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03 Nov James Bovard on the Battering of the U.S. Constitution

Posted at 19:31h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

(Don Boudreaux) TweetSave for his calling statists “liberals,” I agree with every word of this wise, insightful, and passionate new essay by Jim Bovard. Two slices: The Constitution was intended to place politicians under “house arrest” – to strictly limit their power over private citizens in...

03 Nov Woke Investing and Management Strategies Threaten the Future of American Free Enterprise

Posted at 19:30h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

The enlightened titans of the business world, from Davos, Switzerland, to New York, San Francisco, and beyond, are full of suggestions for how commerce and finance can be made more ethical. These promoters of “environmental, social, and governance” (ESG) investing have been successful at convincing...

03 Nov Why Socialism Won’t End Worker “Exploitation”

Posted at 19:29h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

A belief still commonly held today by not just Marxists and socialists, but progressives of many stripes, is the insistence that employers are “stealing” part of their workers’ labor because the wage workers receive from their employer are less than the contribution of their labor...

03 Nov Socialists Have Never Shown How They Could Increase the Standard of Living

Posted at 19:28h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

[A selection from Nation, State, and Economy. Editor's note: When Mises refers to "liberals" or "liberalism" he means the ideology of laissez-faire, sometimes now called "classical liberalism."] Marxism sees the coming of socialism as an inescapable necessity. Even if one were willing to grant the correctness of...

03 Nov Covid and Constitutional RoadKill

Posted at 17:45h in Uncategorized by one80Admin

Is the U.S. Constitution the biggest roadkill on the 2020 campaign trail? Is faith in “American exceptionalism” blinding people to a death spiral of American democracy? According to much of the media, this is a single-issue election: “It’s the pandemic, stupid,” as a Politico headline blared....

03 Nov Lockdowners and “the Desire to Dominate”

Posted at 13:20h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

In many years of lecturing at Mises University, Judge Napolitano has given the same—terrifying—ending to his introductory speech. Not until the horrors of this year did it dawn on me that perhaps his point has its basis in reality. The dear judge often mentions, almost like...

03 Nov Lockdowns as a Political Tragedy of the Commons

Posted at 13:18h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Several of the leading European countries are now in the process of implementing a second wave of social and economic lockdowns in the face of new and a rising number of cases of the coronavirus. After bringing their societies to near total halts in the...

03 Nov Citizen vs. Government (Elections)

Posted at 13:15h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

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03 Nov Bonus Quotation of the Day…

Posted at 13:14h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

(Don Boudreaux) Tweet… is from page xiii of Deirdre Nansen McCloskey’s and Art Carden’s hot-off-the-press (2020) book, Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich: How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World: The evidence is overwhelming that liberty, not coercion by a private master or a...

03 Nov BMS ep. 160: Jeff Deist on the Character and Contributions of Henry Hazlitt

Posted at 13:13h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

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