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25 Dec Covid’s Lesson: Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others

Posted at 13:46h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

After they successfully take over Manor Farm, the animals in George Orwell’s Animal Farm spell out Seven Commandments of Animalism: Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.No animal shall wear clothes.No animal shall sleep in a...

25 Dec A New Introduction to Austrian Economics

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The Essential Austrian Economicsby Christopher J. Coyne and Peter J. BoettkeFraser Institute, 202068 pages Christopher Coyne and Peter Boettke, both professors of economics at George Mason University, say The purpose of this book is to present an overview of the key tenets of Austrian economics. In order...

25 Dec How We Dealt With The Flu in ‘69 (Video)

Posted at 13:42h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Covid-19 is another in a long series of pandemics that have been part of the human experience. Somehow we managed to cobble together the idea of freedom in any case. The most recent serious pandemic of 1968-69 is almost forgotten today – and was hardly...

25 Dec The Sovietization of California

Posted at 13:40h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

I am writing this column upon returning home to California after five days in Florida. For the first time since my first trip to Los Angeles in 1974 and moving there two years later, I dreaded going to California. That first trip, as a 25-year-old New...

25 Dec Quotation of the Day…

Posted at 13:39h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

(Don Boudreaux) Tweet… is from page 39 of Steven Landsburg’s superb 2019 volume, The Essential Milton Friedman: Most economic activity requires coordinating the activity of vast num- bers of people. New Yorkers have bread on their tables thanks to the coordinated activity of farmers, bakers, truckers, the...

25 Dec Your Trauma and Mine: A Retrospective on 2020

Posted at 13:38h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Lockdown shell shocked me like nothing else in my lifetime. The very notion that governments would push the off button on half the economy, throwing out all concerns for freedom and human rights, was beyond any dystopia I had ever imagined. And that was when...

25 Dec Drink Your Coffee, Be Considerate, and Fight Covid-19

Posted at 13:37h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Lockdowns are a blunt policy instrument typical of government officials who can only pretend to know how individuals make choices and the tradeoffs they face. However, we can still be considerate of the choices people make and fight Covid-19. The Keys of Marginalism Marginalism is essential to...

25 Dec A Republic if You Can Keep It

Posted at 13:36h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

America in 2020 does not look like the America we were taught about in school. Of course the values we are taught are aspirational in nature and our country is an ongoing project of moving closer to those ideals. America has yet to live up...

25 Dec A Short Video on 2020’s Derangement

Posted at 13:31h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

(Don Boudreaux) Tweet Read the Full Article here: >Cafe HayekCafe Hayek...

23 Dec The Problem with Mandatory “Socially Responsible Investing”

Posted at 22:08h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

The term environmental social governance (ESG) investing is relatively new. As described in Forbes, [An] approach that is slowly on the rise is ESG activism, where an activist fund will take a position in the security of a company with the aim of campaigning to make its...