe Hayek, here… Visit reason.tv here…

The Clash of Economic Ideas: The Great Policy Debates and Experiments of the Last Hundred Years

If you are interested in learning about economics here’s a great place to start. Here’s the introduction from the Mercatus …

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The Progress of Freedom: The Future of the Movement

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So, I would argue that the services have been I think disappointing is putting it mildly. They've been disastrous. They've been appallingly bad. Much worse than would have existed, even if no welfare state had been created. In fact I would argue especially if no welfare state had been created, because the systems that existed before were very substantial and growing and improving dramatically. But they weren't perfect, and that is in a way is the great trouble with the development of welfare states. You have a system that's not perfect but actually doing quite a lot of good stuff and then someone comes along and says, "ah, we can make this perfection. And so we can make this much better. We will have free for everybody, high class whatever it is." And the result is you have lower standards and it doesn't work out at all. And that's, the desire for perfection can be very dangerous.James Bartholomew
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There is, in fact, only one solution: the state, the government, the laws must not in any way concern themselves with schooling or education. Public funds must not be used for such purposes. The rearing and instruction of youth must be left entirely to parents and to private associations and institutions.Ludwig Von Mises
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