Voluntary Exchange Sources

20 May

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(Don Boudreaux) TweetPurdue University president Mitch Daniels delivered stirring remarks to that school’s graduating class of 2021. A slice: This last year, many of your elders failed this fundamental test of leadership. They let their understandable human fear of uncertainty overcome their duty to balance all...

20 May

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There is much in Thomas Sowell’s Discrimination and Disparities that the seasoned Sowell reader will find familiar. Nonetheless, Sowell brings new insights and a clear perspective to a pressing issue. I snatched up Discrimination and Disparities when it first appeared in 2018, and this past...

20 May

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(Don Boudreaux) Tweet… is from pages 12-13 of the late biologist George C. Williams’s excellent 1997 book, The Pony Fish’s Glow (emphasis added): Fishhooks today come in a great variety of shapes and sizes. Some have more than one barb or more than one point, often...

20 May

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We know from Atlas Shrugged, and many other Ayn Rand writings, that capitalists are egoists. They trade to make a profit, and this is morally admirable. They are wealth creators. We should be very grateful to millionaires and billionaires who earn their money through voluntary trade....