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{{List|Libertarians understand economics better than people with other political positions. Especially liberals.|links=true}} {{Quotations|Libertarians understand economics better than people with other political positions. Especially liberals.|quotes=true}}

{{Quotations|With 2.3 Million People Incarcerated in the US, Prisons Are Big Business|quotes=true}} ...ks translate into higher phone rates for family members—usually the very people who can least afford it. Like the vast majority of those who pass through t

... incorrect statement based on an erroneous Constitutional interpretation. People, US states, and the US federal government all have both rights and powers. {{List|People Have Rights. States Have Powers.|links=true}}

{{URL | url = http://www.businessinsider.com/rich-people-create-jobs-2013-11}} {{DES | des = "So, if rich people do not create the jobs, what does? A healthy economic ecosystem -- one in

...oam]], and [[Robert McChesney|Robert W. McChesney]]. 1999. ''[[Profit Over People: Neoliberalism & Global Order]]''. Seven Stories Press.}} {{List|title=Profit Over People: Neoliberalism & Global Order|links=true}}

... [[Jeffrey Clements|Clements, Jeffrey D.]]. 2012. ''[[Corporations Are Not People: Why They Have More Rights Than You Do and What You Can Do About It]]''. Be ...he rights of things, money and corporations matter more than the rights of people, America has faced a crisis of democracy... Jeff Clements describes the str

... 2004. ''[[Secrets of Libertarian Persuasion: Discover the Keys to Opening People's Hearts and Minds to Liberty]]''. Advocates for Self Government.}} {{List|title=Secrets of Libertarian Persuasion: Discover the Keys to Opening People's Hearts and Minds to Liberty|links=true}}

...[[Jonathan Haidt|Haidt, Jonathan]]. 2013. ''[[The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion]]''. Vintage.}} {{List|title=The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion|links=true}}

{{Chicago | Chicago = [[Peter Irons|Irons, Peter]]. 1999. ''[[A People's History of the Supreme Court]]''. Viking Adult.}} {{List|title=A People's History of the Supreme Court|links=true}}

...go | Chicago = [[Gary Klein|Klein, Gary]]. 1999. ''[[Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions]]''. The MIT Press.}} {{List|title=Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions|links=true}}

{{Chicago | Chicago = [[William Novak|Novak, William J.]]. 1996. ''[[People's Welfare]]''. The University of North Carolina Press.}} {{List|title=People's Welfare|links=true}}

...ike Konopacki|Mike Konopacki]], and [[Paul Buhle|Paul Buhle]]. 2008. ''[[A People's History of American Empire]]''. Metropolitan Books.}} {{List|title=A People's History of American Empire|links=true}}

{{Chicago | Chicago = [[Howard Zinn|Zinn, Howard]]. 1995. ''[[A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present]]''. Perennial.}} {{List|title=A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present|links=true}}

{{List|title=Imposing options on people in poverty: the harm of a live donor organ market|links=true}} {{Quotations|title=Imposing options on people in poverty: the harm of a live donor organ market|quotes=true}}

...e that a [[Basic Income]] program would be beneficial for growth and allow people to "take chances on more meaningful and ultimately more valuable work." | s {{List|title=VC for the people|links=true}}

{{List|title=Thrown Out of Court: How corporations became people you can't sue.|links=true}} {{Quotations|title=Thrown Out of Court: How corporations became people you can't sue.|quotes=true}}

{{URL | url = http://whynationsfail.com/blog/2014/8/15/do-people-really-dislike-the-state-so-much-with-thanks-to-jo.html}} ...a State]]": "Rather than fleeing from the state and resisting it, ordinary people are demanding the expansion of its authority in order to attain freedom fro

...rl = http://blog.lindau-nobel.org/daniel-mcfadden-understanding-better-how-people-really-make-choices/}} ...obel laureate Daniel McFadden that throws doubt on the classical idea that people are driven by relentless and consistent pursuit of self-interest to maximis

{{URL | url = http://crooksandliars.com/2014/11/85-richest-people-planet-now-have-much}} {{List|title=The 85 Richest People On The Planet Now Have As Much Money As The Poorest 3.5 Billion|links=true}

| cite = Billionaire investor [[Warren Buffett]], in "{{Link |The 85 Richest People On The Planet Now Have As Much Money As The Poorest 3.5 Billion}}"

{{List|title=Cuba: A health system designed to serve to health of the people, not the profit of a few|links=true}} {{Quotations|title=Cuba: A health system designed to serve to health of the people, not the profit of a few|quotes=true}}

.../did_you_notice_the_the_people_who_seem_to_believe/ Did you notice the the people who seem to believe in the efficiency of voluntary charity alone to the nee

....org/equitablog/regional-policy-and-distributional-policy-in-a-world-where-people-want-to-ignore-the-value-and-contribution-of-knowledge-and-network-based-in {{List|title=Regional Policy and Distributional Policy in a World Where People Want to Ignore the Value and Contribution of Knowledge and Network-Based In

| text = This wish to believe that you are not a moocher is what keeps people from seeing issues of distribution and allocation clearly -- and generates ...ong]], "{{Link |Regional Policy and Distributional Policy in a World Where People Want to Ignore the Value and Contribution of Knowledge and Network-Based In

...d reinforce our social bonds by establishing patterns of “owing” other people and by “being owed”. We want to enter into reciprocal gift-exchange rel ...ong]], "{{Link |Regional Policy and Distributional Policy in a World Where People Want to Ignore the Value and Contribution of Knowledge and Network-Based In

{{URL | url = https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-02-09/people-actually-use-food-stamps-to-buy-more-food}} {{List|title=People Actually Use Food Stamps to Buy More Food|links=true}}

...hl|Rydahl, Malene]]. 2017. ''[[Happy as a Dane: 10 Secrets of the Happiest People in the World]]''. W. W. Norton & Company.}} {{List|title=Happy as a Dane: 10 Secrets of the Happiest People in the World|links=true}}

...wonk/wp/2017/06/15/kansas-conservative-experiment-may-have-gone-worse-than-people-thought/}} Kansas’s conservative experiment may have gone worse than people thought|links=true}}

{{URL | url = http://evonomics.com/people-dont-actually-want-equality-want-fairness/}} ... of [[Harry Frankfurt ]]'s book ''[[On Inequality]]'' that points out that people are not bothered by inequality itself: they are bothered by unfairness that

... knew that some facial recognition systems struggle to accurately identify people with darker skin. Now we know that many of the artificially intelligent sys {{List|title=Self-Driving Cars May Hit People With Darker Skin More Often|links=true}}

...hillips, Leigh]], and [[Michal Rozworski|Michal Rozworski]]. 2019. ''[[The People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Corporations are Laying the {{List|title=The People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Corporations are Laying the

...L | url = https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-12-06/a-nation-s-people-offer-the-best-return-on-investment}} {{List|title=A Nation’s People Offer the Best Return on Investment|links=true}}

{{List|title=The Poison Squad: The American People Had No Idea What They Were Eating|links=true}} {{Quotations|title=The Poison Squad: The American People Had No Idea What They Were Eating|quotes=true}}

...and choose the wrong track deliberately, you cannot be said to have killed people. Until then, the responsibly for the deaths is due to the situation that c patients with AIDS. But claiming that 16,000 people die a year from P.carinii because there was no Septra is bogus, (a) because

{{URL | url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/heres-why-poor-people-are-poor-says-a-conservative-black-academic/2015/09/03/df8ff1fc-1ab4-11e5-9 {{List|title=Here’s why poor people are poor, says a conservative black academic|links=true}}

...LL people should have. All people should have the [[Four Freedoms]]. All people should have education, medical care, food, clothing, housing. Who should b

...s in Chindia reflects the culture, intelligence and investing savvy of the people in these countries. The West doesn’t get it, and it is their loss.

...as a source of coercion, but it is not. Coercion is an inherent ability of people that cannot be eliminated and is pervasive through almost all social intera Why do people prattle about "as if an invisible hand" when it is government

...rty rights. Libertarians applaud initiation of physical aggression against people who commit fraud, even though it is a voluntary act between two parties.

So you can see, libertarianism can attract two types of people:

... of their organizations. None of us, however, is backing down. Among young people, in fact, we’ve already won. Mises held that ideas can beat back the stat

[[Category:People|Koch]]

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[[Category:People|FriedmanM]]

What do they hope will happen after people read the book? How many people need to cooperate to make--efficiently make--a pencil?

down to parlor tricks to try to convince people that the foundations are solid. Hume's fallacy of the derivation of ought from is still catches most people. There is no direct ought: there is only what we desire. We can make cons

[[Category:People|Nozick]]

[[Category:People|Mises]]

[[Category:People|Hayek]]

...an then reformulate or reject these arguments. This is also needed to help people place libertarianism and its arguments in context. It is very hard to find Small wonder many people are not interested in entering "discussions" with evangelists! They're like

[[Category:People|Boettke]]

The Bank of Sweden people probably thought that Becker went a little too far here, so they subsumed t ...ldren themselves are. There are many good non-economic explanations of why people have children -- religious duty, family duty, community spirit, love, etc -

...first-class citizens]] (large corporations and the very rich) and ordinary people. | show=}}

...hypothetical country split between the “tallists”, who think only tall people should have political power, and the “shortists”, who believe such powe ...allists because we think the whole dichotomy is stupid – we should elect people based on qualities like their intelligence and leadership and morality. Kno

{{DES | des = What people say about libertarianism.}}

...l rhetorical tool; as long as you don't start getting specific. Different people have different ideas of liberty, and can divide over those issues. The def ...oss the country, the cry "Liberty!" filled the air. But what liberty? Few people claim to be anti-liberty, but the word "liberty" has many meanings. Should

... in the world, or you think it is more important to preserve the rights of people who own property. You can hum and haw as much as you like about whether the

...r instance, that a store owner should be able to refuse to serve all black people because he doesn't like them. They often claim that the "free market" would ...e such. When it is pointed out that things were not so wonderful for black people or women, they tend to shrug this off. Non-whites and women apparently don'

[[Category:People|RothbardM]]

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People want and need positive liberty. Some libertarians, such as [[Tyler Cowen]]

...rtarian]] and [[Free Market|free market]] part of the thinking of ordinary people. Most libertarians have no idea how they are manipulated by this perversio

...s process, a technique employed consciously or unconsciously to direct the people. Gradually, as this process continues, the whole language becomes despoiled

...environment where wealth accumulates in the hands of an elite leaving most people in poverty, deeply vulnerable to the inevitable economic shocks that follow

... anthropology and sociology confirms the variation in ideas of rights that people call natural. ... if natural rights are simply individual desires, then there are plenty of people who desire to steal your property, rape your wife and murder your children.

{{DES | des = [[R. J. Rummel]]'s term for "killing of any person or people by a government, including genocide, politicide and mass murder". It conve

... whatever they want. Some people have liberties to do some things. Other people have illiberties, are prohibited from doing other things. ...t?" We already have an existing state of liberty, a set of things various people are free or not free to do. Libertarians want a different set, that we co

...edom, but seldom define it well. Freedom is the practical ability to stop people from interfering with your activities. This is a positive, active, costly d ...ct because they are rooted in your ability to take coercive action to stop people from interfering with your activities. We create government to regulate the

... not coercive only because they are in favor of it. Sorry, aiming guns at people is coercive no matter what your justification. The NAP is sometimes presented as: "Don’t hit people, don’t take their stuff. The basic rule of all civilized societies." That

... We choose public [[government]] to perform our desired coercion, because people are too partial to their own interests to be trusted. | show=}}

...: at best we can get more accurate and intersubjective (meaning that other people make similar observations. Claims of observing objective reality by [[Obje

...as strong an epithet as libertarians have: but it doesn't bother us normal people who recognize that states are essential and beneficial. Even some libertar

...rm of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying it’s f ... doesn’t serve its proper end--to effect the safety and happiness of the people--it could be torn down and replaced with one that would. "The equal rights

...merable exceptions must be carved out to prevent conflict, to reflect what people actually care about and to keep enforcement costs down. A better topologic

...ollapse of society, thereby inevitably killing millions if not billions of people, is portrayed as a messiah figure rather than as a genocidal prick, which i

...ayoff system is that we can design society to concentrate rewards to a few people, or disperse them among many.

...rians hate it and regard it as a type of fraud. There are even a good many people on the left who despise fractional reserve banking as an evil institution. ...nerally became the norm. In order for such bank runs to have occurred many people must have understood at some level that the banks do not operate on a 100-p

...xists at most to protect people’s rights, and should neither provide for people nor punish them for activities that interfere with no one else.” [1] Th

Aristocratism is another matter. People find fascination in displays of affluence and influence; e.g., Lifestyles o ...t as clearly, many of the founders of "dynasties" have been otherwise fine people, inventive and keen-minded, who won their initial status through creative e

Broad areas of disagreement appear to evaporate when people are encouraged to leave behind the details of our 20th Century struggles, a ...ia which elicits pleased responses from most Americans I describe it to... people of such diverse political backgrounds that I feel certain the image harkens

...re are many other questions which might illuminate the opinions of diverse people heretofore trapped by the old, linear (left v. right) model. The objective For example, you can tell a lot about people by asking what they think of Robin Hood, Galileo, Henry VIII, Czar Nicholas

...r trapped behind the blinkers of narrow self interest." When pressed, most people will admit that their opponents must feel the same way in reverse. Only, of ...t venerable of all hoary icons – one accepted almost without question by people of nearly every political persuasion – and one that is demonstrably absur

...nt ventures... dump of mercury in the... general stock of water from which people privately draw.) Awesome huh? But it gets better. Now wish that everyone ha Let's climb into the wayback machine, and let's bring some people back to Reason's 35th anniversary banquet:

...d shut cases. Almost always, there are tradeoffs involved, and reasonable people can disagree on the conclusion because they have different values. What tr

...ndeed they were common sense until recently. Nowadays, though, most of the people who call themselves "conservatives" have little notion of what conservatism ...en people who have tried to constitute themselves as an aristocracy. These people and their allies are the conservatives.

... concept and nothing else; it is a convenience for designating a number of people." ...ver?” What else than an agency selected and acting by the consent of the people, an agency that enacts and administers laws to the benefit of all, an agenc

...s you hear a lot about how the Internet is going to transform society, and people living in it, more than any innovation since the printing press. Beyond all How do real people behave, when confronted by opportunities and capabilities they never imagin

Thus, no sending people to category pages or having category pages redirect to regular pages. You

... less it conforms to reality. For example, if I say the sky is blue, most people would agree. But is it blue at night? On a cloudy day? When it is filled [http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2011/02/robert-murphy-joins-the-reasonable-people-differ-about-whether-it-would-be-moral-to-tax-americans-to-destroy-an-aster

...resume liberty and property as the measure of good and bad. They scoff at people with different values.

...ir eyes, or waving their hands and saying “natural”? The fact is that people do not and cannot know anything about the nature of rights or the propriety

...roperty of others that we view is denied to us by government. As business people, we cannot threaten nor cheat lest government punish us. That is why we ar Why do people prattle about "as if an invisible hand" when it is government alone that vi

...with cell phone cameras documenting the display, the uproar was immediate. People were infuriated by United’s resort to brutality, by the use of law enforc ...deregulation appeared to work as predicted. A rush of low-cost brands like People Express and Air Florida took on the majors. Prices did go down—although s

... younger generations will never collect their social security. Offer such people $100 to sign over all future social security benefits. If they are so cert

...el is perfect, and it is easy to assemble a list of problems and a list of people describing those problems. But the fallacy is to use this list to denounce ...es what they actually said, and doesn't have his own coherent answer. Few people notice these tactics.

[[Category:People|Cowen]]

...ick. Why would he do this? Simple class warfare tactics: if you convince people that wealth is not there, instead of being redistributed to the rich, they ... society in which money is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few people, and in which that concentration of income and wealth threatens to make us

...Free to Choose” to illustrate the power of markets. It took thousands of people all over the world to make this pencil, Friedman said – to mine the graph

...ng prices artificially high. But viewing progressivism by its history and people, rather than by its basic objective, causes a "can't see the forest for the

...on to corporatocracy. Has a good list of historical political actions and people. | show=}} ...governance "of the people, by the people, for the people", the phrase "the people" here standing in sharpest contrast to governance by the corporation, or ra

== Few People Have Libertarian Preferences == ...because libertarianism is based on valuing "liberty" above all else. Most people are more realistic and essentially value practical living above freedom to

... by Habermas and Apel (Rothbard 1988, p. 45). They con- tend that whenever people are engaged in debate, they have implic- itly agreed to a certain set of no People should not have full ownership of their bodies, as libertar- ian theorists

[[Category:People|Hoppe]]

...f demand are. That in turn depends on who gets the income, and on what the people who get the income value as technological change proceeds.

...rising inequality, combined with a healthy skepticism of what Very Serious People say — is far more important than any differences, especially given just h

Progressivism has often been defined by its history and people. The history of progressivism is usually a list of issues that progressives Viewing progressivism by its history and people, rather than by its basic objective, causes a "can't see the forest for the

... society in which money is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few people, and in which that concentration of income and wealth threatens to make us ...turbing than the picture of a nation in which a much smaller group of rich people is becoming increasingly dominant. But it’s not true.

Yes, this post is not about economics at all. Instead, I refer people to the peculiar spectacle of the Austrian Robert P. Murphy defending his Ch

... To me this is so obvious that I am hard put to find something to say to people who still think libertarianism has something to do with liberty. A libertar ...eviously market terrain, or its acceptance by the overwhelming majority of people including its demonstrable victims.

...es, not entirely unrealistic? I.e. Aren’t there, just as Winch suggests, people in most firms who actually do engage in activities that could very roughly ...them to come to see themselves and their fellow buyers and sellers etc. as people too. In other words, the task is then a political and ethical -- and a fran

...cording to Friedman. But the truth is, rather, this: We can understand why people do things because we inhabit, vicariously or sometimes literally, their pla ...viouristically, to deal merely with their revealed preferences (i.e., what people actually do, which is ‘directly observable’); not to attempt to establi

...been before, or (b), loans money to a bank, who will then loan it to other people who will then spend it. Importantly, the people on the other end of those transactions did not just get free money. They ei

...free from the corporeal strictures of paper and metal, what’s to prevent people from copying and pasting it as easily as a chunk of text, “spending” it ...aken over the role of lead developer, was now apparently one of just a few people with whom he was still communicating. On April 26, Andresen told fellow cod

ANDREW: Some people say that you represent a fringe view, and so interviewing you is a waste of CODE NAME CAIN: If people obsessed with inside-the-Beltway conventional wisdom underestimate libertar

...t in order to make your revolution happen, you will have to convince other people as well. Are you going to try to get a majority of U.S. voters to support t ... the world can anyone expect that a majority of an increasingly degenerate people accustomed to the “right” to vote should ever voluntarily renounce [it]

{{DES | des = There are many alternative ideas which people find superior to libertarianism. | show=}}

3: Assign Value to Other People ...d make a difference to the real world, and that we should care about other people. Other moral systems are more concerned with looking good than being good,

...om Europe and Latin America, to suggest shifting the focus from locking up people to public health and “harm reduction” (such as encouraging addicts to u

(1) Another generation of young people is persuaded that heroin addiction is temporary. They are falsely assured t ...shocking, of course, to think of tens of thousands of newly addicted young people and of addicted Vietnam veterans taking a narcotic such as methadone daily,

...ovided by competing insurance companies. What will happen if two different people, covered by two different security GLOs, disagree about what their rights a CODE NAME CAIN: The two people would find an independent arbitrator that would be the unanimous choice of

... first security GLOs were noblemen, and they got their power because other people recognized their superior leadership qualities. These nobles were basically ...nd masters were obeyed because their serfs and slaves recognized that some people were naturally superior to others – but then some GLOs came in and starte

...ublicly recognized as being a cut above the ordinary person. Have the rich people and corporate leaders of today also risen to the top by being natural leade ...Hence they are often more dependent on the state’s continued favors than people of far lesser wealth… Their conduct is not marked by special virtue, dign

...t of people will be effectively slaves in a rights-respecting manner. Some people will be effectively killed in a rights-respecting manner. Why are you dedic ANDREW: You talk almost as if lower-class people were so different from productive geniuses that they form a separate subspe

...y rights advocates have appropriated a term that was already being used by people who subscribe to the idea that property is theft, and that these property r Fairly or not, most people today think of right-libertarians when they hear the word libertarian, and

...predictions” after 2002 are not even predictions at all: they represent people identifying an existing asset bubble that was becoming worse. ...res about providing the maximum and best housing for the maximum number of people, one must consider a free-market approach in association with a sound non-d

[[Category:People|Paul, Ron]]

...avors from government, he was acting like he could (and he wanted to) plan people's lives, he was a jerk to Hayek, he was on the side of the cronies and croo

... probability.Keynes includes interval probability as the main way in which people use probability.Tenth,"For a comparison of Keynes and Richard von Mises, se

...conditionally — encourages an increasingly polarized discussion in which people choose sides based on pre-existing ideological commitments rather than on a

...inal monopoly on the use of physical violence, there is plenty of room for people to be oppressed by such intermediate powers, whom I call "local bullies." ...can, under certain conditions, get together and effectively prohibit black people from being able to go out to dinner in their own city. In a libertarian wor

...tarians like to claim only government limits liberty. But that's not what people experience. First world government is actually a minor source of repression

These "people" are not healthy ...evenues and profits, with no regard for ethical issues that might nag real people.

The first task is to employ all of our people and end unemployment as we know it. We must commit our societies to the g ...we stupidly deprive ourselves of the productive efforts of many unemployed people who are willing to work. The existence of needless mass unemployment with

...the privacy, I’ll say that even in the company of other like-minded rich people, he displayed rather a mania for honest dealing. [bold mine--M.A.] ...owners, in which case it’s part of some paranoid rightwing plat to screw people. Yeah, that’s it.

...st-only mortgages (which are said to create the housing bubble by allowing people to borrow "too much" and forcing up home prices). ...ong rant against "credit snobs" - those of us who thought loaning money to people who couldn't afford to repay their loans - Tabarrok writes: