Doug Bandow

Doug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author of a number of books on economics and politics. He writes regularly on military non-interventionism.

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The Future Belongs to Liberty

Why Is There a Dole for Farmers?

APRIL 26, 2013 by DOUG BANDOW

Farm welfare takes money from some hardworking Americans to give to other hardworking Americans with more romantic-sounding jobs. This system makes no sense, especially when Washington is already broke.

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The Minimum Wage: Apparently Benevolent, Completely Wrong

MARCH 10, 2013 by DOUG BANDOW

Raising the minimum wage is an attempt by the government to create wealth out of nothing. It winds up destroying it instead.

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The Self-Congratulation of the “Public Servant”

JANUARY 23, 2013 by DOUG BANDOW

Entrepreneurs and other actors in the private sector provide far more public service than politicians and bureaucrats.

The Future Belongs to Liberty

Whither Kuwait: Illiberal Democracy or Enlightened Autocracy?

JANUARY 15, 2013 by DOUG BANDOW

The growing support for a religious regime among Kuwait's young shows how democracy, without limits to State power, can threaten a free society.

The Future Belongs to Liberty

Indivisible Liberty: Personal, Political, and Economic

NOVEMBER 27, 2012 by DOUG BANDOW

Economic liberty is no less important than freedom of speech, association, religion, or any other. In fact, it's essential to all of them.

Book Review

Colossus: The Price of America’s Empire

Most Americans Don't Want to Remake the World

JULY 09, 2010 by DOUG BANDOW

Article

Tips to Hike Your Taxes

Tax Cut Protestors Should Voluntarily Pay More Themselves

JUNE 27, 2010 by DOUG BANDOW

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Healers Under Siege

Price-Control Schemes for Prescription Drugs Will Be Hazardous to Your Health

NOVEMBER 01, 2003 by DOUG BANDOW

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Chemical Hysteria and Environmental Politics

Alarmist Groups with Radical Political Agendas Manipulate Science

JULY 01, 2003 by DOUG BANDOW
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From natural systems to human systems, we start to notice patterns in nature that are products of good flow. Adrian Bejan discusses this crucial insight--and how it makes freedom even more needful--in this month's interview. Zachary Caceres looks at what emergence can tell us about the universe, the market, the heart, and the sacred; Mike Reid recounts the tragedies produced when the State tries to impose its order on people who have already developed their own; Gary Galles channels Leonard Read: the State is a clenched fist, he says, so it cannot create; Brad Taylor says democracy might just be another imposed order in some situations; Karl Borden wonders whether an individual's right to be left alone can be part of the order of things; and much, much more.Download Free PDF

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