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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]]

This is a testing page, for a simple resource in the [[People]] and [[Charles and David Koch]] categories.

[[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:

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.

[[Category:People|SmithNoah]]

...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

...Well, the arguments are right, capitalism is the best system, but only bad people would think so,' " he once told a journalist. "Then, at some point, my mind ...e for its own good. There are only individual people, different individual people, with their own individual lives." The tone is different—it's Kantian, no

... are put out of the reach of the democratic system, meaning that oppressed people can’t use their power to vote to relieve their oppression." | show=}} ... warfare at the heart of it appeals to embittered, willfully ignorant rich people who give money to think tanks.

It’s odd that people can so decry “sweat shops” without giving a moment’s thought to the s

...ecause they are poor, poor people are not free to do, things that non-poor people are, by contrast, indeed free to do. ...eing subtler than the relevant poor people, notice something that the poor people don’t. A poor

...f view of the non-rich, is to set a tax that makes the cost of hiring rich people to produce J equal to the true marginal cost of that J, a cost that include

...sn’t cheap. Housing costs are stratospheric, despite the chilly winters. People are voting with their pocketbooks when they flee to the sun. (“The rent i

"First a word about PS: It’s beef, people. Plain ol’ beef. It’s created by using a deboning process that removes

...drei Shleifer caught propagandizing for privatization at Harvard. "Of all people, Professor Shleifer should know that contracting out and privatization do n Of all people, Professor Shleifer should know that contracting out and privatization do n

People should get what they deserve. A person who contributes more to society dese

...less libertarians are working to advance the freedom and fair-treatment of people other than themselves. Often they do so more consistently than some of the

...n no one takes most libertarians seriously is because they keep voting for people who do a great job securing economic “liberty,” [...] but they do a hor ...n no one takes most libertarians seriously is because they keep voting for people who do a great job securing economic “liberty,” which basically just me

Cato Institute Senior Fellow Alan Reynolds lied to Congress, saying, “Poor people don’t pay taxes in this country.” In reality, of course, low-income ho ...n no one takes most libertarians seriously is because they keep voting for people who do a great job securing economic “liberty,” which basically just me

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... economic positions where they imposed his ideas onto a terrorised Chilean people. The ironic thing was, wherever his dogmas were applied the exact opposite ...which failed spectacularly when applied in the UK, US and Chile. While few people are now aware of this ideological nonsense, it was once quite the fashion.

15. The division of labour is a phenomenon that allows people to work together to produce far more than any one person could. But it’s 16. All people have their own, valuable and useful local knowledge. But allowing experts t

...ernment action laid the groundwork for their success. Over and over, these people credit their wealth to: ...ver the past decade. “The corporate scandals [Enron and WorldCom] caused people to stop trusting the numbers that companies were reporting. Imagine how muc

... state, but it did so at the cost of alienating a majority of the Austrian people. On the eve of Anschluss a third of the population was still out of work, w

...were getting a good deal from taxes, they’d pay them. But benefits cause people to free ride. 19. We must look at how economic systems and decisions affect all groups of people and across time, rather than just one and at the time it is implemented. Bu

...ntary cooperation is justified and produces superior outcomes, except when people join unions. 2. People maximise utility and should be free to do what they want, except when they

To get at the questions people are asking today: ...ushy; it asks questions which differ from the questions that interest most people working in political economy (including most libertarians and even self-des

{{URL | url = http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/the-battle-for-cato/index.php}} ... says David Gordon, who worked at Cato in 1979 and 1980. “He picked the people as stockholders because he thought they would do what he wanted.”

...hoices made by individual women not to pursue such positions. Middle-class people may be more likely to believe that the poor are largely to blame for their ... the nature of human societies and how they operate (i.e., the notion that people’s behaviour is influenced by material incentives.) At the outset of A The

...ofit-taking has been about denying certain products to segmented groups of people – segregation in housing, lower quality of medical care for ethnic and ge Imagine a new financial product targeted at people who have defaulted on debt and have a history of avoiding debt collectors.

...ng him with such a wage, and that would violate the property rights of the people being coerced. As a corollary this means that, in the free society, no man ...ng him with such a wage, and that would violate the property rights of the people being coerced. As a corollary this means that, in the free society, no man

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...h in the hands of an elite few. Yet in our own democracy, 1 percent of the people take nearly a quarter of the nation’s income—an inequality even the wea ...be to celebrate the ingenuity and drive that brought good fortune to these people, and to contend that a rising tide lifts all boats. That response would be

... III, Part II, Section VI, 526] That is, all transfers of property between people needed to be covered by consent (or, more formally, by contract), and all c ...ginal productivity theory, so he was willing to enunciate the principle of people getting what they produce as “the principle on which property is supposed

...s also the question of who was responsible for certain beneficial results. People should have the legal responsibility for both the positive and negative res ...p as opposed to say a family farm or small artisan-operated workshop where people are working for themselves. All the human beings who work in a productive e

...is suppose-the-capital-is-rented-out argument would be easily available to people on the right and left who constantly use phases like “productive property ...e renting capital from its owners, or by some third party renting both the people and assets involved in a productive activity.

...rket free enterprise tradition that values the contractual freedom to rent people—and thus such an inalienable rights theory will not be found in Tomasi’ ...mple. Due to the factual status as being mature person of normal capacity, people qualify for certain basic rights qua persons. Since that factual status is

... discussing the value of freedom would be pointless if any regime of which people approved was, by definition, a regime of freedom. ... in practice; 2) it’s not enough to have the desired effect, i.e. making people always free to leave, in effect. Let’s set all this aside for a moment. B

... the issue. It's true that one reason we don't fly supersonic jets is that people find them annoying and so it's generally illegal. But it's not as if the ph

...lly in the eurozone) had, during the intervening period, listened to these people rather than their own economic advisers, the state of the UK and world econ

... are fine and praiseworthy, when applied to voluntary interactions between people (as in a family) - but once they enter the "political" domain (coercion), t ... are fine and praiseworthy, when applied to voluntary interactions between people (as in a family) - but once they enter the "political" domain (coercion), t

...anyone possibly justify putting babies and fetuses in the same category as people who deliberately violate one's property rights? How can they regard refusin ...auded or stolen from, people whose bodies you have injured or disable, and people whose property you have damaged or destroyed.

...ectrum. It’s a radical, hard-right economic doctrine promoted by wealthy people who always end up backing Republican candidates, no matter how often they t ... how dumb people have tried to sound smart since the days of FDR. And most people are dumb.

...the grounds that it would increase the welfare of "the lowest ranks of the people" and work "for the benefit of the poor and the indigent." ...Union is moving with doom-like inevitability toward world domination. Many people made the same error about fascism in the 1930s. Liberal states are stronger

...hat year. After that, anybody who wanted to was able to attend. Barely 35 people came to the first few meetings. By the late ’90s, more than 2,000 would People, not organizations, are members; anyone who wants to can join: all its inte

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...on my own experience as editor of ''National Review'', I shall speak about people and ideas with which ''National Review'' has had trouble making common caus

...lobal warming is caused by natural factors rather than human activity. But people who consider green NGOs the greatest plague that has ever visited mankind s ...n international publications, going to the extent of maintaining that even people who pay bribes for water or electricity do not deserve to have a say on cor

...tically Correct (Non-PC) facts will have a positive impact on the way many people look at economic policy in particular and the world in general. But, an inc ...I asked him: “Why do you spend so much time and effort on this when most people go on with their lives not caring much for the law? In any case, no one is

...ot think it a departure from the icy-pure libertarianism I cherish to deny people the "freedom" to sell themselves into slavery. Let me try. ...ong human beings. My having a right consists, at least primarily, in other people having an obligation to act toward me in certain ways; those others act jus

... in Islamic countries; while at their own territories people get enslaved, people get traded, ―imported‖ from abroad to work at their farms, factories, a The Micro-Dynamics of Neo-liberal Slavery are related to the ways people get enslaved and the States complicity. Our discussion here includes firstl

...are, and in the end, disposable. But one thing remains the same: violence. People are still taken by force and held against their will through fear.

...e rather than swinging a sword, it doesn't represent a conquest over other people who might have thought they had a right to live there?

...ard or military: the people who can actually stand up to a band of violent people with weaponry. Any violent movement developing within a night watchman sta

...of 13 should be held as responsible as a man of 23. That’s true for most people, but black males age 13 who have been raised on the streets and who have jo ...hat columnist George Will “supports federal tyranny against the American people,” and listed newly inducted members of the group ranging from former Atla

...I mean that libertarianism by nature – which is to say the nature of the people who find their self-expression in the libertarian attitude – leads to Ron Of course, this is a claim that most – maybe nearly all – people will make about some of those with whom they passionately disagree. The onl

...t fixed problems never come back. I find that ludicrous, as we still have people who violate labor laws and pollution laws and anti-discrimination laws when Besides, how are labor laws an infringement of our liberty, unless people were wanting to do these things? I mean, if the government threatens to pu

...gage in it. Using the government to prevent voluntary exchange is stopping people from doing things they want to do, and this is always bad.

...o one of the three sites – would threaten the continuity of the Garifuna people and culture.

..., adding that Future Cities Development wants to focus on the needs of the people who live in the city.

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...art of a general fear of Jews, intellectuals, homosexuals, financiers, and people who weren't born rich but might be smarter and become richer than you. For Noah Smith ventures deep into the weeds where people talk about good German engineers and bad Jewish financiers:

...word with the purpose of educating…that it was a term used to dehumanize people and as such was necessary to use THAT word…that it was NOT intended to pe ... on the failed platitudes that “it’s just a cultural norm” and “if people find it offensive they can just turn the channel” <I cannot believe we sa

...se engineers the way things are from the way he believes they ought to be: people should be peaceful and respectful of one another, and therefore are this wa ...tions" and "I have won this argument." The word "right" is used similarly. People frequently use it in a context where it has no other possible meaning, like

... good ways of examining what's important to people. It's as if you sorted people by the colors of the clothes they were wearing: the sorting would have litt The real political values of people tend to be best sorted along a right-left, authoritative father vs nurturin

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...long as we individuals are not obstructed by other people (including those people who govern us), we are free. ...k freedom because he is constrained by forces other than the will of other people; by impersonal forces. Most of us, surely, would say that a mountaineer wh

...to property, he nonetheless also argues that government had a right to tax people and did not regard the right to property as incompatible with government’ ...rsonal goods to a seven year old child in exchange for sexual favors? Most people would presumably say “no” and might appeal to the need to protect the c

...ain semi-blind to its function. Not wholly blind, of course. At some level people do recognise the function of the mythic structures they live by, but this i Money, for example, is a mythic or fetish object and most people know that it is ultimately just bits of old paper and metal. But in our day

...atical technology - for finding optimal matches between pairs or groups of people. It incorporates human preferences, optimization, and strategic behavior,

...atical technology - for finding optimal matches between pairs or groups of people. It incorporates human preferences, optimization, and strategic behavior, ...atical technology - for finding optimal matches between pairs or groups of people. It incorporates human preferences, optimization, and strategic behavior, s

...sign. What exactly do those terms mean, and why is their work important to people outside of economics?

Since that time we have seen many such swaps including this record of 60 people and 30 kidneys. Truly a noble match.

LIKE YOU AND OTHER AMERICANS, I love my country, its wonderful people, its boundless energy, its creativity in so many fields, its natural beauty ...ental health problems, the highest obesity rate, the highest percentage of people going without health care due to cost, the highest consumption of antidepre

... of developing ourselves as more important than our relationships to other people and making sure that everybody else has opportunity – that that's a prett

...ally. Blunderbuss accusations of dishonesty, illiteracy and idiocy against people who disagree with you do not improve public conversation. It could actually

...gest that a Romney victory would deny health insurance to about 45 million people who would have coverage if he lost, with two-thirds of that difference due ...ge: most Medicaid beneficiaries are indeed relatively young (because older people are covered by Medicare) and relatively poor (because eligibility for Medic

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...been coerced with laws opposing their leadership's religions. And the same people who established freedom of speech and the press also intended laws on fraud ...ed the US government to be a means of reflecting the political will of the people (in a restricted sense) as policy. IMHO, every institution of our governmen

...utional law, as interpreted by the Court and as understood by the American people. Windsor’s discussion of the merits began by ..., PEW RESEARCH CENTER FOR THE PEOPLE & THE PRESS (June 6 2013), http://www.people-press.org/2013/06/06/in-gay-marriage-debate-both- supporters-and-opponents-

[[Category:Libertarians understand economics better than people with other political positions. Especially liberals.]] ...rovide the links, but I called the crisis more precisely than any of those people."

...the point that the production of a pencil draws on the work of millions of people, not one of whom could actually make a pencil from scratch, and most of who ...forestry and in the various subsequent stages of production. Most of those people would have acquired their basic skills in public schools, and learned more

...ecurity is not a debate about all retirement saving or about the access of people to individual accounts. Virtually everyone already has such access. Rather, ...njoy the benefits of tax deferral until benefits are paid. And, of course, people are free to save out of after-tax income.

...utilizing the private welfare state requires a team of tax attorneys, only people who can afford a team of tax attorneys will take advantage. The private wel ...se markets. It also leads to under-provision of goods and services because people do not want to pay for the programs that they do not realize they are benef

...insist on deep confession: Is the worker prone to self-pity? Does he think people talk about him behind his back? Once hired, employees confront the upstairs

* People overwhelmingly exercise their freedom to NOT BE libertarians.

...ss bubble. Think about how you could make the biggest difference to other people. ** [[Howard Zinn]]'s ''A People's History Of The United States''.

...g different to everyone; the nature of reactionary arguments, which causes people to make bizarre claims about proposed policies (see 5). Many right wingers ...ple didn’t consent to the state. They do not ask questions about whether people consented to the existing property distribution.

... of doing something. For many purposes, if the market was not the best way people used to think that it meant that the government was the best way. We need t ...ernment, private and community-based mechanisms all work in some settings. People want to make me argue that community systems of governance are always the b

{{URL | url = http://people.ucsc.edu/~nuclear/econ1/hotnews/godthatsucked.htm}} ...e males" in New York was "being seized by Everyman and Everywoman." We the people had great, unquestionable power: Serwer's article was even illustrated with

... militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” The courts had found that

...ble of killing anyone are subject to the same rules of opportunity as sane people. Even madmen need opportunities to display their madness, and behave in dif

... by the funding of right-wing millionaires, Hayek constructed a network of people who he initiated into his delusion and convinced that every manifestation o

... deux, is a rare delusional disorder shared by two or, occasionally, more people with close emotional ties. An extensive review of the literature reveals ca ...and centre-left politicians and commentators as “socialist” when these people have no interest in having the state seize control over the means of produc

...ed. Unlike in America there was a strong socialist tradition in Europe and people knew what socialism was – and what it was not. The reason neoliberalism u ... in the 1930s. Any honest look at history – and indeed for many of these people this history was lived – would lead one to conclude that totalitarianism

...uation," Henry said to Madison, "I see a great deal of the property of the people of Virginia in jeopardy, and their peace and tranquility gone." ...rst draft for what became the Second Amendment had said: "The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; a well armed, and well regula

(1) Public Choice Theory cannot explain why people even bother to vote. Curiously, some Public Choice theorists – such as Ha ...S voter participation rises and falls historically. Nor can it explain why people would vote for fringe parties or give their hard earned money to such parti

...ending again. This is done by printing money and causing inflation so that people spend. It is because of statements like this that I lose patience with people who use words like "disingenuous." You can supply your own alternative voca

"It is very important in replies to people like Paul Krugman, that we don't get involved in technical details. Ask som ... typical Keynesian nonsense about how paying people to dig holes and other people to fill them up would start a chain reaction of growth.

...ertarian pretense that the workplace is voluntary would only make sense if people had an equal alternative to the workplace. Power differences between emplo

...ation for the state, which is that some state coercion is required to stop people from dominating, enslaving, and generally harming others. We all do better ...(This, despite his skepticism of any account of coercion that depends upon people’s internal states of mind.) More generally, Hayek was quite liberal in hi

...n their basic justification for the state: the coercion of the state frees people from the “wild” coercion of lawless individuals.

...ists control of the means of production, is so obvious that it eludes many people who otherwise place themselves on the Left. In part, this is because people are prepared from an early age to expect and accept this state of af- fairs

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We would have expected something very different from Ron Paul of all people!

...t, no chaser. He is not going to be The New Eric Cantor, trotting out Real People to use as props for the same old economic snake-oil. He is the embodiment o ... good-cop, bad-cop scenario? No, because the Republicans can't control the people who want to hear what Paul has to say any more than the Democrats can.)

...ly, we are talking about a "movement," a national effort to change the way people think about government's (and big business) role in our lives. Any such eff Finally, this report might serve as a wake-up call to some people in the Tea Party itself, who would find it a little disturbing that the "gr

...endent, the quest for access to an equitable, empowering education for all people has become a critical issue for the American nation as a whole. No society ...ernicious achieve- ment gaps that fuel inequality, shortchanging our young people and our nation.

...book]] forced scholars to confront important facts about differences among people. I think that was the contribution of the book. So, actually, I am a bigge ...er that social and emotional skills were essential to producing successful people – that intervention had to be early, very early, if it was to work at all

...heir state of residence over the course of their entire lifetime. And when people do relocate, a large body of scholarly evidence shows that they do so prima ... the wages of people who work in the state even if they live elsewhere, so people who continued to work in Oregon could not avoid paying Oregon income tax on

...n, I had been reading provocative ideas on the internet - essays about why people should have the right to secede from their government, about why we should ...textbook, the government needed to step in. Yet, here was a group of smart people claiming among other things that the traditional interpretation of the Grea

But as far as I can tell, very, very few people have been willing to let the evidence speak.

He recalled coming to college vaguely liberal. But the people who were declaring themselves for causes looked like hypocrites to him. “ ...an kids at the University of Chicago think so, too: “It was all about ‘People have jobs, and that’s that, and anything that gets in the way between emp

... violent force really quickly. And if no one can, there will be a bunch of people who could not quite succeed at this fighting each other. ... violent force really quickly. And if no one can, there will be a bunch of people who could not quite succeed at this fighting each other.

...markets in literally everything anyone might want, for instance.) Then let people trade with each other if they want to, and only if they want to. The market

...fits as a form of collective problem solving in that it potentially allows people with highly diverse perspectives to come together in order collectively to ...fits as a form of collective problem solving in that it potentially allows people with highly diverse perspectives to come together in order collectively to

...residential election: Mitt Romney’s dismissal of the “47 percent” of people “dependent on the government,” and President Obama’s “you didn’t ...t a moral failing to be punished, it’s an addictive substance off which people must be weaned.

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...l Was a Good Idea, We Should Try It This Time”), this was partly because people who worked for New Deal agencies like the WPA were counted as unemployed. ...lass, if you fixate on the slightest connection between the Roosevelts and people who took a vague interest in Soviet art, you can just about paint a picture

...ing big risks with the economy and with his legacy. My advice to the Obama people is to figure out how much help they think the economy needs, then add 50 pe

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...r characteristics. Remember: rivalry, excludability, and also information--people have to know what they are buying. An absence of or imperfect rivalry--incr

...ese are people who pay no income tax….My job is not to worry about those people—I’ll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility ...ned I am going to get rid of Obamacare, they weren’t happy….But I hope people understand this…if they want more stuff from government tell them to go v

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[[Category:Libertarians understand economics better than people with other political positions. Especially liberals.]] ...nce. The unemployment insurance program works quite well: It gets money to people who have previously paid for it when they need it. Edward Filene’s welfar

...s for $1 billion. The island is then developed into a city-state of 35,000 people, with its own laws, customs and currency, under United States supervision a ... know: that libertarian paradise where chewing gum is banned; thousands of people each year are sentenced to whippings with rattan canes for such offenses as

...ppreciate the architecture in the island’s “school and church” zone, people watch at a farmer’s market where Joe spots a red-headed woman he assumed

Randians are the most rational people one could possibly meet (a conclusion derived from the thesis that Randiani ...t if, as so often happens, one didn’t like, even couldn’t stand, these people? Under Randian theory, emotions are always the consequence of ideas, and in

Thus, to Hayek, if the Planning Board could by some magic know, as people come to know through the market, consumer values, technologies, and resourc

...emacy in all economic matters is exclusively vested in the government. The people are reduced to the status of wards. To the businessmen, the former entrepre

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...ational corporations and the rich while ignoring the interests of ordinary people. See: [[Economic Freedom (propaganda)]]. This is obviously opposed to demo

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... nature libertarians. David Nolan reports that surveys show at most 16% of people have libertarian beliefs. Nolan, the man who founded the Libertarian Party ...ion of new, microscopic sovereign states on repurposed oil derricks, where people who think that “Atlas Shrugged” is really cool can be in the majority f

... "What a niggard this Doctor is of his own, and how profuse he is of other people's intellectual property!"

...t position is less likely to be correct.... I'd add that we should compare people in the same field: Rand's inability to explain Keynesian economics would be

...r most academically influential defense backed away from them is something people ought to be aware of. See also [[Yglesias 2: A Robert Nozick Followup Or; ...r most academically influential defense backed away from them is something people ought to be aware of. Plenty of work by self-identified libertarians holds

...are to be most strongly mandated and enforced, thereby preserving room for people to pursue their own ends and goals.” ...deterring future coercion, or is it a new coercion of its own? Is coercing people into paying taxes to finance a war to “liberate” Iraq a way of on net i

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paycheck" to some people). A wealthy playboy is entitled to his For example, it is an axiomatic tenet of economics that people engage in

The principle of rectification is a "continuous inerference in people's lives" to compensate for unjust initial acquisition and unjust transfer a ...ers or use that cause prices to arise or change involuntarily affect other people, and thus may be unjust. Use of property can create injustice. Levee buil

...1 on the overall list, because at no point are the rights of immigrants or people whom the police may suspect are immigrants taken into account. ...reedom in general. After all you'd have to be something of a fool to trust people who claim to be the supreme protectors of property rights and personal free

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...se, or abandons a half-built factory. Who bears the burden of the tax? The people who cancel their vacations and car purchases and factories, that’s who. N ...ngs by $X must increase GDP by $X. And that would mean GDP is maximized if people consume zero (i.e. everyone dies). This is clearly not the case. So, by pro

... named "Farnsworth McCrankypants" is mentally traumatized by knowing other people watch porn ("Question 1"), and another in which "Granola McMustardseed" is

...lso on outright fraud. How does this affect production and efficiency when people are manipulated into buying things that do not actually do what they are su

...smaller units called “satoshis.” The stock of Bitcoins is increased by people downloading certain software and (generally) joining Bitcoin “pools,” i ... consumption good or was it originally a consumption good? No, it was not. People do not produce Bitcoins to just “consume” them on their computer. Certa

... and then determining what is necessary to make that a reality. Right now, people talk as if they think certain things are bad because they are redistributiv

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...ity has important implications for all the monetary debates that captivate people today, from David Stockman’s assailing 80 years of economic policy to fre ...al wrote Thursday, “the U.S. dollar isn’t just important because other people think it is. The U.S. dollar is important, because the world’s strongest

...e appropriate, but these are far outweighed by one where they are not. The people best suited to decide which reforms are appropriate are those who live in a

...e other than to sell the neoliberal policies that stand in the way of most people gaining control over their economic lives and obtaining genuine economic fr ... that are reducing the democratic deficits of the global economy by giving people more control over their economic lives and the institutions that govern the

...ency, from gold to tobacco to U.S. dollars, Bitcoin is valuable as long as people are willing to accept it. But in all of these examples, willingness to hold This independent value is not fixed and stable. If people give up smoking, or wearing gold jewellery, or if the United States experie

...most of us focus completely on accounting. Occasionally, we do come across people telling us that we’re wasting our time. ...story, I realized that even within academia for almost a decade there were people calling this mainstream view into question. I immediately purchased “Capi

...Label the phlogiston. Make sure you choose a name that refers to something people in general already believe in. "Culture" is great. "Confidence" works too, ... tone, allow you to seem really wise and sagely in front of an audience of people who were primed to believe your conclusion.<br><br>

...nity rating,” for example, will dramatically increase premiums for young people, a counterproductive approach when one considers that most uninsured Americ

...d of criminal conduct effectively does not exist in practice for countless people across the US."

...reach to the Rednecks,” and gain the grassroots support being enjoyed by people such as David Duke at the time. The idea was to appeal to many, but to serve few, by telling people what they wanted to hear, or rather NOT telling them what they didn’t wan

...ill let it lie fallow and forgo all produce from it, so that those of your people who are poor can take food from it and the wild animals eat what they have

... to subsidize the losers’ mortgages? This is is America! How many of you people want to pay for your neighbor’s mortgage? President Obama, are you listen ...le confusion. Their intent is to advocate for liberty, they say; what free people choose to do with their liberty is an entirely separate matter. I think thi

...nation in a society. Educational institutions, it is argued, prepare young people for their specific roles in society -- workers, managers, elites, sub-prole

...a self-described anarchist — an anarcho-syndicalist, specifically. Most people think of anarchists as disenfranchised punks throwing rocks at store window ...inking. I mean it’s not at all the general image that you described — people running around the streets, you know, breaking store windows — but [anarc

...e in tuition. I think these are social and economic decisions made by the people who set policy. And [these hikes] are part of, in my view, part of a backl

...plausible, and it suffers badly from the "we don't give a hoot about other people's problems so we blame them" aspect of libertarianism. | show=}}

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...atters where the evidence is so unequivocal. It would seem that expecting people to be convinced by the facts flies in the face of, you know, the facts. | s ...hout incident. It was the moment Festinger had been waiting for: How would people so emotionally invested in a belief system react, now that it had been soun

...te we have created had created a moral ecology in which immense numbers of people damaged themselves by seeing themselves as worthless Moochers living off th ...ax-and-benefit system in which some people's taxes were positive and other people's taxes were negative.

Some people appear to believe that it was: ...when its Althing and legal system were established, Iceland was settled by people unwilling to submit to a more coercive and, as the sages describe it, tyran

"A meritocracy is a system in which the people who are the oluckiest in their health and genetic endowment; luckiest in te ...d life are the ones that can succeed, is okay so long as these meritorious people "contribute to the betterment of the world and share their luck with others

...o any government run by "a ruling or influential class of educated or able people." Widely used in Asian governments. Based on an assumption of [[Just Deser

... an absolute sense? Think about it. A meritocracy is a system in which the people who are the luckiest in their health and genetic endowment; luckiest in ter

Until that time status was generally ascribed by birth. But irrespective of people’s birth, status has gradually become more achievable. It is good sense to appoint individual people to jobs on their merit. It is the opposite when those who are judged to hav

...he only things humans as moral actors can do is ensure we don’t restrict people’s negative liberty. Taxes are theft! Why do you think you can steal from people?

.....] public choice theory is simply refuted by the evidence, something that people do not note nearly often enough. Political scientists have known – and em

...nd, and largely under its control, by which it reproduces itself.” Elite people have the easiest access to elite schools. ... an absolute sense? Think about it. A meritocracy is a system in which the people who are the luckiest in their health and genetic endowment; luckiest in ter

... words, we are experiencing “blowback,” and Ron Paul supporters of all people should understand that when you poke at sleeping dogs, you should not be su ...s a good thing that markets would lead to racial equality in opposition to people like Carlyle and Ruskin who rejected markets because they wanted to maintai

... cost leads to all the predicted distortions on the consumer side as well. People have to struggle to find the money to pay for drugs that cost hundreds or e

A number of people have already piled on to Greg Mankiw over his defense of the one percent (p ...t says, we don’t consider vandalism against property and assault against people equivalent; the same difference makes nonsense of the income taxes = organ

...cial policies. The central idea behind stakeholder grants--to afford young people the capital they need to be productive enough to avoid poverty--has also be ...tional sense--in terms of duties to render particular things to particular people, and to avoid force, fraud, theft, and other wrongs in person-to-person int

... positive happens. And with the Supreme Court having affirmed that wealthy people and corporations have a constitutional right to buy American elections, who

... he argued, but only "to those who use them, and that is only some of 'the people'". His plan to privatize was simple: "Existing public parks could either be ...id for profit’s sake, this making it necessary for the government of the people to step in. Former Forest Service supervisor Gloria Flora, writing for Head

...usted, and enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from less competent people.’ He often used the expression, ‘There is a mighty lot of real estate l ...e important, the damage from a panic would include huge losses by innocent people, in their honestly invested savings, their businesses, their homes, and the

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...ed income. Every low-income person in town, including the working poor and people not eligible for welfare, got a top-up to ensure a basic level of income. ...e had much better health, far more children graduated from high school and people didn't stop working just because they were guaranteed an income.

...y to the long-term inmates of other institutions, such as madhouses or old people's homes, to the extent that the full cost of their stay is directly picked ...ng the same level of minimum income, this opens up real prospects for poor people who have good reasons not to take risks. This amounts to removing one aspec

...entury, in the era of globalization, in an era in which capital and goods, people and ideas are crossing national borders as they have never done before? In ...bility of human capital ceases to be marginal, genuine redistribution from people with a high labor income becomes problematic too.

people stuck in a taxi that was taking us through a cold and rainy evening to the 1. Responsibility-sensitive: some people can justly have more than others by virtue of the preferences they have or

...e long-term inmates of other institutions, such as mental hospitals or old people’s homes, to the extent that the full cost of their stay is directly picke ...ng the same level of minimum income, this opens up real prospects for poor people who have good reasons not to take risks. This amounts to removing one aspec

...end to "prodigals and projectors," precipitating bubbles and crashes. Let "people of the same trade" meet, and their conversation turns to "some contrivance

...mpanies are the jurisdictions that can indict, convict or otherwise detain people, the potential customer base for incarceration services is very limited. In ...tah-registered company that gained expertise in working with at-risk young people as a major provider of Job Corps programs. The company first entered the pr

...m, shams celebrating a sham. Even the Nobel Prizes in economics awarded to people like Milton Friedman, George Stigler, or Friedman’s contemporary fans Hec ...cs, the people who have told Greece and Spain they have no choice, and the people who today are making sure that the number one item on Obama’s and Congres

...it would be a good idea to abolish Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, people would think I was crazy. ...political program supported by the wealthiest, greediest and most powerful people and institutions in this country. Friedman’s ideology caused enormous dam

... they don’t literally maximize utility. You might ask, why not represent people the way they really are? The answer is that abstraction, strategic simplifi ...f rational behavior. He argued that after a sustained period of inflation, people would build expectations of future inflation into their decisions, nullifyi

... they don’t literally maximize utility. You might ask, why not represent people the way they really are? The answer is that abstraction, strategic simplifi ...f rational behavior. He argued that after a sustained period of inflation, people would build expectations of future inflation into their decisions, nullifyi

role for government in easing working people's pain in the

... that is holding down the individual entrepreneurial genius of 200 million people, and not as their creation, and the vehicle through which that genius can b

... estimated that 40% of his work is funded by the petroleum industry), many people continue to rely on him as a reliable source of climate information. This This is a problematic situation. There are a large number of people who simply don't want to accept the scientific reality that humans are caus

...onsense and dispensing hollow verbiage that fundamentally and forever rots people's brains" -- Schopenhauer, referring to Hegel ...mber of mistakes and exaggerations, which, once reflected on by thoughtful people, should diminish the baleful influence of Mr. Simon's popular ideas.

...f human knowledge. And the ultimate resource is skilled, spirited, hopeful people, exerting their wills and imaginations to provide for themselves and their ...one horse as a person, this means that we have been able to add 44 million people to the American population [in those twenty years] for that one cause alone

...iminating the capital gains tax and the tax on interest or dividends. Only people who hold on to their money should pay taxes. In fact, they should pay more ...story as the publisher of Skeptic magazine and author of such books as Why People Believe Weird Things, this book on evolutionary economics may prove less th

...d into high-tech brain-scanning machines, generating reams of data on what people are "really" like. .... And one of those silly tendencies is the "confirmation bias" -- that is, people tend to believe only the evidence that confirms what they already think.

...lic education and outreach, research, and legislative drafting - assisting people, NGOs, elected representatives, and government officials to craft and adopt

...hat business corporations today dictate governance in our communities. The people are denied authority to "violate the rights" of corporations, and the right

...on of 1% of the world's population acquired great wealth while billions of people are condemned to poverty, war, disease and hopelessness? ...l Rights in order to Establish Democracy and Government Of, By and For the People

...des = Links to "organizations advancing democratic self-governance for all people, and dismantling corporate authority to govern and to define our future". | ...e extraordinary organizations advancing democratic self-governance for all people, and dismantling corporate authority to govern and to define our future....

I am deeply indebted to a huge number of people who have over decades contributed large numbers of recommended links for th

...ers. Her authority is also content-independent: by and large, she can tell people not to violate her property rights based on any reason she wants and she ca ... duty? We can’t say that Sarah has the duty because she agreed to it, as people seldom consent to any system of property rights. Certainly no one consents

...property claims in the name of justice and equality for all. And since the people are duped, they rush to “chain themselves” because they failed to antic ...d? It’s a dangerous juridical power, one that can easily be used to keep people hungry and powerless. In light of the suffering of the property-less, why s

...f-ownership is another imaginary right. No human society has ever treated people as their own inviolate property. Even if self-ownership was only an aspira

...ormatively significant and normatively insignificant impingements on other people’s bodies." | show=}} ...ormatively significant and normatively insignificant impingements on other people’s bodies. In other words, SO draws the line between the permissible and t

Let’s begin with some review. Hobbes believes that all people are naturally free and equal.* That is, no one was born with natural author ... and foremost about the foole. Instead, he is concerned about how ordinary people with their various moral and religious views can get along with one another

... to protect their justly acquired property no matter what other reasonable people think. After all, libertarianism is true and statism is false. But that mea

...reats all persons as subjects of justification. On contractualism coercing people in line with principles they have reason to reject is wrong even if it brin ...s weighty for them. So contractualism is not redundant because it provides people with weighty, deontological reasons to attend to others’ reasons for acti

...k should resolve those disagreements. The tragedy: rational and reasonable people cannot satisfy their common interest in social cooperation and dispute reso ... well they answer it. If a political theory can explain how free and equal people can cooperate on fair terms, then that is an excellent reason to believe it

...ibertarian principles of acquisition, transfer and rectification can leave people out in the cold and fail to provide for the least-advantaged. While Cohen s ...an still see Cohen’s point in the abstract: justice requires not letting people suffer in easily avoidable ways. We may be self-owners but it is hard to se

...that killed four children, but because it "set back the cause of the white people there so dramatically," the editors wondered "whether in fact the explosion ... allegedly) but it sure as hell took him awhile. There were a whole lot of people who didn't need to "evolve" from the idea of authoritarian white supremacy

...established rules of decency have rendered necessary to the lowest rank of people.” [Ibid, part 2 article 4.] The impossibility of taxing the people, in proportion to their revenue, by any capitation, seems to have given occ

... initiatives of the private sector, it is timid and short-sighted business people whose incessant arguments for the free market undermine the proven capacity ... government agencies and laboratories and greater difficulty in recruiting people with the needed skills.

15 of 42 people found the following review helpful ... that is anti-government and anti-subsidy. McDonald's earlier book, We The People, was a rebuttal to Charles Beard's book, An Economic Interpretation of the

...k heads when they didn’t get what they wanted. The heads, presumably, of people who had the freedom to get their heads broken.

...ng to a better standard and receive a better rate of compensation than any people, any time, anywhere on earth, ever enjoyed. This saves the American market “Biological laws tell us that certain divergent people will not mix or blend. The Nordics propagate themselves successfully. With

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...sroots campaign protesting federal aid to distressed homeowners. Wonderful people, all of them.). ...dy doing that successfully enough, and it’s probably just cheaper buying people like Wilkinson and Howley rather than harvesting all those eggs Alien-style

... technocrat pledges in his heart of hearts to express only the will of the people... ...that the masses need technocrats to protect them from plutocrats - strikes people like Will as horrifically arrogant, elitist, and even autocratic. I get tha

...itz's piece: I think the rich are getting much, much richer, while regular people (in the developed world, which is what we're talking about here) are at bes But a wise blogger once said that it's a good principle to argue about other people's main points, not to quibble over side issues. So let me get to the main t

... you apply the ideals of the free market to all sorts of areas in society, people will be liberated from the dead hand of government. The wants and desires o ...ntifically that any attempt by politicians to plan and organise society so people could be free and have a better life would inevitably produce the opposite

The high turnout reflects real suffering for the people of Slovakia that goes well beyond mere cynicism — they’re suffering fro But what’s sustained the protests, and what brought people out to vote in droves for the “populists,” is the mass impoverishment t

...amed on asthma. “Apparently, they don’t want a foreign service full of people who are, like, ‘Well, I can only go to Paris,’” she told the Koch-fun ...ealth Makes Us More Moral“. McArdle’s article argued that wealth makes people “more tolerant of minorities, more welcoming to immigrants, more solicito

... how dumb people have tried to sound smart since the days of FDR. And most people are dumb. ...red of bombing brown people overseas? No shit. That just makes them normal people living in the 21st century. I’m for single-payer health care and can’t

... The union shop, the ACLU now says belatedly, ought not to be required for people who are journalists.” ...ious union-busting outfit of the same name. And “leftist” Nat Hentoff. People used to think Hentoff was a leftist—and he seemed like one to de-politici

...the constitu- tional state as the emergent universal representative of the people. As Lemke describes Foucault’s account of Ordo-liberal thinking, “eco- ...ct that George W. Bush retains the support of the majority of the American people, de- spite his open flaunting of democratic principles amid a failing econ-

...negative externalities,” especially those that affect large numbers of people. ... The standard solutions for these types of pollution were to encourage the people affected to hold the polluter liable in court, or to impose a tax on the ac

... or “liberalised capital markets” into the world and then blame other people for abusing it. ...are paradigmatically non-excludable; you can’t stop them from shining on people who didn’t pay for them. The main thrust of Coase’s article was against

...opias about an idle and vapid humanity in a robotised economy have worried people. There will be disruption and pain, but the new technology will also create ... his case), he felt that this age of leisure and abundance was frightening people because “we have been trained too long to strive and not to enjoy”.

... affected parties would respond efficiently. Because very large numbers of people are typically affected by toxic emissions, they would find it hard even to

By this view, if some people aren’t paid enough to live on, the market has determined they aren’t wo ...e through minimum wages, high taxes on top earners, public spending to get people back to work, regulations on business, or anything else, because the “fre

...arge corporations and the ultra-wealthy) in the class war against ordinary people (the 99%.) The first-class citizens have subverted representative governme

...to say I was wrong. I won’t say it was easy because I alienated a lot of people with whom I’d been very friendly, and I had to break a lot of longtime as ...ll-meaning people who support these reforms—and presumably these are the people who used to be your allies—have “allied themselves with those who seek

...his program of "foreign aid via WalMart" is raising up more than a billion people in China and India at the same time. ...que in the history of nations on Earth. You grew up in a place where most people are brought up never to be satisfied with things as they are, even when the

...his program of "foreign aid via WalMart" is raising up more than a billion people in China and India at the same time.

...de to living under or near one; cities were safe from rampaging hordes and people were free to build their lives in peace. The alternative of fractious warri ...n than any other nation across all of time. In fact, I'd ask you to name a people who ever did better when tempted by power. (You who are fuming right now,

[[Category:Libertarians understand economics better than people with other political positions. Especially liberals.]] ...rmer vice president who now runs his own consultancy. “He tends to bring people into the company who don’t have a lot of retail experience.”..

{{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

...werful companies and individuals who are profiting off locking up too many people for too long. | show=}}

...r differences and focus on the bottom line. But new research suggests that people's racial biases make them more likely to leave money on the table when a wi ...ew York University. "Our work suggests that after offers are on the table, people perceive the fairness of those offers differently — even when they are ob

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...oral problem of the poor that they called “Pica”—a disorder in which people consume inedible substances—and advised parents to control their children Many people think the administration of public health programs is a bureaucratic busine

...out somewhere between 50 and 100 jobs in an economy of 150 million working people.” ... still being set too low), a rate higher than the statewide averages.6 The people of Corpus Christi have been subjected to the hazards of this toxic industry

...their life chances. There was a time—which now seems distant—when most people assumed that students’ performance in school was largely determined by th ... of the pilot Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier, to the amazement of people who said it couldn’t be done. Since Yeager broke the sound barrier, we sh

...p I read. It was obnoxious and stupid, but they would not shut up and most people were unable to answer the libertarian propaganda any more than they could a ...t and studied what attracts people to religion. What do you think attracts people to libertarianism?

...over two centuries of experience with governments based on the will of the people rather than aristocracy, dictators and oligarchs. It is dishonest of liber

...ence suggests that Smith had a more complex view of human action than most people give him credit for." | show=}} ...r. But Smith is often misquoted. This post will give a few examples of how people have misinterpreted Smith’s ideas—and show what he really meant.

...a lot more “utility” (happiness) spending the $10 on other stuff. But people would, and did, borrow into unaffordable mortgages because credit was under ...ccess to the Obamacare exchanges, a problem made worse by the need of many people to deal with policy cancellations that they did not expect.

... 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}}

...ls And Plutocrats|corporatists and plutocrats]] to disenfranchise ordinary people. ALEC opposes unions, voting rights, regulation, environmental law and oth

...endment guaranteeing ex-slaves the vote—suppressing voting numbers among people of color.” “For nearly a century, there were Jim Crow laws in place that discouraged people of color from voting, explains Wade Henderson, the president and CEO of the

...ights, Wisconsin Gov. Walker argued that the law was needed because “our people are weighed down paying for a larger and larger government” and “we can ...nce, the governor proposed cutting off health insurance for nearly 300,000 people—including some in the middle of chemotherapy or dialysis treatments.41 Te

...s war" has always been with us. If you ever actually sit down to read what people wrote in times past - for example Adam Smith in Wealth of Nations, or even ...ber of competitors is maximized -- can vastly increase the total number of people who get rich in the best way, by delivering innovative goods and services.

...e a safety-net program doing exactly what it’s supposed to do: help more people in a time of widespread economic distress. ...n the romanticism of Sir Walter Scott that Mark Twain denounced in his own people. In a resentment that simmers like hot, kudzu-scented evenings. We are sti

...nks that has been developed over the past half century, such as [[ALEC]]. People who want to diverge from orthodoxy are shut off from money, ideas, publicit

...s where it encourages alienated young people to commit hate crimes against people of color, Jews, and gays and lesbians, among other targets. The electoral e ... Earth must submit to the dominion of those to whom God has granted power. People are basically sinful, and must be restrained by harsh punitive laws. Social

...ublic spaces; public lands—are the things that define us as the American people. ...cy is another, perhaps ultimate, form of publicness. As the empowerment of people to govern themselves freely, as they and they alone see fit, it should be s

...iority has been to shed doubt on studies suggesting that its product makes people sick. ...ed on the basis of animal results that would turn out to be meaningless in people.

... an international superpower than a U.S. in 2070 that has only 400 million people. If you would rather have the U.S. than China or Russia be the world’s su

...al deaths from resistant infections are easy to rationalize: perhaps these people were just old, already ill, different somehow from the rest of us. But deat ...le to infection. Burn units would have a very, very difficult task keeping people alive.”

People who seem very bothered by the fact that the observed reality of nominal wag ...logical stress caused ulcers. This explanation had good predictive power - people who were under a lot of stress started having ulcer pain. And it was a usef

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...ng unfairly, and such punishments activate reward-related neural circuits. People also strongly support banning transactions they see as exploitative of othe ...pushed as a substitute: the earned-income tax credit. This encourages more people to seek work, but can push wages down; a minimum wage ameliorates this. Of

...y Relief Administration, and the Works Progress Administration, where most people were actually employed in full-time jobs in construction projects and publi ... is very important: Murphy’s unemployment data for Canada includes those people who were employed by different levels of the Canadian government on public

... advanced modern democracies, that hypothesis does not ring true. For most people, it’s the bill collector, or the ex-wife, or the boss that imposes the mo ...thinks best. It’s an attractive ideal, one widely shared by 21st century people. Modern liberals share the libertarian commitment to “autonomy,” as thi

... instability, chaos, the rise of a boss-class of criminals who assassinate people they don't like, and a mass handover of wealth to a minority even smaller t ...ut of trouble. They love that it's decentralized; it's the currency of The People, not The Man. They love that it's "mined," a bit like gold, because that ma

...ntirely, and accuse the authors of various misrepresentations of facts and people along the way." Examples from ''[[The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better ...ntirely, and accuse the authors of various misrepresentations of facts and people along the way. Now, while it's true that some arguments or ideas are essent

... Shock Doctrine'' advances a truly unnerving argument: historically, while people were reeling from natural disasters, wars and economic upheavals, savvy pol

...in is evidence that they are disconnected from the financial problems most people face while lacking a fundamental understanding of the role and function of ...ttention: that Bitcoin is “a way to offer low-cost financial services to people who, because of financial or political constraints, don’t have them today

... such sound and fury as they did on healthcare.gov. The unfailingly polite people at the customer service center – and I talked to lots of them – were us

...uyers of QuitCoin are better off at the initial transfer price of $400 and people will prefer that new medium. Over time the price of Bitcoin will have to f

...uyers of QuitCoin are better off at the initial transfer price of $400 and people will prefer that new medium. Over time the price of Bitcoin will have to f ...uations in demand cause smaller fluctuations in price. Other things equal, people prefer a safer asset to a less safe asset.

This kind of thing flummoxes many people, who imagine that we’re having a real debate. It makes perfect sense, how

...n preferences, it is certainly true that there are a significant number of people who claim to base their politics on a preference for limited government. Th ...is responsible for confusion surrounding redistribution and the objections people make about how they don’t want “their money” spent.

...e status quo baseline distribution, those food stamps belong to them. Many people — perhaps Ozimek even — want to take away those food stamps. If we are But that is not how certain people would describe it. They would say the food stamps are redistribution, and t

... not the same thing as having the same amount of income or resources. Some people — the disabled for instance — require more resources to have the same c ... authors bring up examples of the liberty-infringing nature of terminating people for what they say and wear (on and off of work), searching their belongings

...mained passive; if it did not either interfere en masse, or employ and pay people [i.e. police] for the purpose of preventing him from being disturbed in the

...majoritarian tendency reigns, and that majoritarian tendency is to protect people from discrimination. He explains (note immigration here means any moving ar ...marily die. Also, notice how old school he is even in 2001 comparing LGBTQ people to pedophiles. Bold move, Hoppe, bold move.

...nnouncement about heroin seems comical to libertarians, but makes sensible people cry. Gift networks are very emotion-laden. I haven't worked it out yet, b

...mum wage 10 percent (say from $7.25 to near $8) would reduce the number of people living in poverty 2.4 percent. (For those who thrive on jargon, the minimum ... hour, as many Democrats are proposing in 2014, would reduce the number of people living in poverty by 4.6 million. It would also boost the incomes of those

...nt in the myth that government largesse creates dependency. Fundamentally, people want to have more things even if it means pointless work." | show=}} ...ers note that productivity rates have risen, which theoretically lets many people be just as comfortable as previous generations while working less. Yet they

...ss to food stamps were healthier and had higher incomes in later life than people who didn’t. ..., because middle-class Americans saw “welfare” as something that Those People got but they didn’t.

... — renders the old Republican divide-and-conquer strategy obsolete. Most people are now on the same losing side of the divide. Since the start of the recov ... speaker of the State, had spoken of the need “to divide and conquer” people on public assistance, and called criticisms of the cuts as “whining comin

...erall level of demand, and unemployment benefits put money in the hands of people likely to spend it, increasing demand. ...elf-evidently absurd. You think that you can reduce unemployment by paying people not to work? Hahahaha!

...out of poverty, that’s a major problem. These programs do, in fact, lift people out of poverty--it just doesn’t show up in the official rate, because tha ...ere are five big programs in the Cato list that are most analogous to what people think of as “welfare”: The refundable part of the Earned Income Tax Cre

...ve move, but it is slightly more complicated than the linear pounding most people utilize. By detouring into property, you force the libertarian to give up t Smarter people can shift into a desert theory or utilitarian argumentative framework. Thos

...only for the kids of those "other folks" - in Lisa Delpit's phrase, "Other People's Children." At a minimum, make sure people you know read the original.

...o is being charged for what. Even when annual charges are transparent, few people begin to grasp the vast sums such charges may cost them over the life of th ...easy credit – the research of the economist Eugenio Miravete often shows people finding satisfactory deals against what look like insuperable odds. And the

...for hedge fund managers allow them to pay only a 15-percent rate while the people they earned the money for usually pay a 35-percent rate. This is the break

...ves in Boise, Idaho. “He’s one of the most guileless and nonaggressive people I’ve ever met.” ...he street and said, ‘Can I help you?’ ” said the man, who, like many people interviewed for this article, spoke on the condition of anonymity because h

...atriot Movement into an armed insurrection. McVeigh failed, but killed 168 people in the process. Minor revisions have been made over time. The original vers ...for taking out a Nazi machine gun nest. He thought the Germans were decent people whose big mistake was not standing up to the thugs like the Brownshirts who

Since people need food to sustain their lives, and since food, like land, is in limited Wouldn't the LVT make it more difficult to own land, especially for poor people?

...-style villain to launch; it can take place as the collaborative result of people trying to earn a bit more money for their mining efforts. ...computer working alone will take many years to solve a crypto-puzzle. Some people use GPUs to speed up this process, while others have invested in custom ASI

...xed-supply currency becomes worth more in terms of goods and services, and people begin to hoard it—expecting that if they wait a little longer, they will ...subs begin to circulate. And once it becomes clear that there is no limit, people will realize that their holdings could become worthless at any moment, and

...l for buyer and seller to connect online anonymously is a useful thing for people in that economy, and so that alone offers at least some value to Bitcoin. ...meaning it's difficult to get your wealth out of the country. One way rich people get their wealth out of the country is by laundering it through Macau. Mamt

...ts to grapple with the kinds of critical questions that, in my experience, people generally have in mind when they think of ‘economics’: where do growth, How do people make decisions? This question is clearly central to economics, as any econo

...t that the "grab-what-you-can world" where people freely expropriate other people’s possessions is the only one where nobody initiates force directly again ...t people. The core move in libertarianism is to permit violently attacking people when they do not follow the libertarian's preferred economic regulations re

...conclusion that we must create the grab-what-you-can world. In this world, people are free to do whatever they want so long as they do not literally bring fo ... wrong. I thought I would use this event as a learning opportunity to help people understand how the reductio ad absurdum works.

...ll of philosophy. Defined neutrally to mean initiating force against other people, it generates the conclusion that basically no theories of economic justice

... I meant that the specific findings of the paper were not publicized. Yes, people talked about moral foundation theory and libertarianism before, but that is ...es cultural construction to turn someone into a libertarian. In many cases people do this to themselves by reading, and reading too much into, novels by Rand

...o their jobs properly. This, of course, does not change the fact that most people need only an elementary understanding of physics and mathematics to get thr ... that are surely absurd. Thus, non-Euclidean geometry is required. Several people are confronted every day with the chance to commit some kind of fraud to ma

... not “aggressing” on an individual “property owner” if in fact The People ultimately own (or have some kind of share right in) all property, given th

... We should then invite criticisms of the libertarian conjecture and answer people’s specific criticisms as best we can. This saves wasting time on elaborat ..., consequences (consequentialism), or allows the society most conducive to people’s desirable flourishing (eudaimonism), or is the implicit social contract

...ng in the clowns,” she said, and smiled before I lost her in the mass of people. ... few months, I had absolutely no desire to ever be linked to this group of people.

...alues. It was a simple formula to live by: If enough people value X, those people will pay for X, whether or not X = someone else’s interest. Government in ...taxation or regulation or minimum wage or a failed incentive structure. If people were in need it was because government was preventing the market from provi

...ive left, pitting the Democratic Party leaders including Obama against the people who voted for him, and who have nowhere else to turn. On the Democratic Par ...paganda-soaked, that Ira Glass and the This American Life/Planet Money/NPR people were forced to respond to their critics. The downside is that the critics w

...vel. But, don't get carried away. There are no secret ceremonies or lizard people in this tale. Nor is it a story about groups named after Italian light fixt ... books, hundreds of journals, dozens of universities, tens of thousands of people and thousands of professorships, and so on in a network touching virtually

... books, hundreds of journals, dozens of universities, tens of thousands of people and thousands of professorships, and so on in a network touching virtually

...state. This point, hated by libertarians, defeats the widespread view that people are having “their money” take off them: it wasn’t theirs to start wit ...t to utility. If we’re dealing in cash terms, then a tax that makes some people worse off and nobody better off looks bad, and looks Pareto inferior. But i

...state. This point, hated by libertarians, defeats the widespread view that people are having “their money” taken off them: it wasn’t theirs to start wi

...e workers is as dog bites man as it gets. Few would be surprised that rich people were willing to break the law to get even richer. The classic libertarian view of the market is that we have a huge number of people in the market actively competing to buy and sell goods and services. They a

...y careful of government policies that try to manipulate people's behavior. People are smart, the theory goes, and they will catch on to your trick and find a .... Thus, if you were a smart young macroeconomist in 1980 who believed that people were both rational and smart, that government intervention was a bad idea,

...y owned anything. This time necessarily existed. In the scene, we have two people, Jane and Bob. Bob, apparently high on drugs, has decided that he can take ...l action that nobody asked me to take, and so 2) I get to violently attack people to restrict them from things they used to not be restricted from. How you d

...d? It’s a dangerous juridical power, one that can easily be used to keep people hungry and powerless. In light of the suffering of the property-less, why s

...tual history. I’m not personally big on such things — in general, what people thought Keynes or Friedman meant ends up being more important than what the

...Judicial Reasoning]]''. (Privilege means liberty.) Libertarians (and lay people in general) are usually ignorant of these important definitions. The most i

...wouldn't go so far in the "strawman" arguments against libertarianism that people keep accusing me of making as to contend that any libertarian would say tha

...nate the weak, or the Israelites could simply claim a land as God's chosen people, these options were not open to 17th-century English Christians. They neede ...rs of being taught that grabbing things first is the just way to get them, people actually start to act like this is natural!)

...nate the weak, or the Israelites could simply claim a land as God's chosen people, these options were not open to 17th-century English Christians. They neede

if you [Brin] hire a single one of these people that means war. ...r of the $9 billion wage theft suit, “loves people, and he loves growing people.”

Doublethink in which people are aware that in some mundane sense Obama was born in Hawaii, but also bel Conformism, in which people know the truth but give the culturally preferred answer, or choose some eva

...ks for companies both vast (think Twitter) and humble. Though few of these people have any sense of their finished work product, what they’re doing is help ...r, and others in the crowdsourcing industry, are bringing opportunities to people who never would have had them before, and we operate in a truly egalitarian

...inanced by a large pool of other conservative donors as well, according to people who participate in the organization. ...that we are evil, so we need to be destroyed, or killed — then why force people to disclose?”

...italism as merely trade. "Capitalism... is simply the freedom of ordinary people to make whatever economic transactions they can mutually agree to."

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...latter awaken fears that intelligent machines will render a vast number of people redundant. A recent paper by Carl Frey and Michael Osborne of Oxford univer ...ge adjustment shock as workers are laid off; the market wages of unskilled people might fall far below a socially acceptable minimum; and, combined with othe

...ty, prosperity, and family are in fact the bulk of happiness for most real people and the principal issues that concern governments. ...rding specific freedoms is illegitimate. And since society does so protect people, libertarianism is an illegitimate moral position until the Great Libertari

| text = Paradoxically, people exercise their freedom not to be libertarians.

...n my omniscience to know what's out there that I can add to my site. Many people have been fantastically helpful, suggesting books and links from all over.

... and technology, but that would be at best half right. Certainly many more people will be able to see the films that Downey acts in than would have had the o It also has stepped up copyright enforcement, imposing stiff fines on people who use the Internet to make unauthorized copies of copyrighted material. T

For what was the next war? Contra what many people say, it was not the financial crisis. That crisis was a surprise, but not b ...n, the output effects of fiscal policy, were both counterintuitive to many people and reasonably on target.

...| des = Rights are a far more complex subject than we usually think. Most people would be surprised at how much that their folk models of rights leave out. ...lity in a 1913 article that he expanded into a book. Libertarians (and lay people in general) are usually ignorant of these important definitions.

5.3.5. Are there conflicts of interests among rational people? - all the time; an example. ... That is what it means to say "10 + 7 = 17." I do not physically alter the people in any way.

... been steadily declining below the ceiling. The cap is no longer binding. People aren’t willing to pay for something if they already have more of it than

...own of the government-backed safety net. It happens every single time. The people will want a safety net where utter chaos doesn't prevent it: they'll either

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... ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people -- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil righ .... It is, I believe, the faith in our fellow citizens as individuals and as people that lies at the heart of the liberal faith. For liberalism is not so much

Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States. The side of American history you usually ...orking. Terkel was an oral historian; his interviews with a broad range of people about their jobs are more informative than a dozen textbooks.

...who derives their income through the ownership of capital upon which other people are employed to work. In essence, if everyone owns the capital that they us ...mic system in which some people own capital and some people don't, and the people who own capital pay wages, which are determined by markets, to non-capital

...l demand aren’t possible, because money has to be spent on something. If people save more, well, their money goes into banks, which lend it out, so it fina ...e not creating new demand, you’re just transferring it from one group of people to another. If Washington borrows the money from domestic lenders, then inv

...different impact on the economy than closing tax loopholes for high-income people when the economy is at full capacity.b And evidence drawn from a small, op

...e insurance because of algorithmic predictions. Algorithms may select some people for government audits, while leaving others to find themselves undergoing g Most of us would not be concerned if 10 or 100 times too many people ended up on the TSA’s enhanced airport screening list as long as an airpl

... and bureaucratic obstacles to build a system that can monitor 1.4 billion people. Government departments often guard their information, undermining efforts Despite official-media warnings and propaganda promoting sincerity, dozens of people interviewed in Shanghai weren’t aware of the social-credit plan. Many agr

...magnificence, and second, because it has always seemed to me that the only people impressed by these individuals’ autofellation have been themselves. In ot

...rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a Nation and a people.” ...s through breaking teachers’ unions and essentially hiring temp workers, people who have very little skills.”

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...est heavily in its network; its LTE broadband area now reaches 200 million people and its access speeds have been found to be faster than those of its larger

...early-articulated for them to have adherents. While only a small number of people self-identify as cyberlibertarians (for an exception, as well as a typology ... when those free individuals impinge on the actions and interests of other people, the neoliberal response is: too bad.

...ders (as of Dec 2013, half of all Bitcoins were owned by approximately 927 people, such fight-the-power revolutionaries as the Winklevoss twins of Facebook i

...al Review describes bakers being conscripted into performing services. But people are not essentially bakers, nor are they forced to be bakers. They choose t ...ms violate), we can gin up other more relaxed concepts of voluntarism that people seem more comfortable with. For instance, something can be said to be volun

...were obsessed with the wrong thing. The economy was plunging, yet all many people at the Fed wanted to talk about was inflation." | show=}} ...were obsessed with the wrong thing. The economy was plunging, yet all many people at the Fed wanted to talk about was inflation.

...nd anti-government. Plutocrats exist because of property, and the less the people direct government, the more powerful plutocrats are. That's why libertarian ...true, innate psychology of a Superman. He can never realize and feel other people." I'm reluctant to make generalizations based on my necessarily limited exp