Voluntary Exchange Sources

05 Oct

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(Don Boudreaux) Tweet… is from page 3 of Deirdre McCloskey’s excellent 1990 book, If You’re So Smart: The Narrative of Economic Expertise: Economic snake oil sells, in other words, because the public wants it. The public wants it because of the fears that magicians and medicine...

04 Oct

Posted at 15:09h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by

For years, politicians have claimed that the rich weren’t paying their “fair share.” While it’s taken a decade or more for voters to catch wind of the truth, people are finally beginning to realize that the rich actually pay far more than the rest of...

04 Oct

Posted at 07:07h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by

Kenneth Minogue’s The Liberal Mind first appeared in the 1960s, an era when “the young and the radical in the Western world were in a restive condition.” As Minogue correctly diagnosed, the restiveness had two sides, “one cynical, the other sentimental.” Six decades later, the...

03 Oct

Posted at 21:08h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by

|Peter Boettke| Earlier this year I published my book, The Struggle for a Better World which consists of various published versions of public lectures I have given over roughly between 2000-2020 mainly at learned societies and associations.  They have also reflect a little bit of my globetrotting...

30 Sep

Posted at 22:27h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by

So, I decided to attempt a measurement to quantify this phenomenon. On Wednesday, September 22nd, in the 1:00 pm hour, I observed 400 Stanford cyclists on Lasuen Mall, a popular campus street for bicycles. I simply noted whether each cyclist wore a mask, a helmet,...