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...nteresting and important. No ‘objective’ account is possible. For most people – including many economists – this is not a controversial claim. ...ing’, ‘all sellers sell identical goods for the same price’ , and ‘people doing the same work get the same wages’ in the labour market. However, no

...y practice of slavery. How dare the feds suggest that they must pay black people rather than keep them as slaves? What an unwarranted federal interference

...gain, the political implications are obvious should large numbers of young people absorb that point of view. ...t some (even mainstream) economists are actually doing these days. Lots of people have been working on models of economic growth, some of them using Schumpet

...view governments as an impediment to the freer flow of goods, capital, and people around the world. Prevent domestic policymakers from intervening with their The same surveys indicate that younger people, the highly educated, and those who identify themselves as upper class, are

...this means you can easily have a large "state space." Also, the thing that people optimize (their "objective function") may be very complicated; in principle 6. The assumption that risk preferences can be entirely modeled using people's utility of consumption, and that this utility can be modeled using a smal

...he least regulation and oversight does the most to take advantage of young people. The "troubled teen industry" has abused hundreds of thousands of teens and ...e Stop Child Abuse in Residential Programs for Teens Act and protect young people.

...ably prove that Government interferes with the 'spontaneous order' of free people. * Gang rape is democracy. Five people say "Yes," one person says "No," and the majority rules. Which is why gang

* Paternalism is the worst thing that can be inflicted upon people, as everyone knows that fathers are the most hated and reviled figures in t ...rsy by civil lawsuit over damages. The US doesn't have enough lawyers, and people who can't afford to invest many thousands of dollars in lawsuits should shu

* Libertarians are more logical than others. While other people's arguments merely imply the contrapositive, libertarian arguments imply th ...ople are too selfish... private charity will take care of everyone because people are generous.

...anging. But I'd be willing to bet that different macro policies can change people's risk aversion. If that's the case, then using microfoundations doesn't re 3. In the hard sciences, when dealing with complex systems people have often used higher-level, aggregative concepts that seem to work empiri

...aning the body of Christ and, by extension, the bodies of all the faithful people. Christianity and Judaism both teach that the human body is made "in the im ...es, in a funny way, and they see colored price tags. There was a time when people spoke, at least occasionally, of "inherent worth"—if not of things, then

...ndler), and a lifelong Wichita friend of Charles Koch… [and] a couple of people with public profiles that make the jaw drop: ...will prevail in the courts. Maybe not. I’m not a lawyer, but our legal people think we’ve got a stronger case than they do. Regardless, as you well no

...he State had a rightful beginning in a Contract of Subjection to which the People was party…. Indeed that the legal title to all Rulership lies in the volu ...as a mere concession of its use and exercise. … On the one hand from the people’s abdication the most absolute sovereignty of the prince might be deduced

...scovering for the first time that they are in fact merely a proxy army for people who don't take them or their worldview seriously at all." | show=}} ...scovering for the first time that they are in fact merely a proxy army for people who don't take them or their worldview seriously at all.

...spontaneously arise? Instead, a federal government has arisen. Maybe the people of Somalia's experience with no government shows why government is desirabl

...re also subjected to abuses and made to witness the assault and killing of people considered by the al-Shabab as its enemies while other children spoken with With the use of the children of these deprived people as soldiers, their conditions have just been made worse.

But what about technological innovation, which, like trade, often leaves some people worse off. Here, few students would condone blocking technological progress ...some. When, on the other hand, the forces of trade repeatedly hit the same people – less educated, blue-collar workers – we may feel less sanguine about

...ld. With only 303 voting delegates, it was also notably uncrowded; by most people's memories this was the smallest LP convention since the mid-1970s. Yet thi ...and threats to public health and national security" standards for allowing people in; that "marriage and other personal relationships are treated as private

voluntary and contractual relations among individuals. People should exclusion of moral approval and disapproval is deliberate: people's