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13 Jul

Posted at 16:49h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by

(Don Boudreaux) TweetIn my latest column for AIER I ask – rhetorically, it is true – what good reason we have for trusting that government officials are making prudent, wise, and apolitical decisions regarding the covid lockdowns. A slice: These People are politically driven. Even if...

13 Jul

Posted at 16:47h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by

The Great Recession of 2008, and now the Greater Recession, might distract you from the vastly bigger story of our times: the Great Enrichment., from 1800 to the present. But as we try to restart the economy battered by governmental failures, we need to keep in mind,...

10 Jul

Posted at 10:39h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by

Before America launches into a New Green Deal, it ought to consider what happened to the Old Green Deal. Basically, the government killed it in favor of urbanism and the agricultural-industrial processed food complex. It’s time to rethink those policies and solve homelessness at the...

05 Jul

Posted at 16:14h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by

Not being a fan of the movie Titanic, I was unaware of this anecdote. I ran into it reading Franco Moretti’s The Bourgeois. Between History and Literature. It seems to me a clear example of that “anti-capitalist mentality” we often talk about, and particularly of...