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12 Aug Democratic Capitalism Exceeds Socialism In Economic Efficiency As Well As In Morality

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Image credit: istockEssaysFeaturedvia Socialism and Free Market Capitalism: The Human Prosperity ProjectHoover Daily ReportAs of 2020, many Americans—particularly but not exclusively the young—remain intrigued by socialism. Indeed, a 2019 survey found that socialism is as popular as capitalism among young American adults. Well-known political figures such as...

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11 Aug The New Fascism

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Up here in Maskachusetts, in the Berkshire Hills, we have a new form of fascism that might well be called “phasism” as our Governor Charlie Baker phases out our freedoms and our economic life. Banning music and theater and Tanglewood concerts and tennis tournaments and...

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10 Aug Bonus Quotation of the Day…

Posted at 17:32h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

(Don Boudreaux) Tweet… is from page 56 of the late Hans Rosling’s 2018 book, Factfulness: The misconception that the world is getting worse is very difficult to maintain when we put the present in historical context. DBx: Regular readers of this blog know how deeply I agree...

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10 Aug Reviving Native American Economies Through Dignity, Property, And Personhood

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Image credit: istockIn the News featuring Terry AndersonPolicyEdvia Acton InstituteAmerica prides itself on a distinctive legacy of freedom and justice. Yet despite our nation’s many enduring contributions to notions of human dignity, human rights, and political liberty, such gifts have not come without significant stains of...

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10 Aug Is Two‐​Party Polarization A Threat to Liberty?

Posted at 17:12h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Andy Craig In the cover story for the July/​August issue of Cato Policy Report, Lee Drutman of the New America Foundation expounds on a theory of the causes of, and solutions to, hyperpartisan polarization, adapted from his book Two‐​Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in...

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10 Aug Does Democratic Socialism Work Any Better Than Totalitarian Socialism? Well …

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Economists define socialism in many different ways. Those definitions can be blurry, but what's clear is the evidence on what works. Here's what the evidence says. Read the Full Article here: >from FEE...

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10 Aug Self-Censorship and Despotism Over the Mind

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The political atmosphere in the United States today is one of the most divisive and polarized in a very long time. In my lifetime, the only period with which I can compare it is the 1960s and early 1970s during the Vietnam War and the...

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23 Jul John Ioannidis Warned COVID-19 Could Be a “Once-In-A-Century” Data Fiasco. He Was Right

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COVID-19 has been far from the deadliest virus in modern history, but it has been the most divisive. The only thing the left and right seem to agree on is the data we have on the virus are not reliable. Read the Full Article here: >from FEE...

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20 Jul We’ll Do Anything for American Innovation, But We Won’t Do That

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Scott Lincicome It seems that everywhere you turn these days you’ll find someone in Washington lamenting the collapse of American innovation and industrial output, and, naturally, proposing his own industrial policy to solve the alleged problems. This includes both President Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden,...

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20 Jul Glenn Loury on Race, Inequality, and America

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Economist and author Glenn Loury of Brown University talks about race in America with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Read the Full Article here: >EconTalk...

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