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20 Feb The ZeroCovid Movement: Cult Dressed as Science

Posted at 15:37h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

This past year has given rise to some strange and novel methods of disease containment, including lockdowns and mask mandates. It is unsurprising that the natural next step in this progression has been the development of a movement known as “ZeroCovid.” Its growing influence is,...

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18 Feb Florida Unlockeddown

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

(Don Boudreaux) TweetI’m grateful to my colleague Dan Klein for alerting me to this brand new short video by Ivor Cummins – a video that makes clear that Florida’s very mild restrictions in response to Covid were, and are, justified in comparison to the tyrannical...

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18 Feb Panel: Confronting Totalitarian Temptations | AERC 2021

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• “Austrian School and the Demise of the Soviet Union” Yuri Maltsev, Carthage College • “George Orwell: Socialist Enemy of Totalitarianism” David Ramsay Steele• “‘Russian Mises’: Boris Brutskus on Soviet Communism, 1920s–1930s” Pavel Usanov, European University • “Against the Totalitarian Grain: F. A. Hayek and...

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18 Feb “From Menger to Mises” | Samuel Bostaph

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The Ludwig von Mises Memorial Lecture is sponsored by Dr. Don Printz.The Austrian Economics Research Conference is the international, interdisciplinary meeting of the Austrian School, bringing together leading scholars doing research in this vibrant and influential intellectual tradition. The conference is hosted by the Mises...

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18 Feb Entrepreneurship in theological perspective: creative and innovative

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What distinguishes something that is truly creative from something that is simply innovative? And how do we value and prioritize one or the other? In a recent study, “Creativity, Innovation, and the Historicity of Entrepreneurship,” Victor Claar and I attempt to disambiguate what we call...

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18 Feb 9 Tips For Formal Writing Style: Must Know Things

Posted at 16:22h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

We can’t always talk like we want. Some situations require that we clean up our vocabulary a bit and pay attention to the words we use. One case, in particular, is when you’re out on the job hunt. Some of the slang you use with...

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18 Feb The Banking System and the Evolution of Money

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The most important institution for governing supply of money in a free market economy is the network of organizations and laws that we call the banking system. Banking was not consciously intended as an institution for governing the money supply. Instead it was the product...

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18 Feb Why Jeff Bezos’s Consumer Revolution Is a True American Success Story

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After more than a quarter century at the helm of one of the world’s most valuable companies, Jeff Bezos announced this month that he will soon step down as the CEO of Amazon. The mark Bezos and his company have left on consumers, small businesses, and...

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18 Feb Want to Make Things WORSE? Ban Your Enemies

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18 Feb We should not fear automation

Posted at 15:58h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

The Cato Institute recently released a fascinating study explaining why fears about job losses via automation may be exaggerated. Many people today fear that our technological innovations, particularly automation, will result in permanent job losses. The fear especially applies to low-income jobs, which usually act...

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