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Implementing Private Solutions Can Help Us Market the Virtues of Freedom to the Skeptics
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What does the future hold for economic life in the United States? Will we move toward greater freedom or less? What role will ideas and rhetoric play, if any, in making sure that the direction is one that lovers of freedom prefer?
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It's Always Something
There Is No Shortage of Threats for the Economically Ignorant
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Our economy is in the middle of an extraordinary run of success. Unemployment is low.Personal wealth is near an all-time high. Real wage growth sometimes appears less robust, but when benefits are included, real compensation is healthy. And even with the cries from some that economic mobilityisnt what it once was, legal and illegal immigrants continueto flock to the United States. Evidently being poor here beats being poor elsewhere by a long shot.
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Supply, Demand, Inventory
Inventory Smoothes Price Fluctuations in the Face of Shifting Supply and Demand
NOVEMBER 01, 2005 by RUSSELL ROBERTS
Supply-and-demand analysis is the bread and butterof classroom economics. All over America as theleaves change color and college commences, professorsof economics are shifting supply and demandcurves and showing how the price of a good changes inresponse.
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Who Hates Wal-Mart and Why?
Competitors Turn to Politicians to Hamstring Wal-Mart
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Half Full or Half Empty?
We Should Treat Free-Market Solutions as Inevitable
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Traitor or Trader?
SEPTEMBER 01, 2004 by RUSSELL ROBERTS
Daniel Sumner is in trouble. Sumner, an agricultural economist at UC Davis, has been accused of betraying his country. What has Sumner done? Given the charge, you might assume that he has aided terrorists or leaked nuclear secrets. Or perhaps shared some sophisticated technology with America's enemies.
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Have a Canadian Orange
Do Lower Prices Kill Jobs?
MAY 01, 2004 by RUSSELL ROBERTS
Suppose gasoline became so expensive that getting oranges to Wisconsin raised their price to $3 each. If that price were expected to persist for a long time, there would probably arise a Wisconsin citrus industry with all the trimmings. Orange orchards would be planted near the Illinois border where the weather is warmest.
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