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  • ...LL people should have. All people should have the [[Four Freedoms]]. All people should have education, medical care, food, clothing, housing. Who should b
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  • ...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.
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  • ...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
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  • ...rty rights. Libertarians applaud initiation of physical aggression against people who commit fraud, even though it is a voluntary act between two parties.
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  • So you can see, libertarianism can attract two types of people:
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  • ... 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
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  • [[Category:People|Koch]]
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  • This is a testing page, for a simple resource in the [[People]] and [[Charles and David Koch]] categories.
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  • [[Category:People|FriedmanM]]
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  • What do they hope will happen after people read the book? How many people need to cooperate to make--efficiently make--a pencil?
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  • 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
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  • [[Category:People|Nozick]]
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  • [[Category:People|Mises]]
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  • [[Category:People|Hayek]]
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  • ...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
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  • [[Category:People|Boettke]]
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  • 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 -
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  • ...first-class citizens]] (large corporations and the very rich) and ordinary people. | show=}}
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  • ...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
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  • {{DES | des = What people say about libertarianism.}}
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  • ...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
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  • ... 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
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  • ...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'
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  • [[Category:People|RothbardM]]
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  • People want and need positive liberty. Some libertarians, such as [[Tyler Cowen]]
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  • ...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
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  • ...s process, a technique employed consciously or unconsciously to direct the people. Gradually, as this process continues, the whole language becomes despoiled
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  • ...environment where wealth accumulates in the hands of an elite leaving most people in poverty, deeply vulnerable to the inevitable economic shocks that follow
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  • ... 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.
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  • {{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
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  • ... 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
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  • ...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
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  • ... 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
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  • ... We choose public [[government]] to perform our desired coercion, because people are too partial to their own interests to be trusted. | show=}}
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  • ...: at best we can get more accurate and intersubjective (meaning that other people make similar observations. Claims of observing objective reality by [[Obje
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  • ...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
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  • ...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
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  • ...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
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  • ...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
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  • ...ayoff system is that we can design society to concentrate rewards to a few people, or disperse them among many.
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  • ...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
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  • ...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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • ...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
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  • ...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
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  • ...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:
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  • ...d shut cases. Almost always, there are tradeoffs involved, and reasonable people can disagree on the conclusion because they have different values. What tr
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  • ...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.
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