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14 Nov Keeping Covid Perspective

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(Don Boudreaux) TweetHere’s a much-modified reply on Facebook to a sympathetic Facebook friend who recently lost her father to Covid-19: Ms. F. W….. I am truly, deeply sorry for your and your family’s loss of your father to Covid-19, and for his suffering on account of this...

11 Nov Bjorn Lomborg’s “False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet”

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Bjorn Lomborg is a business school professor and best-selling author. Time has named him one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. Foreign Policy has declared him one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers. He’s also a self-described environmentalist. Indeed, The Guardian considers...

11 Nov Resisting the Leviathan: The Mayflower Compact

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The Mayflower Compact, signed 400 years ago this week, helped lay a foundation for America’s commitment to government by consent of the governed. Read the Full Article here: >National Review...

11 Nov Buchanan, Hayek, and the Limits of Constitutional Ambitions

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James Buchanan shared with F.A. Hayek a deep appreciation of the market as a creative discovery process. Like Hayek, Buchanan understood that the results of market processes are ever-changing, highly complex, and cannot possibly be consciously planned. Yet while Buchanan also shared Hayek’s commitment to...

11 Nov What Drives Progress: The State or the Market?

Posted at 16:36h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

The famous American author, Mark Twain once said, “History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme.” A little over a hundred years ago President Woodrow Wilson kicked off a drastic expansion of government power and scope with the general assumption that the state can scientifically...

11 Nov The Mayflower Compact: As an Idea, America Began in 1620, Not 1776

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For the 102 English people aboard the Mayflower, this very week four centuries ago was one they would never forget. After more than 65 days on a perilous, storm-tossed journey at sea, they cited land (Cape Cod) on November 9, 1620. They dropped anchor on November...

11 Nov Lockdown Despotism and the “Control Panel” Delusion

Posted at 16:35h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris recently updated their “plan to beat COVID-19.” One passage is worth examining for the dangerous mentality it betrays: “Social distancing is not a light switch. It is a dial. President-elect Biden will direct the CDC [Centers for Disease Control] to provide...

11 Nov What Kanye West Gets Right (and Wrong) about Wealth, Economics and the Power of Innovation

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Christian Genius Billionaire Kanye West has officially failed to become President Christian Genius Billionaire Kanye West, garnering only about 60,000 votes and failing to crack half a percent of the total in any state. There were plenty of reasons not to vote for Kanye, including his...

10 Nov James Buchanan and the Properly Trained Economist

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Throughout his career, James Buchanan displayed a remarkable consistency regarding the didactic role of the properly trained economist. As he would say, it takes varied iterations to force alien concepts upon reluctant minds. What he regarded as the role of the properly trained economist is...

10 Nov Quotation of the Day…

Posted at 08:01h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

(Don Boudreaux) Tweet… is from page 71 of Deirdre McCloskey’s and Art Carden’s superb new (2020) book, Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich: How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World: An ethical market economy, we further claim, has been best achieved not by industrial...