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The biggest problem with expert accountability is that there isn't any. People turn on their televisions, or read their newspapers and blogs, to hear what ...s professor (and Mercatus Center CEO) Tyler Cowen into a minor celebrity. People turn to him for his expertise. Indeed, the Mercatus Center calls him an ex

People are only allowed the temporary security afforded by capitalizing a portion ...) "slave labor." But we are discussing volun­tary self-enslavement, i.e., people's sale of their labor by the "lifetime" (that is, up to some specified reti

...ering from persistent instability. Instead of waiting for God's judgement, people – to the amazement of the "Austrians" – still resist walking calmly to ...uch tortured jewels as: "the people are too stupid to understand," or "the people are entitled to nothing," and other too-vulgar-or-racist-to-repeat sentimen

Ah, yes. The powerless. When I think of people who are powerless in Washington DC—a city with a child poverty rate near ...orts to reduce gun crime in an impoverished black city. It was as if those people and that problem simply didn’t exist.

...ll is a sick joke without robust civil liberties for all. Conversely, most people want their civil liberties partly so that they can earn a living and enjoy ...dia predisposed to be against two of Barack Obama’s political opponents. People on the right should frown upon those sorts of actions. If Cato is to die, i

Suggested Retort: "If my theory violates an accounting identity, wouldn't people have noticed that before? Wouldn't this fact be common knowledge?" Example: "But if your model could predict financial crises, then people could use it to conduct a riskless arbitrage; therefore, by the EMH, your m

...y on only one value, private property (which they conflate with liberty.) People with other values will be burdened by having to pay for them. | show=}}

Libertarianism is the single-minded defense of liberty. Many young people flock to libertarianism out of the thrill of defending such a valiant cause

...are of national income going to capital and human capital (highly educated people) is rising on a broad front, fueling increasing concentration of wealth. ...ovation), seems essential to meeting the needs, hopes, and expectations of people everywhere. Indeed, that is the key to addressing sustainability, to which

...easuring GDP, government services are measured by what they cost, not what people payed for them. They could be worth more than they cost, and they could be

...to USTA supporters. 'The medicine we're prescribing doesn't taste good and people are only going to take it when they have no choice.'"

... | des = Much libertarianism is a front for or pipeline to very right wing people and organizations. | show=}}

...rly. Instead, the vulgar libertarian "logic" simply identifies that other people don't hold the same values or premises. See also [[Homo economicus]]. | sh

...ier if their government in Nashville restricts their ability to trade with people in Kentucky, Texas, Rhode Island, and other states?... ...s ridiculous on its face to suppose that such protectionism would make the people of Tennessee as a group wealthier over time...

... “libertarian” did become broader than anarchism, it was still used by people on the left who aimed for socialism. ...ecovered by those anti-authoritarians . . . who try to speak for dominated people as a whole, not for personal egotists who identify freedom with entrepreneu

...tivists to prevent discrimination, to uphold political freedom, to protect people from inhumane conduct in wartime, and to bring offenders to justice. We inv

...dations. It’s pretty genius. After all, the Koch bros. can’t just pick people up off the street and send them into DC’s best lobbying firms to protect

... Choice theory is more empirically realistic. Studies have shown that many people do act irrationally, but not economists – to the extent possible, their d ...economic theory is substantial, while the benefits are dispersed over many people and so are comparatively small. In any case, the efforts of one person are

...king it by force is bad. But we shouldn’t give it back to the indigenous people from whom it was initially stolen. ...ee market’ policies is an end in itself – it doesn’t matter how many people suffer.

... favour domestic redistribution! You nationalist, look at all the starving people in Africa! What? No, we shouldn’t redistribute to them either. ...ything is subjective and individualistic. But it doesn’t matter how free people feel, we will use my definition of freedom and impose it on them.