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...f dollars in one night. But wouldn't it have been even more unfair to the people who enjoyed watching him if, in the pursuit of some abstract ideal of equal

...ot of time thinking about ways to improve systems of measurement. Business people should, too. ...ial for errors, delays and misunderstandings. The name “U.F.” reframes people’s thinking so that keeping real economic values stable is natural and eas

...pite its ubiquity, this sentiment means very different things to different people, and is ...markets are becoming more useful to the actors who already use them, or to people now outside of them? Is the point that individuals are becoming “more fre

...ive self-obsession, his ingrained inability to accept the reality of other people. But all these books share one trait: They ignore the consequences of people's actions. Starship Troopers gives us war without PTSD and guilt over slaug

...we are told everywhere today, produces democracy. It gives “power to the people” and dethrones authoritarians; it levels the playing field for distributi ...arians. But the term also describes a wider ideological formation in which people embrace digital utopianism as compatible or even identical with leftist pol

...he notion that genocides were preceded by gun control and that taking away people’s guns is the first step towards taking away their freedom and finally th ...but it is never said what form it took or how prevalent it was or how many people lost their guns. Finally most of the quotes are either fake or taken out of

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

...enforce property rights and contracts, and prevent force, fraud and theft. People could own what they acquired through ‘voluntary’ exchange; they would b ...thing that is autonomous is deemed abusive. Ownership of children or other people is therefore deemed problematic. Even in the cases where libertarians appro

... des = "Private corporations are consuming the resources that the American people collectively own at a staggering rate, and the government is not protecting

...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}}

...mpassionately. A book of pragmatic compromise, that asks what is wanted by people rather than what ideology demands. | show=}}

...[[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}}

...ch ownership has the opposite effect -- it creates gridlock. When too many people own pieces of one thing, whether a physical or intellectual resource, coope

{{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}}

...e are approximately 130,000 of these developments, housing some 30 million people. Residents are required to belong to homeowner associations, pay monthly fe

{{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}}

...s for those of the acting individual, it is vain to pass judgment on other people's aims and volition." (Human Action)

...that Johnson’s Great Society programs “lived up to our best hopes as a people” but that “our work is far from over.” Conservative critics like Rep. ... federal government is “incapable” of providing effective help to poor people, and that we should rely instead on “the single greatest engine of upward

...ld potential, based solely on the wide-eyed, group-think-y opinions of the people around them. ...ve commodity like Bitcoin is that it essentially runs on hope – the more people who buy the hype, the higher the value goes, and the more firms like Andree

...e her own ideas. She was also harshly critical of anarchism. However, some people who consider themselves Objectivists disagree with these positions. Some cl

Now ask yourself this question: can people in the U.S. refuse to engage in private commerce with anyone for any reason We know of course what Green means. He doesn’t mean that people should be able to refuse to engage in private commerce with anyone for any

... it reeks of the hard sell, the desperate attempt to unload a product that people just don't want to buy. So we have Kate Hymowitz trying to scare women ...g about raising them. (There is a kernel of truth in Kaplan's argument -- people in my socioeconomic set at least tend to overdo the parenting -- but his ov

...y here, but it seems to me that this kind of social persecution would make people feel less free, not more. Who wants to live in a society in which certain t ...suppress information about inequality, I have a feeling it would just make people all the angrier on those rare occasions when the fact of inequality made it

...e standard libertarian rebuttal - delaying beneficial drugs kills far more people than approving ineffective or even harmful ones - made my head spin. If I ...tarian insight, I noticed a phenomenon central to my mature research: Most people violently rejected even my most truistic arguments. Yes, I was a shrill te

“Romney is very, very comfortable, it seems, with people who are like him. That’s one of the reasons why he seems so stiff and awk In person, thanks to good genes, people often assume I’m younger than I am. On paper, however, I’m just another

... The measure passed by a margin of 60 to 40 percent with over 4.6 million people voting for it (see 􏰀http://vote98.ss.ca.gov/Returns/prop/ 00.htm􏰁). ...ay with the others on organ transplantation in this issue. Because healthy people have two kidneys and can remain healthy with only one, kidneys from living

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...while Head brilliantly translates ideas remote from the experience of most people into everyday language, he is too inclined to take the claims of the engine ...or everyone else. In trying to escape mass-produced services, many wealthy people have turned to concierge-like doctors, bankers, etc., with whom they can ha

...bertarian will accuse the government of acting like the mafia and stealing people’s money (just the last day a commenter asked me to “stop promoting the ... is a thief who gives more than he steals (due to economic inequality most people receive more than they pay in taxes).

...ng and then are surprised that they are losing. They make no effort to win people over, yet are surprised that no one supports them. ...ct same as it was last year and prices, wages, dividends and even how much people spend must also be fixed and not allowed to change. Why anyone would pass t

...gh, no evidence is necessary. Likewise he never cites any opponents or the people he criticises and as a result debates arguments that government advocates d ...nclude the freedom to discriminate but not the freedom to earn the same as people of a different skin colour doing the same work. He then decides to leave hi

...king this up; this is genuinely the argument he makes). The idea that poor people may be unable to afford things they need seems entirely alien to him. If th ...mply freely choose between security firms, who of course would never force people to choose. These security firms would never go to war because wars cost mon

...le with construction skills, so they weren't an effective way to help poor people" (BEA) Skilled workers were needed IN ADDITION TO, NOT INSTEAD OF common la ... In truth, the entire payroll tax would come out of the pockets of working people, because the tax would be part of the cost of providing a job; and if the m

...use they make possible private cooperation and peaceable coexistence among people not linked by ties of affection or blood. ...Aquinas argues that the coercive function should be “vested in the whole people or in some public personage,” and not allowed to private parties (Aquinas

...ter than plotting new ways to make things inefficient. I also like to stop people doing things just for the sake of it. ...e door 24/7. I also think that organization should be in charge of helping people who aren't doing so well so that they don't turn into criminals from which

“In the real world, people don’t always follow the rules—they do what’s best for them,” says J ...oundation, a nonprofit created to standardize and promote Bitcoin, and the people maintaining the Bitcoin software have shown interest in his work and that o

...inistration economist N. Gregory Mankiw is well known for his love of rich people and his outspokenness on economic matters. But in his semi-regular New York ...cies that reward some and hurt others. While Obamacare has allowed various people to get health insurance, he writes, it has also led to other Americans to l

...en Buffett, and Carlos Slim—own more wealth than the roughly 3.5 billion people who make up the poorest half of the world’s population. ...nt. When the data are presented in this way, Piketty notes, it is easy for people to “grasp their position in the contemporary hierarchy (always a useful e

...xcludible–that is, it must be possible to cheaply and efficiently charge people a price for making use of them. 7. The commodities traded must be rival–t

...communist economies rely on state violence", "Communism killed 110 million people for resisting dispossession" and "Capitalist governments don’t commit hum Once communism is mentioned, the blinders come down. People don't want to listen to your arguments because in most peoples' eyes the de

...y Allen’s famous injunction, to believe. So, here are seven bogus claims people make about communism and capitalism. ... met is patently belied by the lived experience of hundreds of millions of people. Most find ourselves constantly stuck between competing pressures and there

...f the rich over those of ordinary families. I suspect, however, that fewer people realize the extent to which the party favors returns on wealth over wages a ...s leaders. It’s less well understood that the biggest breaks went not to people paid high salaries but to coupon-clippers and heirs to large estates. True,

...sums to do nothing much at all. TFM has no office, but it has boasted many people with important titles who do not seem to have actually done much to earn th ... reminds us of those creepy ads last year that were supposed to make young people afraid of health insurance.

...s little evidence to suggest she felt any reverence for the hardscrabble people of the plains. In 1933, Lane sketched an outline, never finished, for a “ ...tly—recast the stoic, sometimes confused pioneers as optimistic, capable people who achieved success without any government help.

...has its drawbacks. But when it is led by a reasonably enlightened group of people, as China is today, it can also have great advantages. That one party can j

...come from capital tend to grow faster than wage income, which is what most people rely on.) The purple line shows Piketty’s estimate of the rate of return ...rong.) But it’s based on some serious arguments, and it’s got a lot of people talking. Just like the rest of the book.

...e wealth, and that it violates our national tradition to suggest that some people control too large a share of the wealth. ...hostile to the rich. “If one’s priority is to punish highly successful people, then vote for the Democrats,” said Mitt Romney. Democrats vehemently (an

Now compare this to people who say that because asset markets are efficient, there can’t be bubbles.

... are always good, journalists who repeat what Paul Ryan says, and ordinary people who nod their heads in agreement. ...ld be to improve people’s quality of life, which includes the ability of people to live meaningful lives. He also seems to agree that there is nothing wron

...e of the world. In our society, that person directs violence against other people by calling upon the state, which then mobilizes its police forces to carry ...m of private property, all it really does is hand out violence vouchers to people who we call owners. This can be done through direct grants to individuals o

... We might be creating conditions so that the same poverty traps that force people into payday loan interest payments force them into organ donation as well.

...is an interestingly ambiguous term. As discussed in Jacob Hacker’s book, people who have signed up to Health Savings Accounts (which were around before the ... was attacked so vigorously (and incoherently) before it was published, by people like Brink Lindsay and Glenn Reynolds . If Hacker’s framing of politics s

...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 e 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 “

...agues on the House Agriculture Committee that it's far better to help poor people "through the church ... because it comes from the heart, not from a badge o What all this shows is that there's an unspoken subtext when people like Ryan complain, as he did during the 2012 presidential campaign, about

... then, in the very next move, they seek to install a system to allocate to people the right to do precisely that. As I explained in my prior post, the functi ....” This is the only world that is actually consistent with the rule that people may not act upon the bodies of others without their consent. All other worl

| Instead of fostering a system that enables people to help themselves, America is now saddled with a system that destroys valu ...e, hinders our plans to destroy the environment, and relegates millions of people to a bare subsistence existence, when they should be starving in the gutter

...he same as wealth. All the shares of stock and houses and cash assets that people own constitute capital, or wealth. And wealth is much more unequally distri ... process is over. Unless drastic measures are taken, the future belongs to people who simply own stuff they inherited from their parents.

...to strawman positions such as redistributing organs and not admitting that people have different abilities. | show=}}

...someone says that egalitarianism makes no sense because it is obvious that people have different levels of intelligence, different physical attributes, diffe ...someone says that egalitarianism makes no sense because it is obvious that people have different levels of intelligence, different physical attributes, diffe

...e listening to bad right-wing economists who are even worse philosophers–people who say things like: “We are economists, We talk only about efficiency, a ...o allow for what philosophers parody as “utility monsters”–that some people would enjoy or derive more benefit than others from at least some thing.

...ally, what [[Robert Nozick]] has in mind when he says that you can blow up people’s negative liberty so long as you do not worsen their welfare." | show=}} ...into such a world violates the non-aggression principle because it permits people to act upon the bodies of others without their consent (walk across an imag

...n, big government program in history. Through laws of one sort or another, people are violently restricted from nearly every single piece of the world around

...y ownership in general (and the capitalist system it will generate) leaves people thus harmed no worse off in the long-run. So it is ok to rob them of their ...mine one of the key points of libertarianism. If you can violently destroy people’s liberty so long as you leave them better off, then surely a long variet

...ists and mainstream whites can agree, and that is individual liberty. Some people theorize that whites have evolved a uniquely developed sense of personal li ... so much wealth from its people and turned it into “public” goods, the people have the right to keep out aliens, who have not contributed to the creation

...uite large, while for small intimate nightclubs, s􏰓 may be as few as 10 people. ...ndividual choice would necessarily internalize the crowding externality as people voted with their feet to find their ideal tax/public good package. Problems

...e at 24, and spent the rest of his years complaining about those damn poor people and their desire to not be exploited anymore." (pseudonym noeffeks)

...ement (“a revolution of the rich against the poor”) deprived the rural people of historic rights to supplement incomes by grazing domestic animals on com For a time, social cushions left over from feudalism sheltered ordinary people from the turbulence of markets. “England withstood without grave damage t

...platform of 1980 was extremist and way out of touch with what the American people wanted and needed. ...e view of a fringe party that had the support of 1 percent of the American people. Today, not only does virtually every Republican in Congress oppose raising

...rofessor, George Streisinger, who had been testifying for the Downwinders (people who had been exposed to fallout from nuclear tests), that there is no such

...rty in the sense that labor products are property. Yet in his debates with people he viewed as socialists, he seems to have lost this recognition and to have ...nd fixing a window fails to increase wealth, and therefore fails to enrich people in the aggregate. After all, the window that exists after the repair is no

... face trade offs" or "many things that are desirable are not feasible" or "people are satisfied with their choices". ...wing: if these are the lessons that economics has taught the world, how do people who have not learned those lessons behave? Is it the case that someone who

...fort, observing Sargent's constraints of concision and relevance for young people starting out in life: 1. People have different motivations: wealth, power, pride, job satisfaction and so o

...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}}

...dependence from social norms, racists are welcome, and actively courted by people like [[Ron Paul]]. No surprise that [[2013 American Values Survey: In Sear

5. Lots of people who liked Ron Paul for other reasons (anti-war, drug legalization) gave him 21. Libertarianism was born of people who didn't want to make the evolution Mill did. Hayek obsessed with Mill's

Now, obviously people can't be responsible for the bad acts of people who might happen to like them. And more specifically to this case, Paul has ...tionalist Mr Magoo, blindly stumbling through a literature of race war/mud people diatribes he was wholly unaware of. But even if that deeply implausible ide

...ebtor relations in the 18th century. This transformation enabled masses of people to obtain credit without moral opprobrium or social subordination. Classica ...ing the social relations of creditors to debtors. This enabled millions of people to obtain credit without having to give up their personal independence to o

...e to pay the taxes (or whatever) to get debt down. Yet I do not often hear people arguing that we have to let debt stay high because the government can only

...goes to the top (more than a fifth of all income goes to the top 1%), more people are in poverty at the bottom, and the middle class—long the core strength ...em will thus create more jobs. America is full of creative entrepreneurial people throughout the income distribution. What creates jobs is demand: when there

... right-wingers oppose egalitarian policies is that they don’t think poor people are deserving of the income such policies deliver to them. ...patterned distribution in which economic benefits flow to their producers, people usually said to have “earned” them. Adherents seem to think that laisse

...who famously said it’s “fantastic” that the world’s top 85 richest people hold as much wealth as the bottom, poverty mired 3.5 billion. This even tho ...t intervention meant to decrease inequality, claiming that such plans make people lazy and that they don't work, anyway. Things like progressive income taxes

... would expect, given the “national socialist” leanings of the American people: ...acy as we know it is bad enough. Democracy that really listened to all the people would be an authoritarian nightmare.

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... to support claims that much interstate migration is driven by high-income people -- or anyone else -- consciously choosing low-tax locations." | show=}} ...s in tax levels among states have little to no effect on whether and where people move, contrary to claims by some conservative economists and elected offici

...rld does not involve acting upon any other person’s body, but preventing people from grabbing up pieces of the world does, the GWYCW is the only world that ...vement over a world of might makes right. Thus, the search among civilized people in society is always for objective (what Hoppe calls intersubjectively asce

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...they want. But who does get them also matters, because it's not always the people who value those things the most. ... be greater than the undersupply costs." In other words, letting the wrong people buy the scarce goods can be even worse for society than the scarcity itself

Lie number two: People are paid what they’re worth in the market. So we shouldn’t tamper with ...s show that increases in the minimum wage put more money in the pockets of people who will spend it – resulting in more jobs, and counteracting any negativ

... wrong with getting disability checks, unless you’re angry because other people are entitled to them too. You’re nothing special Mr. Vanderboegh. You’r

...e view of a fringe party that had the support of 1 percent of the American people. Today, not only does virtually every Republican in Congress oppose raising ...e view of a fringe party that had the support of 1 percent of the American people. Today, the mainstream view of the Republican Party is that “entitlement

...ires' destructive agenda has led to increased scrutiny and resistance from people and organizations all over the United States. ...ord to your networks on sites like Facebook and Twitter, you can make more people aware of who the Kochs are and unmask the "experts" who take money from the

...in the past. Change the policies and those changes, by influencing the way people act and anticipate the future, may well strongly change or destroy the regu

There’s a reason why a lot of modern culture was produced by people living on a shoestring, from the New York intellectuals to all those poets ...s discussion, it surely should be spread around among a wider variety of people.

... on its last leg. The man has been publicly branded a pariah. The American people have made him an outcast. You think any of that would have happened if we r ...ses of alleging a climate of ‘political correctness’. Reason: even the people who are arguing that these sorts of cases are ‘political correctness’ r

{{DES | des = "[...] it is entirely possible for people who are not professional economists to have sound judgments on economic iss ...fare surrounding the 0.8% growth figure for the first quarter of 2014, but people in the United Kingdom have been living through a period worse than Japan's

1. All evil people are unattractive; all good and trustworthy people are handsome. ...traits of steely determination, with sharp chins and angular features like people in a Cubist painting. Nearly all of them are conspicuously Aryan. Here's a

{{DES | des = "It’s true that some of the people profiting from implicit taxpayer subsidies manage, all the same, to convinc It’s true that some of the people profiting from implicit taxpayer subsidies manage, all the same, to convinc

...grow now and clean up later’) partly worked for a world of 1.5 million people; it simply won’t do for a global population approaching 9 billion.

... to northern cities in the 1930s? Because vast numbers of poor rural black people gained information about better opportunities in northern cities and set ou

... amongst computer programmers. Coins are “mined” by stealing them from people who are able to comprehend this level of computer science but still keep th ...Bayesian epistemology didn’t substitute for understanding anything about people. But that’s impossible, of course. They’re probably just theists. Hold

...emphasize that the historically proven way to reduce inequality is lifting people from the bottom with human capital reform, not pushing down the top. In sho

... time. In periods when people could be bought and sold like capital, those people counted as wealth. Right now, monopoly rights over ideas (patents) and medi ...d. It's just that their legal institutions grant less rights and powers to people with regard to a variety of wealth assets. And that causes wealth to show u

...At best they hold that he concedes a Rawlsian bargain, “if the worst off people are better off than they would be under a more equal distribution of goods.

...rival, incompatible interpretations of a single political ideal. Since few people claim to be against liberty, the way this term is interpreted and defined c ...ir and others' rational interests. This allows them to say that by forcing people less rational than themselves to do the rational thing and thus to realize

...t to distinguish freedom from interference or impediments imposed by other people, which he termed “negative” freedom, and freedom from impediments withi ...mocracy, on the one hand, and totalitarianism, on the other, was framed by people on both sides as a contest between two “kinds” of freedom: the freedom

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...| des = Few actions can be undertaken in a society without affecting other people. These effects are called externalities, and they can be beneficial or cos

...straints on freedom in this way, I am unfree only to the extent that other people prevent me from doing certain things. If I am incapacitated by natural caus ..., do not restrict people's freedom, even though they undoubtedly make many people unable to do many things. This last view has been taken by a number of mark

...e simultaneously advancing the same basic narrative of free markets as the people from the Ludwig Von Mises Institute, The CATO Institute, The Heritage Found

...eir ideal society best resembles Blade Runner, but without all those Asian people cluttering up the streets. Neoreactionaries like to see themselves as the h ...n rhapsodizes on colonial rule in Southern Africa, and suggests that black people had it better under apartheid. “If you ask me to condemn [mass murderer]

...but I did once meet an Eldar in Training. I don’t know his real name but people called him Legolas. He had long blond hair, was dressed like a 19th century - The religious people in the movement (both Christians and pagans) practice what is called “ide

...e of the fact that there is an enormous wealth gap between white and black people. Gittleman and Wolff (2004) tell us this has a lot to do with intergenerati ...s a disparity with respect to control over things and, derivatively, other people.

Imagine a shared public resource like a common field where people can graze cattle. If there are too many cattle on the field, it will degrad

...s when nuclear weapons are brought up, but if they don’t the anti-weapon people will simply say that the idea of a privately owned nuke is too ludicrous to ...wn the road, what about in icy conditions? Is a railroad “pointing” at people when it transports hazardous materials?

There are quite a few CMVs here from people arguing about the effectiveness of libertarian solutions in the real world,

...me form of state-as-corporation. Even more confusingly, sometimes the same people seem to switch among the three without giving any indication they are aware ... – how much of that rise around 1970 was the “indictable offense” of people smoking marijuana, something that was previously neither illegal nor widely

{{DES | des = "In other words, the people would receive Social Security, including widows' benefits, welfare, unemplo "More and more able bodied people are becoming dependent upon the government...it will bankrupt the nation."

... gather, all you could really do was sit around and philosophize about how people might behave. A lot of useful stuff came out of that philosophizing, but a ...e more and more popular, shows many cases in which even perfectly rational people can reach a bad equilibrium that leaves plenty of “free lunches” uneate

Once upon a time, we had a dandy word for people willing to write off democracy as collateral damage in the name of the grea ...se practice makes perfect. As one former Koch exec says, “They are smart people. They learn from their mistakes.”

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

...e at the top levels, but they are also actively working to inculcate young people with their view that there is no barrier between church and state by active ...e at the top levels, but they are also actively working to inculcate young people with their view that there is no barrier between church and state by active

...t Bush is president, for they correctly see the regime's imposition on the people as itself a signal victory for their movement."3 ... me. Many see him as a manipulative politician who snowballed the American people into supporting his disastrous presidency.

...ts, property has a spiritual dimension: All things in common belong to the people of God. But in temporal matters that heavenly distribution isn't honored, a ...ts, property has a spiritual dimension: All things in common belong to the people of God. But in temporal matters that heavenly distribution isn't honored, a

...e online show says killing cops isn't murder because sometimes police kill people too VIDEO “Let’s say someone is going around stabbing people, like, just stabbing people,” Kokesh said. “It’s not murder to kill someone in that situation. An

...that they directly damaged agriculture and human health (including killing people), to say nothing of more traditional environmental concerns—practices for ...gs up.” On the contrary, they are the same people who then argue that “people make their own choices” when they “choose” to use technology whose co

...ers out of their jobs, technology might create new labor opportunities for people who haven’t acquired formal credentials or skills in an economy where low

...c discourse among the chattering classes is the opportunistic way in which people appeal to "institutions," meaning the rules and policies that comprise a co

in case he works for an employer. It is the law of property which coerces people into working for factory owners--though, as we see shortly, the workers can ...o secures for them the revenue derived from the customers. The law compels people to desist from consuming the products of the owner’s plant, except with h

...aterial resources they find around them, and so on. But with property law, people find themsleves dramatically restricted. Should you move about the world as ... them. They must serve some important psychological function. The baseline people tend to utilize is one where tons and tons of economic institutions are alr

A number of people have asked me to comment on Greg Mankiw’s defense of inherited wealth. It ...racy. You don’t have to be a radical to share this concern; not only did people like Teddy Roosevelt openly talk about this problem, so (as Thomas Piketty

... is hoped) helps organize and describe observed behavior. To claim that “people value utility” is a claim very similar to “nature abhors a vacuum”. I ..., and we could think about comparing and summing Utils enjoyed by multiple people. Classical utilitarianism made no distinction between utility and welfare.

...hear "government is bad" and "at least I can clock overtime" from the same people. You think corps would pay overtime if they didn't have to? Good Lord. ... have experience in large organizations that could and should hire more IT people but don't want to because they don't fucking want to. I know of a Fortune 5

...triking conclusion: Casino gambling had by far the most harmful effects on people at the lower end of the income ladder." | show=}}

...s what a trademark is — the team can leverage that monopoly to get other people to pay them money to use it. Vendors who want to use the word to sell shirt ... owner. We don't see them as a perpetual ongoing government battle to keep people from copying certain patterns and words, which is what it really consists o

... participatory budgeting, particularly in Latin America, suggest that when people are given a genuine voice in making key decisions, they take advantage of i ...national bond markets can dictate national policies, it is inevitable that people will start to lose faith in democratic governance and its capacity to help

...by very large economic interests of a small number of politically powerful people. ...ute, and most ancaps. Fighting fascist aggression seems to most reasonable people like a pretty clear example of a just war, so it definitely makes sense for

...ositions but to harsh economic ones. Back in the mid-nineties, many of the people most associated with the neo-con label today - David Frum and William Krist

Strongest reason for the people to...keep and bear arms... The two enemies of the people...(Quotation)

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...ncipled libertarians. Chait says they only fund climate change deniers and people who argue for policies that would make the Kochs richer. Matt Welch says Ch ...ontinue emitting carbon without limits. Those organizations employ various people who employ various arguments — outright denial of climate science, the co

... for gutting the welfare state and eliminating the tax burden of very rich people.) (Though, to be fair, libertarian ideas that don’t benefit people like Koch don’t get a fair hearing in this system, either. Because cuttin

...in and land is parceled off into mortgage-backed securities. It means rich people using their money to buy power and shape economic relations to their advant ...tervention, with financial success based not on coercion and heavily armed people with guns but healthy and fair competition. Wealth would be a just reward f

...e the limits of libertarianism. Furthermore, criticizing the ideas and the people I identify (or previously identified) with is a point of pride. Who better ...l prejudices and cultural norms may contribute. These factors don’t mean people are being outright forced to do anything, but simply that they’re constra

...the state was drastically reduced in size or even abolished. Why should be people forced to obey rules against their will? Instead everyone should be free to ...er he wants to live on his island. He may refuse smokers or pet owners or people of certain political opinion or those from certain ethnicities. His island,

...t democratic government must end in tyranny and the mass murder of its own people." | show=}} ...s that they know they can never keep (i.e., lie). This is why so few moral people are elected to political office. The most successful politicians are those

...to anything else: while I might wish to do that, it is impractical because people are very good at ignoring or misreading what they don't want to hear. ...prefer to be humble enough to restrain my claims to the arguments, and let people decide for themselves whether they should doubt libertarianism on the basis

...ent? It’s not happening: a new survey by Gallup finds both that a lot of people have gained insurance through the program and that the age mix of the new e ... days they may regain the White House. And you really, really don’t want people who reject facts they don’t like in that position. I mean, they might do

...s, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Child Tax Credit, kept 41 million people out of poverty in 2012, including 9 million children. Without government be

...de, what is it? The straightforward answer: our policies and our politics. People get tired of hearing about Scandinavian success stories, but the fact of th ...led, the banks abused our legal system to foreclose on mortgages and evict people, some of whom did not even owe money.

...of California teachers are likely “grossly ineffective”—thousands of people, who mostly teach at low-income schools—he reasoned that current tenure p

... it encourages the propagation, so it increases the industry of the common people.... A plentiful subsistence increases the bodily strength of the labourer, ...ble. Years of dearth, it is to be observed, are generally among the common people years of sickness and mortality, which cannot fail to diminish the produce

...ower of bad ideas, as long as those ideas serve the interests of the right people.

“Most people would think that 50 years after we learned that cigarette smoking causes lu ...people know that cigarette makers have historically worked to target young people with their advertising. Indeed, before increased regulation attempted to re

People have limited will power, ... to discourage substitution and hence achieve lower consumption by younger people.

...h running complex social insurance schemes among their workforce. They pay people to take time off of work for leisure (vacation), take time off of work to h

...ek II: The Wrath of Khan,'' the super-genius villain puts alien worms into people’s brains in order to subvert them to his demented cause. I think Khan cou ...contradicted by data that the belief system practically screens itself for people who are out of touch with reality.

...urities was a trust that ran railroads in the west and northwest. A lot of people saw it as a predatory monopoly, and JP Morgan was at the center of the comp ... merely have a right to go out and compete in an open market against other people making beer, without interference by any giant corporation that had capture

...in Federalist 14, James Madison wondered if it was “not the glory of the people of America, that… they have not suffered a blind veneration for antiquity ...iscover. They changed their minds and gave different accounts to different people.

...ber of failed medicines they observed. The market expanded as the stock of people buying potential cures accumulated over time. Because no one was ever cured ...cal agricultural implement or unit of illuminating gas had been in theirs, people would have been cured, search would have been reduced, and spending would h

...r robust self-ownership. This article uses the term “propertyless” for people who do not have enough external assets to maintain effective self-ownership ...veryone’s rights while letting the four principles determine what rights people have. The belief that these four principles exhaust the conditions necessar

...n whereas the cross-workplace evidence generally doesn't. Here's a theory. People will always want better pay and conditions. This is simply because they are

... Industries, is funding a public high school course designed to turn young people into "liberty-advancing agents." (Photo: Bo Rader/Wichita Eagle/MCT via Get ...rts workers and slows economic growth. Low taxes and less regulation allow people to prosper. Public assistance harms the poor. Government, in short, is the

...hor of the 1973 tract, “The Six Million Swindle: Blackmailing the German People for Hard Marks and Fabricated Corpses” and contributing editor to the rab So who exactly are the people featured or cited favorably in Reason’s holocaust denial issue, and descr

... believe in the moral value of work. But other people — potentially most people — would be glad to free up 2000 hours a year at such little cost. ... policy has to be structured — and indeed, only giving the grant to poor people would be a mistake.

The People's Republic of China passed its first modern private property law in March 2 A nail house is a Chinese neologism for homes belonging to people (sometimes called "stubborn nails") who refuse to make room for real estate

...shows that having too much ownership creates its own problems. If too many people own individual parts of a valuable asset, it’s easy to end up with gridlo ...to small, fenced-off lots, Heller shows, the more difficult we make it for people to do business and to build something new. Innovation, investment, and grow

... course for those who wish to argue on behalf of it. When you talk to such people, a familiar argumentative pattern emerges that I have come to call Capitali ... course for those who wish to argue on behalf of it. When you talk to such people, a familiar argumentative pattern emerges that I have come to call Capitali

...wealth created by slavery generalized these ideals, allowing more and more people, mostly men, to imagine themselves as autonomous and integral beings, with ...al supremacy. Paul’s statement would be totally incomprehensible to most people in Latin America, indeed the world, as silly as anything that came out of A

The people who do this kind of investing are essentially gamblers and they can lose th

...from forced participation in such an economy and that the best way to free people from forced participation is the provision of a Basic Income Guarantee. | s ...from forced participation in such an economy and that the best way to free people from forced participation is the provision of a Basic Income Guarantee.

...ery idea of America: a democracy of the people, by the people, and for the people, not a government of the corporations, by the corporations and for the corp ...e corporations, by the corporations and for the corporations. The American people agree. Americans disapprove of the Congress by an overwhelming majority. Wh

...mand. This rules out any situation where the money is jointly owned by two people, as the Rothbardian ignorantly claim. Above all, the empirical evidence shows us that business people do not really respond to interest rates in the way the ABCT predicts: inter

...United States to come to its senses and end Prohibition, 13 years in which people kept drinking, otherwise law-abiding citizens became criminals and crime sy There are no perfect answers to people’s legitimate concerns about marijuana use. But neither are there such ans

...ly sorry Reason denied the holocaust in the 1970s, and that several of the people involved in the magazine are still board members and officers in the Reason ...e involved in putting out that issue and who are still involved in Reason. People like Robert Poole (co-editor of Holocaust denier articles; current board me

...rime and violence. "Libertarians have a major problem: there are very few people indeed who would want such a society or think that it would be a good place ...s/services, and often privatised services which are too expensive for many people to afford (e.g., health care).

...stitutions]] is increasing, but that is not libertarianism. The number of people with libertarian leanings has remained constant for decades, and the Libert

...r, and I swear, it’s still 2014. Although I’m sure that there are many people in the world living in an alternative universe, I still find it startling t ...laimed that fluoride is a tool of the government, meant to “brainwash” people who consume it, while others in the “natural health” community have cla

...they’ve claimed, We stand for thrift and family, God and country. We put people to work rather than on welfare. We don’t spend recklessly; we reduce the ...eople’s property, other people’s money, other people’s labor—other people’s lives.”

...y at several sites in Honduras. In densely populated areas of over 100,000 people, citizens can reject a proposed ZEDE charter through a referendum. But for

...at even though the voices of individual Americans counted for little, most people belonged to a variety of interest groups and membership organizations – c ... shrank because Americans had less time for them. As wages stagnated, most people had to devote more time to work in order to makes ends meet. That included

The first move people make against the status quo deferentialist line is that it would mean suppo ...d be abolished. It was abolished, after all. The most obvious community of people who likely thought a radical reordering of society in the form of the aboli

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....” One of my own companies brought together the capital, technology, and people needed to enable students worldwide to access America’s leading graduate

...continues, “Three out of four people in prison are black or brown. White people do drugs too, but either they don’t get caught or they have better attorn ...gled before a predominantly black audience of young people—despite young people being among the most enthusiastic new converts to libertarianism, according

...retend that only they oppose war and that they oppose all war. Almost all people oppose war, and everybody has a point at which they will engage in war, eve

A century has passed since the start of World War I, which many people at the time declared was “the war to end all wars.” Unfortunately, wars ...t understand the arithmetic. Angell, by the way, often gets a bum rap from people who think that he was predicting an end to war. Actually, the purpose of hi

In our existing set of economic institutions, many people become employees of employers and receive a paycheck for doing so. Also in ...distribution that would result from this set of institutions would be what people like Wilkinson generally categorize as “your money.” But that’s not a

{{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

... nutshell, BIG would probably reduce how much propertyless people work for people with property; therefore, necessarily, it is bad. He dismisses Zwolinki’s ...hat nothing that is currently unpopular is ever worth the effort to change people’s minds.

{{DES | des = On poverty and right wing reactions: "[...] the way people tend to react to a rigged game -- discouragement or selective blindness --a 1. People tend to grow discouraged when the game is rigged against them.

...ant role in determining policy, ability to shape outcomes is restricted to people at the top of the income distribution and to organized groups that represen ...ions we know what citizens of average income level prefer and we know what people at the top of the income distribution say they want. For each of the 2,000

...ncoln’s reference to government “of the people, by the people, for the people,” and was labeled by Robert Dahl “populistic democracy.” 2 ...ed to test the central predictions of Economic Elite theories. To be sure, people at the 90th income percentile are neither very rich nor very elite; in 2012

...still going strong in the developing one, and killing tens of thousands of people each year." | show=}} ...ves lives and brings roofs, walls and pipes to some of the world's poorest people.

...ey were, there would be no point in writing this. They can be prevented if people realize in time where their efforts may lead…’ ...r two generations…. The change undergone by the character of the British people… can hardly be mistaken… Is it too pessimistic to fear that a generatio

...ver, he made clear that he considered the danger of presidential murder of people like himself real and imminent. ...ht be for more border security, people who support third-party candidates, people who might be in the Constitution Party.”

... in the beginning as workers adjust; that disruption becomes alarming when people don't have the means to adapt, making a lasting impact on career developmen ...with a bachelor's degree had a median net worth value nearly twice that of people with a high-school diploma in 1998--climbing to almost 3.5 times greater by

...gazine, Robert Draper profiled youngish libertarians — roughly speaking, people who combine free-market economics with permissive social views — and aske ...tort law. Corporations, he claimed, would have the incentive not to poison people because of the threat of lawsuits.

Efficiency is a word that most people would associate with economics. The field is primarily about making the mos

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...that high inequality is a drag on growth. The agency was summarizing other people’s work, not doing research of its own, and you don’t need to take its j ... growth. Opportunity is also crucial. And extreme inequality deprives many people of the opportunity to fulfill their potential.

... to regulate: A good society needs to regulate the market for land so that people are not thrown off of what they have good reason to regard as theirs even i ... demand at a high level via clever central bank financial engineering, and people will not mind that the market treats the “fictitious commodities” like

...verything belongs to everyone, or that the world belongs to all in common, people act as if you are crazy. Yet, this was Christian orthodoxy for millennia. W ...evailing Christian ideas regarding property. As I’ve pointed out before, people misread Locke as if he is some kind of hardcore absolute propertarian, but

"COLUMBUS, OH—A federal grand jury has indicted four people, alleging that they offered and accepted bribes and kickbacks as part of a

...e is shrouded in myths and misrepresentations, repeated so often that many people now assume they are true. ...blem here, and it's exacerbated by the anemic level of national saving. If people and businesses in the United States were heavy savers, modest government de

What happens when people in a society feel that all restraint by a government is a type of "bondage, ...orality and religion...Our Constitution was made for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.'' (3)

...cult or impossible to depend on markets to solve resource problems. How do people on the east coast gain compensation for the damage done by acid rain? East ...rkets will not be effective in allocating such goods. As Olson points out, people will pay for something they can get for free only when special incentives a

...d not want a professional judgment of my scientific work to be those seven people who selected me for the award").

political institutions. If people believe in UFOs, the argument goes, anarchy (these opposites often being fused by people who make

... now release the tension by flinging these empty words, thereby assaulting people while feeling inwardly that you are standing up for morality. And if they h ... commitment to the principles of nonviolence of Martin Luther King, incite people to violence, note how weak the double-standard argument is. This is the par

... focus on the cultivated use of jargon for purposes of emotionally abusing people. ...e election controversy brought quite a bit of testimony on the matter from people who are distressed at the name-calling, disregard for reality, and all-arou

...e, on a socialist test, you might see a question such as ‘Do you believe people should help each other?’ Libertarians would answer ‘yes’ to this ques ...oin. And of course there’s the LP’s principled defense of the American people against the evil Census bureau, which dares to try to reapportion congressi

You're also probably one of those people who needs to make flight reservations at the last moment, who has better th ... Sometimes it's because there are nonmarket goods involved--the high value people place on personal safety, national security, a clean environment, or social

...ho-capitalism is not truly anarchist, and is generally undesirable to most people. | show=}} ...ndle demand for what is actually the same product they have been providing people in the past.

...3 Does "free market" capitalism benefit everyone, especially working class people? C.10.4 Does growth automatically mean people are better off?

...atus that always involves. Hamilton did not oppose exploitation. Like most people of his age, he saw child labor as normal and defended the rights of credito

...the right of their people to govern themselves." Well, not quite all their people. But the plight of African-Americans does not concern Woods any more than i ...nservative") perspective, such as Paul Johnson's A History of the American People or Walter McDougall's A New American History (only the first volume has bee

[[Margaret Thatcher]] meant that she wanted people to take care of themselves privately rather than rely on government. Howev

Fact: Two or more people in a cooperative relationship form a society by definition. Whenever two or more people enter any sort of cooperative relationship, the result is by definition a s

...a bad thing” is a triply untrue statement, but it feels true to a lot of people. And, yes, a tendency to prefer truthiness to more complicated truth is and

...e force. Gun control is absolute. Attendance is limited to a set number of people who can afford the not-cheap tickets. The very layout of Black Rock City is ...alley entrepreneurs… “Now, we have the craziest chefs in the world and people who build yurts for us that have beds and air-conditioning.” He added wit

...hen, it can be said to act as does any other owner who sets down rules for people living on his property.

...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

...h, these people held the world on their shoulders. Only she believed these people had the right to rule that world — not politically, but economically — ...ide of myself that I had never fully acknowledged: my inner asshole. Other people? Fuck ’em. When you’re a young, precocious introvert, and it’s easy t

...right-wing billionaire co-owners of Koch Industries. As two of the richest people in the world, they are key funders of the right-wing infrastructure, includ

{{Other URL | url = http://www.people-press.org/2014/06/26/the-political-typology-beyond-red-vs-blue/}} The Political Typology sorts people into groups based on their attitudes and values, not their partisan labels.

...arian” means, and our surveys find that, on many issues, the views among people who call themselves libertarian do not differ much from those of the overal When it comes to attitudes about the size and scope of government, people who say the term libertarian describes them well (and who are able to corre

...that government assistance to the poor “does more good than harm because people can’t get out of poverty until their basic needs are met.” For foreign

...blame the government about, but the government is the one institution that people can change... the one institution that you can affect without institutional

...e bail out even though Ayn "despised government interference and felt that people should and could live independently... She didn't feel that an individual s

...Property is a social construct, and no society of his time or ours treated people's bodies as their own property: there were always major differences. Locke # Two people working together to mix labor simultaneously.

...gration during his inaugural address in 1963: "In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the ga ...egation which kept in place the political and economic privileges of white people.

Now I'm not saying that people who do Civil War reenactments or even people who are just really into Confederate history and nostalgia are like the fol ...h the people at the Cato Institute or Reason magazine or most of the other people tied to the libertarian movement or Libertarian party going back forty year

...th Carolina to enact laws against abortion. And he sponsored the “We the People Act,” which proposed stripping the federal courts of jurisdiction in case ...and have endeared him to a generation of young libertarians (and even some people on the Left). As Paul’s collaborator Lew Rockwell has written, “The you

... Rejecting nullification as an option does not mean that the states or the people have no recourse. The Constitution itself lays out the best path to change

So you can see, libertarianism can attract two types of people: ...rovided that such expression does not trample on the same freedom of other people to choose their own sexual preference or religious freedom. Yet, there has

...erson. There are then only two alternatives: either (1) a certain class of people, A, have the right to own another class, B; or (2) everyone has the right t ...ast some of their means and ends for them. Many physically or mentally ill people couldn’t possibly survive or flourish unless others chose their means and

...elf-ownership be taken as axiomatic, nor wise as a strategy for convincing people to accept a political philosophy that is extremely controversial (as anarch ...me of other people but not able to own themselves.” Rather, they involve people who do own themselves at least partially while also having partial ownershi

...ve internal criticism is focused. I know that when I was a left-lib, these people were my most common target of criticism. I was greatly dissapointed to find ...hey will never be the kind of libertarians that can particularly appeal to people outside academia. The most radical voices are the handful of left-libertari

Lately, many people I know have argued that "free markets" mean something more. They see market ...lavery. Both were viewed simply as cheap sources of labor. It wasn't until people fought against child labor and slavery that these things became unacceptabl

...r fair share of taxes, and have a huge variety of advantages over ordinary people for avoiding taxes. | show=}} ...ate, even though its working headquarters will remain in Miami. The little people—the millions of us who pay our taxes week to week—will pick up some of

Lauck needed to sell a product that people either did not want or could not afford. His solution would haunt men for g

...te sector will do it for them. That's why during the McCarthy years so few people went to jail. Two hundred tops. Because it was in the workplace that Torque

...-raging of Milo Yiannopoulos” is not accepted as an excuse by these same people. ...s temporarily taken down by a flood of complaints to YouTube by those same people who are so vocal about their inviolable right to express themselves however

...e what the state does, they just object to who's doing it. This is why the people most victimized by the state display the least interest in libertarianism.

| text = Some people giving orders and others obeying them: this is the essence of servitude. Of

Frankly, some people benefit economically from exploiting racial discrimination—for example sh ...te when an in-group benefits from social exclusion, like how light-skinned people in particular are more prone to racial distinctions when they perceive econ

...tely recognized the source as a former employee who had threatened to tell people "like me" about the problem if they did not pay him hush money. (The emaile ...from the project other than the speaking fee.) The alleged purpose was for people to finalize the selection of lots and other paperwork. No selection took pl

Only 5 million people live in Norway, but thanks to the country’s careful management of its oil

...n package the other day, that's just going to make things worse, uh. These people believe in all the wrong things. ...Now there is not only confirmation that he went to the Koch event, but the people of Arkansas can hear his hosts applauding excitedly about his voting agains

...edman’s opinion, without the FDA corporations would be kept from hurting people by fear of lawsuits and thus self-regulate. ...rians decry any suggestion that regulations should be tightened, insisting people have the right to arm themselves to make themselves safer. But the statisti

...-workers' esteem. Government employees, like most human beings, don't want people around them to hold them in contempt. As a result, a solid core of motivat

...xplained the common argumentative strategy I call Capitalism Whack-a-Mole. People who utilize this strategy claim that they support capitalism for a specific Freeland starts off with a desert-like framework, objecting to people who get income without working (“freeloaders”). Naturally, I point out

...onsistent. That’s a virtue some of his peers in that community lack. But people should understand: this idea isn't an outlier in the libertarian world. It Not only are these good people “parasites” in this libertarian view, they are deliberately parasitical

...on, it must rely not on superstars but on improving the skills of ordinary people.

...rtising dollars or subscription fees alone, which is why each year it begs people to send checks, like common hobos.)

...let alone data. At this point it’s a cultural cliche, or a projection by people who read Atlas Shrugged in their teens and never grew up." | show=}} ...on Route 1 many times, and while I’ve sometimes had to wait a while, the people have been generally helpful and the lines have moved fast.

...s because they've played a critical role in making capitalism work for the people who make capitalism work.

...ent in the areas of voluntary and contractual relations among individuals. People should not be forced to sacrifice their lives and property for the benefit ...portunity to exercise it. Libertarian policies will create a society where people are free to make and learn from their own decisions.

{{DES | des = Polls show that people who claim to be libertarians don't know what they are talking about by the ...rtarians polled, 42% believe that police should be able to stop and search people who "look like criminals," and 26% think “homosexuality should be discour

People often ask, “Why is Jonathan Chait so mean?” It is a fair question, one I’m actually not incapable of disagreeing with people without insulting their intelligence, motives, or other qualifications. I e

.... Hence the intellectual marketplace for arguments that we should tax rich people less is glutted with hackery.

...are caused by tobacco.” (In fact, tobacco use kills more than 5 million people a year worldwide.) ...e Koch brothers. Until we better understand what they do, and what sort of people they are, and how they’ve actually operated according to the record, rath

When I was 15, I was that kid people wanted to punch in the face. I sent emails to Wolf Blitzer and Glenn Beck a ...cial sphere, results in corruption and abuse more often than not. But when people ask me where I stand ideologically, I cringe at the thought of responding w

...ght for $19 billion WhatsApp, a messaging service that reaches 450 million people and has only fifty-five employees. The possibility remains that competition

What's less clear is that people in Europe and Japan are less free. Getting good health advice from your doc (Actually in some ways we live healthier lifestyles than people in other countries. We smoke less, for example. Obesity is the main differe

...e, in themselves and absolutely, preferable to others. It is the needs of people, the revolt of a class, which define aims and goals.”1 ...s: Eight, Bob. So that means when I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it. That’s my only real motivation is not to b

...ticle about the evaluation system for teachers in New York State, I wince. People get it wrong so very often. Yesterday’s New York Times article written by ...ly needs to learn something about statistics. For that matter, so do other people who drag out this “blame the teacher” line whenever they see poor perfo

Among other things, Hale deconstructed the hand waving way in which people talk about economic coercion and voluntary economic behavior. Using a funct What’s amusing about libertarians and laissez-faire people (and the loose way certain economists talk) is that they will describe my c

...n a great measure the natural result of that crime which has precluded the people from other available resources. That the innocent suffer with the guilty, i

...re Confederacy, dispossessing the slave-owning aristocrats in favor of the people whose unpaid labor had created their wealth. ... been with us ever since: Early in Reconstruction, white and black working people sometimes made common cause against their common enemies in the aristocracy

... Whiggish morality play featuring the inevitable triumph of the democratic people over the special interests. However, Kolko took his cues from Veblen, Marx, ...ebellum America – a literature on which I build in my own monograph, The People’s Welfare: Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America (Chapel Hill:

... regulators human capital is highly industry specific and the best job for people holding that specific human capital are with the regulated. Hence, the desi ...applying some of that knowledge. The popularity and support among business people or the government gives credibility to a piece of research and the

...Valley venture capitalist and PayPal co-founder. He considers non-wealthy people to be losers, and thus undeserving of having their problems and interests a

...eter Thiel is the attempt to redefine “public intellectual” to include people like Thiel who found companies like PayPal:

In fact, many of the people who invented New Keynesian economics were politically conservative, and dee ...rvention -- then recessions won’t be a big problem, and angry unemployed people won’t demand more lasting government interventions.

...I generalized to the rest of the country and estimated that it’s robbing people of more than $50 billion each year. And even that may be a low figure, give

...aps the most straightforward of these goldbugs come across as simple sales people – perhaps even con artists – looking to sell readers, listeners and vie ...and overlap with softcore (and not so softcore) conspiracy theorists. Such people also push the idea of hyperinflation but add in conspiracies involving dumb

... going to try to make sure, through contractual terms and monitoring, that people hired are [to] be consistent with ‘donor Intent.’”

...starts. Then later there's running, and then screaming." Where once We the People held capitalism's leash, now we wear the collar.

...India's Great Famine of 1876–78. The result is estimated at 5.5 million people dead. | show=}} ...oadblocks were hastily established to stem the flood of stick-thin country people into Bombay and Poona, while in Madras the police forcibly expelled some 25

But would it have mattered if economists had behaved better? Or would people in power have done the same thing regardless?

...t could obscure the material deprivations that workers and other exploited people experience in their daily lives.

... off to an inauspicious start. Although the book’s principal plea is for people to “live” economics passionately, it begins with a rhetorical assault o Murray Rothbard is generally a familiar face, but people typically caricature him as a boisterous movement libertarian. In contrast,

We think of authors as people who lay themselves bare in their books, but perhaps reviewers of books reve ...laveowners probably didn’t mistreat their slaves so much, since enslaved people were actually valuable capital. Then the reviewer illustrated that point wi

...hey afford it without jobs?"</p><p>"Its easy." said Amabo. "We'll give the people without jobs government handouts."</p><p>"But what about the dignity of wor

...ght, not with austerity but with liberality—with policies that encourage people to spend more, not less. Nor is this merely an academic argument: The hango ...ual to total income (every sale is also a purchase, and vice versa). So if people decide to spend less on investment goods, doesn't that mean that they must

...case for state intervention. But liberalism, as I define it, means as many people as possible should have as much say as feasible over the direction their li ...of mercantilism created a situation in which free markets could both allow people greater control over their lives and at the same time spread that capacity

... I felt I needed to say as much because everywhere I go, the moment I tell people that I have written a book about liberalism, I am invariably asked which of I try to explain to people that in my book I reject any such distinction and argue instead for the exi

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...ent. Businesses operate free from the burden of regulation or bureaucracy. People lean on each other to establish and enforce standards of public behavior. I ...ent. Businesses operate free from the burden of regulation or bureaucracy. People lean on each other to establish and enforce standards of public behavior. I

...atic political environments where governments are accountable to their own people; the rule of law prevails; and freedoms of expression, association, and bel

...country or another. The weather (some like hot weather, others don't), the people (e.g. you've married someone from Thailand and decided to move there, or th ...owever, the libel laws in the country are such that politicians often take people who speak out against them to court and sue them, which sort of means you n

...t at issue [conflict of interest] as having as much importance as you (and people generally) attach to it. In a debate it is the arguments that should matter

You mostly hear this from people on the right, who normally say that free-market economies are endlessly fle

...s that theory, and explains the practice of human sacrifice among the same people whose reliance on ritual immolation the work pointed to above suggests is i ... poverty. For example, Scott (2009) documents this pursuit among the Zomia people of Southeast Asia who choose to live at near subsistence levels. Gyp- sies,

...t representative thundered. If the nation needs it, “the property of the people . . . belongs to the government .” The Republican Congress passed the ...thin, prompting the GOP to throw its support behind America’s wealthiest people and to blame those who fall behind for their own poverty.

...hese as may stalk the nightmares of those who think little about people as people, but tend to think a great deal in labels and effigies. (And neither Right ...rs” loot because they believe in Robin Hood, and have got a lot of other people believing in him, too. Robin Hood is the author’s image of absolute evil

...inochet years or the last season of Welcome Back, Kotter. And not just any people. The Elect. Get this: select people are disappearing into the ether. And the rest of the world is left staggeri

...htlessness, as the story of migrating Kurds, Vietnamese and Caribbean boat people, and many others should by now have made abundantly clear.

...nomists predicted the 2008 crisis — and the handful who did tended to be people who also predicted crises that didn’t happen. More significant, many and ...The Wealth of Nations,” and he probably didn’t mean to say what most people now think he said. But never mind: Today the phrase is almost always used t

...The Wealth of Nations,” and he probably didn’t mean to say what most people now think he said. But never mind: Today the phrase is almost always used t

...n to fight against persistent dengue fever infections, which kill maybe 30 people a year? In a city of 4.5 million but sicken many more. There’s giant ads

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...h rationality. Economics should build into its assumptions the notion that people can give credible commitments to a course of conduct. He demonstrates the a ...rice Godelier[14] have demonstrated that in traditional societies, choices people make regarding production and exchange of goods follow patterns of reciproc

...es.[4] It has also been found that delaying the responder's decision makes people reject "unfair" offers much less often.[5] The only animals that show simil People whose serotonin levels have been artificially lowered will reject unfair of

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“Vehicles, though, are not the major police department expense — people are. Over 90% of a typical police department budget consists of salaries an ...anyone keep the stats on this today? Good luck trying to find it. How many people are killed, injured, or violated by private cops? How many private security

...re where ordinary people will save money on clothes and cleaning expenses. People marvel at the invention at first, but soon everyone is against him: the tex ..., lower-price products and higher-quality, higher-price products, and what people want to buy will have a substantial effect on what gets produced. But in th

...their unconstitutionality was gunned down, joining the long list of decent people killed as a result of the US-endorsed coup.

...cross the country, law enforcement agents stop motorists – predominantly people of color – and seize the money in their possession simply by asserting th

2 A cheap holiday in other people's misery ...e camels everywhere. What it does mean, however, is that they get to watch people on televisions with all of these goods, and become envious of not having ac

It has also become popular among people protesting the War on Drugs[2] (the producers of the HBO crime drama The Wi Advocacy of jury nullification as a means of protesting laws with which people disagree is often done out of opposition to those laws. Yet, as a strategy,

...9/11, as well as his increasingly wanky ego-gazing as he acknowledges that people aren't so crazy about him anymore." | show=}} ... well as his increasingly wanky ego-gazing[12][13] as he acknowledges that people aren't so crazy about him anymore.

...that seems intuitively good, but like many phrases introduced by groups or people with partisan political goals, is actually a code for an agenda. | show=}} ...that seems intuitively good, but like many phrases introduced by groups or people with partisan political goals,[1] is actually a code for an agenda.

...prised, without exception, of farsighted, patient, and completely rational people of uncompromising self-restraint and discipline, committed to the maintenan

...tated that if some one believes in a right to health care... that it means people have the right to the homes of hospital staff and enslave them.[16] Time to ...s Act of 1964 should never have been passed. He later backtracked, telling people that he was not a racist. Again, he just thought that the Act was harmful t

...e standing up to say that taking nude photos of passengers, and feeling up people's grandmothers, is not making anyone safer.[7] He proposed a simple law whi ... and Christian Reconstructionist movements.[10] Paul introduced the We the People Act into the House of Representatives twice. This bill would strip federal

...re international waters, outside the jurisdiction of any one country, some people see seasteading as the most viable possibility for creating new, autonomous ...re international waters, outside the jurisdiction of any one country, some people see seasteading as the most viable possibility for creating new, autonomous

...g a social conservative. Because Rockwell supports policies that would let people smoke doobies while screwing hookers, but actually opposes these acts, he c ...avored the elimination of drunk driving laws, claiming that they persecute people solely for having a particular chemical in their bloodstream.

"Do you believe people have a "right" to healthcare?" Highest result: "No" with 59% of the vote (5 ↑ http://www.lp.org/poll/do-you-believe-people-have-a-right-to-healthcare

The ideal "free market" society of such people, it seems, is simply actually existing capitalism, minus the regulatory and ...liers are a better deal than anyone else is offering. It's the same reason people line up for "sweatshop" jobs in developing countries. Far from contributing

...ch represent peoples' subjective value of goods) is distributed across all people (economic calculators) because value is subjective and thus different for e

...e head of the Institute writing some rather interesting things about black people.[3] In addition, it has a rather interesting interpretation of the American

...s a point in his favour: surely, given what we know now (and clear-sighted people realized then), opposition to one of the most murderous regimes in history ...rights of their citizens on behalf of morality or security, or wage war on people in the name of their freedom, Berlin’s work warns us to be sceptical and

...vance everybody's happiness. If other contracts would make people happier, people would enter into those contracts instead. ...er the economic consequences of reducing their pools of potential workers. People will freely enter into the contracts that best advance their happiness whil

People who say they are libertarians, but dutifully pull the lever for most anyone ...ay. They typically want to trim and gut the party platform to attract more people, and/or disseminate an oversimplified version of the libertarian message in

...ial thought. It formulates and codifies the immutable ground rules for all people, everywhere, who wish to live together in peace. ...erences between individuals and, by implication, between various groups of people, and that what appear to be such differences are due solely to environmenta

...l of the market, and finds many false claims. "For the truth is that when people talk about what markets demand, what they’re really doing is trying to bu All in all, it’s hard to escape the conclusion that people like Mr. Greenspan knew as much about what the market wanted as medieval cr

... having a serious discussion about the effects of quantitative easing, but people like Paul Ryan and Cliff Asness are not part of that discussion, because no

...book tours); you buy a book because you’ve heard about it, because other people are reading it, because it’s a topic of conversation, because it’s made

...riving around the block to a Circle K for a six-pack. But that is not most people’s experience of labor markets. The reality is that competition for worker Although many people find the stylized account of how labor markets function that’s presented

...mpirical social science seriously are the ethics and self-awareness of the people doing the work. The tables that will be published in a journal article or r ...high stakes. It may serve to guide — or at least justify — policy. The people who have an interest in a skeptical vetting of research may not have the re

...ng co-op]. Cryptocurrency applications deal with the problem of organizing people and their resources into a collaborative enterprise by issuing tokens to th

...ome Sequencing,” Researchers used whole-exome sequencing on 19 Taiwanese people who had upper urinary tract cancers and were exposed to the aristolochic ac ...isease could be eliminated if tighter regulations were in place to prevent people from buying aristolochic acid online and abroad.

...t included a class action waiver in ALLCAPS; afterward, four times as many people thought they could still participate in class actions as realized that they

...ow to erect an effective tax system to which at least the vast majority of people would subscribe. However, that is hardly the case, and tax policy remains ...ournals of opinion, and other public forums. In short, the ideas ordinary people carry around in their heads are enormously important.

When President Bush, promoting tax cuts, says people's incomes belong to them and not the government, the authors of this book s ... characterizes taxes as sheer waste, an unfair drag on the most productive people and an evil.

... (e.g. p. 34).1 For pre-tax income and property should not be seen as what people are morally entitled to since this can only be defined after a fair tax sys ... system cannot hope to be neutral in its incentive effects with regards to people’s economically significant decisions about work,

...ple without access to health care, decent housing, and education, and more people facing food insecurity (often consuming cheap foods that contribute to obes

... that crashed in 2008. The Great American Dream that so mesmerized working people around the globe, is no more. And it will never return until we realize tha

Pity the American people for imagining that they have just elected the new Congress. In a formal way Why does the actual vote count for so little? People vote for individuals, not directly for policies. They may elect a politicia

Should we really encourage people to become more rational, as nudge theory says? Two things I've seen in my d ...eater extent. I suspect that point generalizes to some extent. Encouraging people to save for retirement, for example, causes some to save too much.

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...bitration panel ["tribunal"] composed of corporate lawyers, at which other people have no representation, and which is not subject to judicial review. ...ris is suing governments in Uruguay and Australia for trying to discourage people from smoking. The oil firm Occidental was awarded $2.3bn in compensation fr

Yet this crime is being completely neglected by people leading education policy – from the Obama administration all the way down ...the gaps in opportunity and achievement” that afflict far too many young people, especially those from low-income families or who are black, Latino or Amer

...Hungary). They, because of the large size of Russia, comprise 160 million people and represent the dominant of our four groups. Some 40% of transition count ...c, Slovenia, Turkmenistan, Lithuania and Romania. They include 40 million people (10% of transition countries’ total). Their growth rates have been betwee

...n ways you prefer or eat foods you happen to like or do business only with people you approve of. Maybe, in the end, you’re right. But on election day espe ...ons, provided those decisions don’t entail violating the rights of other people. When you vote, you’re articulating, to however small a degree, this pers

...ccountable seems obvious, especially considering the difficulty many young people have finding work. These rules, however, are likely to disqualify about 1,4

... 1 am this morning to rip the constitution to shreds, to rape the American people and to nationalize medicine." ... attacks in Norway committed by Anders Breivik, she claimed that the young people killed were bound to become "leaders of the party responsible for flooding

...ing "known" drug dealers, to buy luxury cars using fake identities. Eleven people who worked for the dealership, including Tsiropoulous, were arrested, but G ...ogne], described as a successor group to the neo-fascist German League for People and Homeland. Pro Köln at the time was under investigation by the German a

...tate derives no inconsiderable advantage from [the education of the common people. If instructed they are] . . . less liable to the delusions of enthusiasm a

Misconception that the education system is more tailored towards creating people who want to be rewarded with capitalistic benefits detached from society ra Non-Market based solutions: Educate people about importance of education

Almost as soon as the feudal laws tying people to the land started breaking down governments began to legislate. The Statu

...w well off people are in pre-property-rights societies, and how much freer people are under capitalism than in pre-property-rights societies. | show=}} ...ly involves either rights violations or implausible assumptions about what people have consented

A guiding principle of libertarian socialism is that all people must have the equal privilege to share in the blessings of liberty, and thi ...lized coordination system that allows for voluntary mutual aid so that all people have the same access to use the means of production toward their own ends (

...he rich, who essentially own market institutions. It's as if the ordinary people are the players, and the rich are the house at a casino. And speaking of t

1 John Ranelagh, Thatcher’s People. An Insider’s Account of the Politics, the Power and the Personalities (H 2 Ranelagh, Thatcher’s People. An Insider’s Account of the Politics, the Power and the Personalities, i

...ernation when it comes time to file a Federal income tax return. For most people, this is because the Federal income tax is the largest single tax they pay If that was your reaction, you must be one of those 2 or 3 people left in North America that hasn't read "The Story of the Buck Act", by Rich

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...exploitation, and injustice despite other policies in place to help them. People who have no other option but to work for someone else to meet their basic n

...es/stuff) you have. This means poor people have the least liberty and rich people have the most liberty." | show=}} ...e terms related to the index of things a property system eventually allows people to do).

...ical examples of exposed conspiracies do exist and it may be difficult for people to differentiate between reasonable and dubious assertions. In this work, w ...xplain some event or practice by reference to the machinations of powerful people, who attempt to conceal their role (at least until their aims are accomplis

... nothing about fairness, and almost any model of trade will show that some people, industries and regions lose out. If most Americans experience slight gains

...orth noting that they found no evidence that the big 1981 tax cuts induced people to work more.

...th knowledge about labor conditions. Over time, he interviewed hundreds of people, watched inspections occur, and catalogued Argentina’s intricate regulato ... says Amengual. “But it was enforcement nonetheless that did matter for people’s lives.”

...e lower costs, because the insurance is delivered as a public entitlement, people would not lose coverage when they lose their job or when their income takes ...away their money, they complain and they lobby. And it turns out that most people have more confidence in doctors than they do in members of Congress, so not

...uld go one step further, and Block has, with having 'murder parks' wherein people can murder each other voluntarily. If this is possible, and it seems correc

... so. Liberals want to help the poor and unlucky, conservatives want to let people keep their hard-earned income, and there’s no right answer to this debate ...ense of too many voters that good government is simply a giveaway to Those People.

...liminates the evil inflation. What? It can cause unemployment? Well, those people just need to try harder. Social Security: Government Ponzi scheme. Screw old people, privatize it.

...e finally have enough numbers to prove that it’s stupid and causing more people to have more serious injuries.

... rare genius as long as we stoke the competitive instincts of the smartest people around and persuade them to share their discoveries, in exchange for a shot

...ek to maximise their own success, the results of economic games have shown people to be much more altruistic than expected. ...of experiments carried out by evolutionary biologists at Oxford found that people are just as generous towards computers, which cannot benefit materially fro

Secondly, some people have double standards here. Whereas there has been opposition to increases ...ll behave untrustworthily. I, though, have another concern. It’s that if people are closely monitored they might lose initiative and energy.

...mists have been closing the gap by calling attention to the many ways that people depart from the assumptions of Homo economicus, although most behavioral ec ...ionary Political Economy provides a model of cordial open-mindedness among people exploring different perspectives. The need for that has not changed between

...rket ideological bent. So this paper isn't merely a case of pro-regulation people pushing their own agenda and Goldschlag and Tabarrok’s paper is a stern r

...HO), every year 100 million people are pushed into poverty and 150 million people suffer financial hardship because of out-of-pocket expenditure on health se ...ach that prioritises specific populations (e.g. the poorest in society, or people in informal employment) by offering them a broader range of services (Nicho

...t “most people are better off in a free market economy, even though some people are rich and some are poor.” Even in those few countries, the margin of o ...d elsewhere have closed some of the gap with rich countries. The number of people living in extreme poverty has plunged, even as the world's population has c

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At the same time, public o cials and people around the globe have experienced the failures of water privatization rsth ... the city’s Water Division. They packed public hearings with hundreds of people voicing their concerns over Veolia’s business practices and water privati

... thought in political economy to the Irish famine in which a million or so people died, and a million emigrated. ...n a great measure the natural result of that crime which has precluded the people from other available resources. That the innocent suffer with the guilty, i

... more transparency - and the greater the number of participants - the more people can come up with relatively accurate models and act upon them... or acutely ...It is also the way to maximize competitive output, by ensuring that bright people and teams get second, third chances and so on. And creating ever-flowing op

...ere. The aggregate national reduction may still be achieved, but many more people in the densely populated east could be exposed to pollutants.

...n ideas have already been tried in the western US and were a disaster. For people, for the environment, and for markets. Private towns, company stores, "home

...n ideas have already been tried in the western US and were a disaster. For people, for the environment, and for markets. Private towns, company stores, "home ...d to read and for the feedback. I honestly wish this hadn't been x-posted. People in other subs think I'm trying to win converts or something with this.... b

...oerce them to stop. The libertarian's car is taken and he is upset to find people living in his house and taking his stuff. ... make the world a capitalist utopia; for everything to be property and all people to respect property without coercion. The genie says "So be it!" and poof,

...hen, it can be said to act as does any other owner who sets down rules for people living on his property.

Most people are comfortable thinking about libertarianism in connection with the idea o C) We ought not cut people’s heads off?

...ull liberal property over everything, that has never existed and that most people would not want. See also Proudhon's [[What Is Property? An Inquiry into the ...ticular object, I can claim the same object and so can multitudes of other people. And you cannot stop them from doing so without coercion. Unenforced clai

...nal Science Foundation (Grant Number SBR-95 21918), the Forests, Trees and People Programme at FAO, and the Ford Foundation is gratefully acknowledged. I am ...important for the sustainability of a resource system—thus allowing more people over time to have access to resources. Both private and common property can

...’re both wrong,” said a third. “Property is Impossible!” How such people got along with each other is amazing. More so, since it was the same man, Other People Are Not Your Property

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Secondly, people have a strong urge for fairness. If they cannot achieve this through market That said, it doesn’t follow that people who want greater income equality will necessarily promote economic freedom:

...ng a basis for political unity and allegiance. It was seen that inevitably people will have conflicting religious views, and that for governments to try to e property rights in particular things.'2 People might involuntarily forfeit certain liberties upon committing a crime that

...y, libertarians have no place for the impartial administration of justice. People's rights are selectively protected only to the extent they can afford prote

...pothetical). These are natural rights and duties, libertarians claim, that people possess independent of social interaction. Despite their emphasis on consen

...the libertarian phi- losophy is logically incompatible with the latter. If people would simply refrain from “aggressing against the person or property of a ...ion of libel. The difficulty with such legislation is that it entails that people properly own their own repu- tations. But this is highly problematic (Block

... rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."). When interpreted using original intent or original meaning, it clearly ...detailing non-enumerated rights as the sole property of the states and the people, is often cited as the clarification for this inconsistency and the reason

...re very cruel and very unusual (instead we opt for the option of depriving people of their freedom for extended periods of time). Also, if one fails to adjus

...orce or not." And then "defensive force" simply means "violently attacking people in a way that is consistent with the libertarian theory of entitlement." T

... twitter user 1st year Phil major. In the post, Richman explains that most people already agree with libertarians. How so? ...of ground that a libertarian claims ownership over. Suppose I contend that people cannot own pieces of ground because nobody makes them. In my walking on the

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... I pointed out that libertarians are huge fans of initiating force against people (I, II). Initiation of force is, after all, what underlies all private prop ... big blow to your self-concept. There is not much you can do to help these people, not that they care anyways.

... capitalism of being coercive and causing patterns of deprivation, certain people lose their shit. This is especially true of the libertarian crowd, which is People who don’t like this message (in my experience) like to dismiss it as some

...lem of social conflict? And let me emphasize the word “real” here. The people I have in mind, deliberating on this question, are not zombies. They do not What people would most likely accept as a solution, then, I suggest, is this: Everyone

...of bodily restraint. Being able to walk about the world freely and without people stopping you and saying you can't go here or there is a fairly appealing no ...oving about the world freely somehow gets recategorized as violating other people's liberty. Even worse, moving about the world freely is even recategorized

...oving about the world freely somehow gets recategorized as violating other people's liberty. Even worse, moving about the world freely is even recategorized

...kets in high-income countries28 and the high global average of income that people spend on food (20%) has caused the alcohol and ultra-processed food and dri ...er of people strengthens, unhealthy commodities become more affordable; as people have less time, convenience of these products becomes important, which enha

Some people are worried about harms from vaccines. Yes, they exist (though they are ra

...y, as though the world were coming to an end, even though small numbers of people get measles every year and nobody was dying from the illness. Yet, as award ...ems” associated with the vaccine program. Which infectious agents should people vaccinate against? For example, should (as is currently the case) the risky

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...be shown yet again) that vitamin supplementation is not necessary for most people, nor does it decrease the risk of heart disease or cancer, and I can’t, a There would be no argument against allowing people to refuse vaccination if they and their families would suffer alone the con

...usinesses to avoid an increase by moving, a question with implications for people all over the country — from Olympia, Wash., to Lexington, Ky., to Bangor,

came to realize that the people to whom they had given receipts for gold they held for safekeeping were usi ...ractional reserve] system were felt every day in every part of London; and people were no more disposed to relinquish those advantages for fear of calamities

...says that the state has no right to restrict freedom of movement, and that people from other countries should be just as free to move to this country as we a ... be controlled by the free market, and the government has a right to check people as they come into a country. These libertarians might be in favor of unlimi

The reason that professionals and middle class people – say, doctors or university lecturers – can generally stave off such c ...tion per se. We are not talking about, say, limited immigration of skilled people in an economy at full employment and suffering genuine labour shortages, wh

...s with the following statement: “Property rights concern relations among people regarding control of valued resources.” JOSEPH WILLIAM SINGER, PROPERTY L government. But if property is social, involving relations between people, and if property

...ositives distracts our attention from the less-appealing reality that many people may always and only be those “dutyholders” whose behavior is subject to

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... time, as in the case of present and future interests, and among different people, as in the case of concurrent interests (e.g., joint tenancies) and common ...ion between people and things, but about the connections between and among people.

...ing that abstaining from consumption is not producing and that he had said people are only owed what they produce.

This is how people are drawn into the alternative universe of the Patriots, a world in which t ...strously, palpably evil. Then they learn about Patriot legal theories from people like the Freemen or from Schroder and DeMott:

...tions or just a few big super-countries overseeing hundreds of millions of people each? If bigger is better, what about a global government? ...s, essentially -- offered different packages of taxes and public services. People would vote with their feet, going to the place that suited them the most.

...j, where gj is the level of public service in regionj, nj is the number of people there, and Lj is the quantity of labor devoted to the production of the pub ...ng each region its optimal number of people, there would be relatively few people left over. In fact, as will become clear in the next section, there would h

...taxes through secrecy and international variations of laws, while ordinary people must pay their taxes. Unjust freeloading and invitations to government cor

...re state is more than just a safety net. It's a foundation on top of which people can build their lives... Old-age pensions, paid family leave, child care be

... more wealth than is owned by the poorer half of the world’s 7.4 billion people.

...negotiation of trade agreements to reflect better the interests of working people. But such arguments immediately run up against the objection that any stand

...erizon’s case isn’t unique. In recent years many economists, including people like Larry Summers and yours truly, have come to the conclusion that growin

magine if the people of the Soviet Union had never heard of communism. The ideology that dominat ... to Serfdom was widely read. It came to the attention of some very wealthy people, who saw in the philosophy an opportunity to free themselves from regulatio

... Freedom from tax means freedom from the distribution of wealth that lifts people out of poverty.

...how small loans could unlock endless opportunities for the world's poorest people. ...hom, microfinance had been "of real, rather than imagined, benefit to poor people", it said, suggesting political scientists should examine what had fuelled

...-compete clause in their contract to build and operate the toll lanes. The people of California were legally blocked from improving their highways because it ...P3 model is different from what we usually think of as privatization. Most people define privatization as the actual private ownership of roads, bridges, por

The new meter regime sparked mass outrage. People held protests and threatened to boycott. But there was little recourse: The ...id. "There's still a lot of pressure to outsource, but the trend we see is people trying to fix the process and do it better, because of some of the high-pro

...ociety in the 1950s, and then Pat Buchanan and his followers in the 1990s. People like Continetti and Young are trying to do the same thing to the alt-right. ... actually like the term "democracy." He prefers "demotism," or rule of the people, a label under which he sweeps modern-day developed democracies like the US

...usinesses would be perfectly capable of building roads to nowhere or roads people do not really need, so just because a government might occasionally make mi

...’re in the business of bestowing freedom, why not try to give to as many people as possible, right?

... point doesn’t make that point of central importance, here or elsewhere. People should know what’s in the textbook; above all, they should buy my book! B ...wer that comes from standard trade models – is, not as important as many people seem to think. Yes, protectionism reduces world income. But if you want to

...s, increase growth, and spin off some revenues. That said, such reasonable people stop far short of claiming tax cuts will come anywhere close to offsetting ...mic conditions (for example, temporary tax cuts for low- and middle-income people are likely to be growth-inducing during recessions but through demand-side,

...n to take a stand against that government. “We’re out here because the people have been abused long enough,” as Ammon Bundy put it; “their lands and ...ol them, then they can be the beneficiaries of them, and then the American people have to practically beg them for whatever they give them.

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Lots of people are worried about noncompete clauses in employment contracts. And after tak Perhaps for this reason, lots of people speculate that noncompetes explain much of the difference between the Silic

...rimoires, from books of magic spells they have selfishly withheld from the people. " | show=}} ...slators and lawyers switched their own false law for the real law when the people weren't looking. But the real law, the Common Law, lives still, for it is d

...ents were opposed to this practice, believing it to be unfair, in New York people were much more tolerant of price hikes than they were in 1990 and more acce ...idn’t ask about it, but I can imagine. On the other hand, there are many people who are angered by Uber.

...e wrong people because it is non- transferable." Ah yes, only the quality people who can afford to buy a franchise should vote, to improve the value of the The right to vote is a property right which is owned by the wrong people because it is non- transferable. If the right to vote were a more conventio

...ction, needlessly creates huge friction, and builds senseless barriers for people attempting to solve problems and deal with life challenges. ...nefit of the most effective method for ensuring peaceful cooperation among people: the principle of property rights.

... in the second category. It is mostly composed of passionate, well-meaning people who think they are fighting elite power, unaware that they have been organi ...be restrained by less regulation. Their challenge has been to persuade the people harmed by this agenda that it's good for them.

...hat could be significant perhaps both positive and negative. Consequently, people, companies and governments should take responsible actions now to address t

...umber of American workers (18 percent of all workers, or nearly 30 million people) are covered by non-compete agreements.1 The prevalence of such agreements

... however, discuss the most obvious idea of all: that we should simply give people money — a basic income for everyone, regardless of what they do or what t ...e late 1970s and early 1980s suggest that a minimum income would encourage people to reduce their hours a little. If such slacking-off undermined the tax bas

...ontested public sources that this share of wealth by half of the world’s people has collapsed by over 40% in just the last five years. Worse than delusional, the lived reality of impoverishment of billions of people is reversed, the victims are continually proclaimed to be doing better unde

...n a rant about the dangers of "101ism", which is a word I made up for when people use an oversimplified or just plain wrong version of Econ 101 in policy dis I was annoyed by the word "actually". My current pet peeve is people not paying attention to empirical evidence - I think if you say "actually",

...ine -- implying that the wage hike isn’t killing jobs, but simply giving people raises. ...ect doesn’t fade with time. Meanwhile, they find that the probability of people losing their income entirely -- i.e., unemployment or dropping out of the l

...t is the capitalist God-of-the-Gaps. Deregulating the market merely allows people to be exploited. All markets are regulated, the difference is between democ ...our feelings, and perhaps, your abilities. I wonder if we could manipulate people into hating Jews? Did the Nazi's perhaps know something you don't?

...e they have acquired the privilege of importing immigrant workers at other people’s expense (just as they have acquired the privilege of exporting capital ... it is a violation of the collective economic and social interests of many people within society as a whole and a violation of sensible consequentialist ethi

...timacy: Koch Industries’ Cayman Islands business claims to employ only 3 people, but it has 217 subsidiaries there. ...nt to which large corporations are gaming the system in ways that ordinary people don’t have access to,” said Eddie Vale. While it’s hard to pinpoint w

...y members do—mostly working for giant profitable corporations. These are people who labor long hours preparing our food, stocking our shelves, cleaning our ...who negotiated far more than they are worth, but there are many, many more people in our country who are worth far more than they negotiated.

... area and who then leases the right to live within this community to other people. A strict enforcement of a set of laws or rules on everybody is also necess

...eas now, and they decided they had to put a sketch of those new ideas into people’s heads very quickly. And I agree with their decision. ...that getting support for a policy program requires buy-in from millions of people who will never read a single equation in a single economics model. Instead,

... Nor are tobacco companies absolved because people chose to smoke. Those people were persuaded by an industry that spent enormous amounts on advertising, p

Of course, people are free to do what they want to do, and if they want to join the Libertari Over the years, I have known a great many people who have flirted with the Libertarian Party, but were ultimately turned off

...undred years ago. In our urbanized, industrialized, highly mobile society, people need governmental of some kind if they are to cope with many of their probl ...le and you need a balance between what government does for people and what people should be able to do for themselves.

... the wealth that almost all Americans have today. Not that many years ago, people had to spend an enormous percentage of their waking hours simply to acquiri ...ore back for their tax dollars. At the federal level, the vast majority of people will get back every dollar they paid in Social Security taxes plus interest

...rights should not be denied, abridged, or enhanced at the expense of other people's rights by laws at any level of government based on sex, wealth, race, col ..., American society arbitrarily denied equal treatment to entire classes of people. There was a national brouhaha during the Korean War when the Red Cross dec

... can do to improve the ability of market to provide the goods and services people desire at the lowest possible price, or to help markets respond to shocks. ...ordinating the desires and productive activity of millions and millions of people without the need for a central authority to guide them, and to provide the

... the benefit of the tax deduction for charitable giving is also higher, so people tend to increase the amount they give. In addition, the wealthy give their ...han their marginal products in recent decades. So under the principle that people should have an income equal to what they contribute, fairness would suggest

... publishes a pamphlet: “The Six Million Swindle: Blackmailing the German People for Hard Marks with Fabricated Corpses.” The pamphlet becomes a foundatio

...secondly, the idea had permeated the corporatist thinking of many business people in the 1920s.

...olutions now to slow down the rise of drug resistance. Even today, 700,000 people die of resistant infections every year. Antibiotics are a special category ...his this category. In the case of antibiotics, they clearly help many sick people and can help livestock gain weight, too. But those using antibiotics for pr

...ld Forbes last month. “You’ve gotta change the hearts and minds of the people to understand what really makes society fairer and what’s going to change ...lars and students can continue to push the frontiers of knowledge and help people discover new and better ways to live fulfilling lives,” the statement rea

Economists argue so much about everything that people are always asking them “Is there anything you folks agree on?” The usua Many people associate economists with support for free markets. There is some truth to

..."Republic of Science" to the same degree that North Korea is a "Democratic People's Republic of Korea". | show=}} ..."Republic of Science" to the same degree that North Korea is a "Democratic People's Republic of Korea".

...time pay? Courts are slow, excessively technical, and intimidating to most people. To hire a lawyer to handle the case would usually cost more than most disp ...these arbitration clauses are usually buried in a sea of boilerplate, many people who are subject to them do not realize that they exist or understand their

... there are essentially very few that haven’t become loan sharks for poor people. The promise of microfinance was this: that poor people are budding entrepreneurs, who simply don’t have access to the capital re

MOOCs will “allow people who lack access to world-class learning—because of financial, geographic ...narrative—about our current education system’s failure to train enough people to fill the “jobs of the future.” But what exactly are those jobs? Are

...et of its logical implications. What distinguishes libertarians from other people, on this view, is not the basic moral principles they accept, but the consi 2 See Matt Kibbe, Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto

serve this principle by insulating people from each other, so that they may do as they wish on their own land, free f ...n, which are notoriously difficult to trace to their source and which harm people and ecosystems cumulatively and thus interactively rather than all at once

... a morally heinous ideal. It is a way for us to justify the abandonment of people who — we insist — were given opportunities and squandered them. Even if ...y of opportunity promises to help people like Will. It promises to abandon people like Chuckie.

...oosevelt and Lyndon Johnson to Paul Ryan. I believe it is often invoked by people who really care about equality of outcome exactly because equality of oppor ...volve assistance to the poor until there are no more poor. This means that people who wish to reduce inequality of outcome can say they are reducing inequali

...umes, the class of plants that includes peanuts and soybeans, a hazard for people with allergies. ... at least 72 people in 16 states was traced to a tainted supplement. Three people required liver transplants, and one woman died.

...ture in strict laws imposing burdens on smaller businesses. It is easy for people to talk past each other when talking about capture. It is hard to pin the p

...blished, it appeared in vanity journals. Other clinics simply told her, “People get dramatically better.” ... them: “You ought to be ashamed for charging $40,000 a shot. You prey on people like my brother-in-law who is desperate for help.”

...e. "Let’s hope privileged billionaires don’t start strapping up young people to their veins to get imagined rejuvenation on the basis of their misunders ... … that is one that … again, it’s one of these very odd things where people had done these studies in the 1950s and then it got dropped altogether. I t

[Translation: It’s a good thing that, as far as anyone knows, none of these people have been operating on live human bodies.]

.../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

... has Trump in fourth — behind Gary Johnson AND Jill Stein — with young people]

...provides financial incentives to harm and even kill people. Just ask those people who say they have been victimized by cigarettes, predatory lenders, Volkswa ...provides financial incentives to harm and even kill people. Just ask those people who say they have been victimized by cigarettes, predatory lenders, Volkswa

.... The other party, by founding government altogether on the consent of the people, suppose that there is a kind of original contract, by which the subjects h ... at first, associate them together, and subject them to any authority. The people, if we trace government to its first origin in the woods and deserts, are t

... turn requires the erasure (mentally and usually in brutal reality) of the people already living beyond the frontier and drawing their sustenance from the la ...freedom, used to justify their deprivation of those rights from indigenous people. Similarly, in his much-vaunted Letters on Toleration, he managed to find r

"Other People Need To Contribute: But Everything That Touches Your Grimy, Little Mitts Is

...12 riot at the Adams County Correctional Center in Mississippi in which 20 people were injured and a correctional officer killed. That incident, according to

... at risk of the costs and misery of preventable infectious diseases. These people are your friends, neighbors, and fellow citizens who refuse to have themsel There would be no argument against allowing people to refuse vaccination if they and their families would suffer alone the con