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Bastiat Misread
When will the critics read with both eyes open?
AUGUST 24, 2012 by SHELDON RICHMAN
When a fan of Bastiat's sees the broken-window fallacy in government "stimulus" spending, she is on the firmest of ground.
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Market, State, and Autonomy
Who is the true liberal?
AUGUST 10, 2012 by SHELDON RICHMAN
If the alternative we face is between grappling with market forces and trusting a ruling elite, anyone concerned with autonomy and equality should choose the market.
Wabi-Sabi
“You Didn’t Build That . . .”
Where Obama goes wrong.
JULY 24, 2012 by SANDY IKEDA
Who created the underlying order that politicians and bureaucrats want to control? The answer is--nobody.
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The Market Doesn't Ration Health Care
Or anything else.
JULY 13, 2012 by SHELDON RICHMAN
Rationing suggests conscious decision-making. In a free market there is no consciousness overseeing the "distribution" of resources.
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Cleaning Up After the Elephants (and Donkeys)
Rigging the policy debate.
JUNE 22, 2012 by SHELDON RICHMAN
The politicians and bureaucrats have made a royal mess of things--and genuine liberals are faulted for not being able to clean it up tidily with the wave of a hand.
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Hayek on Individualism
True and false.
JUNE 15, 2012 by SHELDON RICHMAN
For Hayek the crucial difference is over whether societies (institutions) are largely spontaneous, emergent, and organic--or designed.
The Calling
Free Markets Are a Woman's Best Friend
The overlooked source of liberation.
MAY 03, 2012 by STEVEN HORWITZ
Although it rarely gets the credit, capitalism liberated women from centuries of second-class citizenship.
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The 99% and the 1%
The economic means versus the political means.
MARCH 16, 2012 by SHELDON RICHMAN
The 1 percent as we know it is not the product of the market.
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From 1944 to Nineteen Eighty-Four
Hayek and Orwell.
SEPTEMBER 04, 2009 by SHELDON RICHMAN
I'm inclined to think of George Orwell and F. A. Hayek at the same time. Both showed great courage in writing the truth, undaunted by the consequences awaiting them. Both valued freedom, though they understood it differently.
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The Overlooked Solution for Health Care
Breaking the debate barrier.
AUGUST 14, 2009 by SHELDON RICHMAN
Discussing healthcare reform with an advocate of government control is frustrating. It almost feels as if one is speaking a foreign language -- and in a sense, the free-market proponent is speaking a foreign language. The meaning usually doesn't get through.
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The Market Doesn't Ration Health Care
AUGUST 07, 2009 by SHELDON RICHMAN
Economics 101 tells us that to accomplish the administration's stated health care goals directly--more coverage at lower cost--the government would have to take a third step: rationing.
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The Free Market Ignores the Poor
APRIL 21, 2009 by MIKE VAN WINKLE
"Once an activity has been socialized for a spell, nearly everyone will concede that that's the way it should be. Without socialized education, how would the poor get their schooling? " --Leonard Read