Voluntary Exchange Sources

20 Mar Essential and Non-Essential: Never Again

Posted at 13:28h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

What makes somebody “essential?” Governmental and societal responses to Covid-19 have revolved around classifying certain types of human behavior and individuals themselves as “essential” or “nonessential.” But what is the meaning of this distinction? Essential to whom? Essential to what end? Who has the ability to...

20 Mar Entrepreneurship and Liberty

Posted at 13:26h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

The Henry Hazlitt Memorial Lecture, sponsored by Yousif Almoayyed. Recorded at the Mises Institute on March 19, 2021. Includes an introduction by Peter G. Klein. The Austrian Economics Research Conference is the international, interdisciplinary meeting of the Austrian School, bringing together leading scholars doing research in...

20 Mar Quotation of the Day…

Posted at 13:24h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

(Don Boudreaux) Tweet…is from page xiv of University of Notre Dame philosopher James Otteson’s excellent and hot-off-the-Cambridge-University-Press book, Seven Deadly Economic Sins (2021): But one of the primary intellectual virtues is to know the limits of one’s knowledge, and to proportion one’s beliefs (and the strength of...

20 Mar Some Covid Links

Posted at 13:22h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

(Don Boudreaux) TweetDavid Henderson relates his encounter with a homo avoidcovidous. James Jeffrey argues that the tyranny that is engulfing Great Britain is more like that envisioned by Aldous Huxley than by George Orwell. Here’s his opening: Having the jackboot of George Orwell’s 1984 stamping on one’s...

20 Mar The 2020 Recession: Blame Lockdowns, Not the Virus

Posted at 13:20h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

It is a well-established fact that the lockdowns have devastated the economy in a manner unseen since the Great Depression. AIER has written extensively on this matter and a comprehensive report detailing how various regions of the country were affected can be found here. AIER...

20 Mar 5 Reasons Americans (Wrongly) See Big Business as the Villain

Posted at 13:20h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

We all aspire for some form of achievement, and usually applaud those when it is first obtained. Most recently the new wolf of Wall Street (Whitney Wolfe Herd) has been heralded in the media as the female CEO making history and a person to aspire...

20 Mar How Three Women Sought to Sway Americans Away From Socialism

Posted at 13:15h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

In 1943, as collectivist policies were ascendant, an extraordinary thing happened. Three women published three books that year that would jolt Americans from their socialist stupor and remind them of the fundamental American values of individual liberty, limited government, free-market capitalism, and entrepreneurship. This Women’s...

18 Mar Great Barrington Declaration Scientists with Gov. DeSantis in Florida

Posted at 22:41h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, on the one-year anniversary of the lockdowns, invited back the scientists behind the Great Barrington Declaration, signed at the offices of the American Institute for Economic Research, for a roundtable on the Coronavirus and the policy response. It is exceptionally educational,...

18 Mar Scaring Us Into the Grip of Tyrants

Posted at 22:41h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

(Don Boudreaux) TweetHere’s a letter to the Wall Street Journal: Editor: I wish that I didn’t share Daniel Henninger’s pessimism about the course of American politics (“Biden Abandons Normalcy,” March 18). But all that he writes rings regrettably true. As Mr. Henninger accurately observes, today’s progressives repeatedly prophesy...

18 Mar Bonus Quotation of the Day…

Posted at 22:40h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

(Don Boudreaux) Tweet… is from page 558 of the final (2016) volume – Bourgeois Equality – of Deirdre McCloskey’s soaring trilogy on the essence of bourgeois values, on their transmission, and on their essential role in modern life: True, trading tends to be prudent, and on...