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28 Mar No Wobbling! An AMA with Steve Horwitz

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Are you teaching economics? How is the current pandemic influencing your teaching? Or how should it? We welcomed Steve Horwitz to offer his perspective. Here’s the result: And for those of you interested in Steve’s book recommendation, here you go. Howard Baetjer’s Free Our Markets. And here are links...

28 Mar The Corona Economy with John B. Taylor

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Recorded on March 25, 2020In this first of a new series of Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson conversations done via webcam, Peter Robinson talks to John B. Taylor, the Hoover Institution’s George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics. They discuss the huge impact of the...

28 Mar When It Comes to Coronavirus, Nobody Knows Anything

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Reason's Science Correspondent, Ron Bailey, on flattening the curve without killing freedom.------------------Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/ReasonTV?sub_...

27 Mar A More or Less Perfect Union: Emancipation Proclamation

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President Abraham Lincoln issued an Executive Order known as the Emancipation Proclamation that freed the slaves in rebel territories during the Civil War. It would ultimately take an amendment to the Constitution to abolish all slavery at the end of the war. Learn more about...

27 Mar How Isaac Newton Turned Isolation From the Great Plague Into a “Year of Wonders”

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College students around the world left campus this month, unsure when they would return and what daily life would look like until then. Forced to leave their friends and classmates behind and return to their childhood bedrooms, young people, who on average are less...

25 Mar Say No to Subsidies

Posted at 16:57h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Can you hear the oinks of the pigs running toward the feeding trough now that Farmer Uncle Sam has rung the feeding bell? For several weeks politicians have been jockeying to up the ante with progressively higher bailout proposals: $850 billion, $1 trillion, $2 trillion....

25 Mar Boettke Makes Economics Life-Affirming and Intellectually Adventurous

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For centuries, economists have struggled for ways to impart economic lessons to the general public, with the hope of impressing upon people who are not studying formally the need to grasp the logic and meaning of economics. This is a cause that Peter Boettke, my professor...

24 Mar Teaching Sound Economics in a Crisis of Fallacies: Steve Horwitz AMA

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Thanks for watching our recent AMA video I was pleased to record with David Henderson last week. This week, Econlib contributor Steve Horwitz has kindly agreed to film an AMA interview with me this week, which we will then share here. Our topic of discussion will be,...

24 Mar Liberty Is Killed During Emergencies: Just Ask Germans

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On January 30, 1933, German President von Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler chancellor of Germany. On March 30, 1933, Franklin Roosevelt took the oath of office as the 32nd president of the United States. Both men were taking office with the aim of leading their respective...

24 Mar 800 Medical Specialists Caution Against Draconian Measures

Posted at 16:55h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

If you depend only on mass media during this crisis, one’s perspective can become distorted. You might gain the impression that the whole world agrees that a full lockdown of life itself is the only way to control the spread of Coronavirus and minimize the...