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... 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]

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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: