Voluntary Exchange Sources

12 Jan

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There are few works in the history of economics that may be truly considered “revolutionary” and “path-breaking,” in its starting premises, its logic, and its implications. But one that is in this category is Carl Menger’s Grundsätze der Volkswirtschaftsliche, his Principles of Economics in its...

12 Jan

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(Don Boudreaux) Tweet… is from page 130 of Deirdre McCloskey’s and Alberto Mingardi’s superb 2020 book, The Myth of the Entrepreneurial State (original emphasis; footnotes deleted): After 1848, liberalism (or, as we call it not, classical liberalism) began to come under attack from enthusiasts for State...

10 Jan

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(Don Boudreaux) Tweet… is from page 125 of the 19th-century American jurist James Coolidge Carter’s posthumously published and brilliant, yet unfortunately neglected, 1907 volume, Law: Its Origin, Growth and Function: When man made his first appearance upon earth, he did not wait until some lawgiver appeared to...

06 Jan

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"Information is entering through the pores" of Cuban society, journalist Yoani Sánchez tells Reason, a process that is causing the official narrative of the country's dictatorship "to rupture."------------------Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/ReasonTV?sub_confirmation=1Like us on Facebook: https://ift.tt/1OFng0MFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/reasonReason is the planet's leading source...

06 Jan

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(Don Boudreaux) Tweet… is from pages 83-84 of my late, great colleague Walter Williams’s 2010 autobiography, Up From the Projects: As a professor, I have never used my class for proselytizing students, as so many professors do. I do think that’s academic dishonesty. Personally, I want students...