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As long as it's peaceful, shop wherever you like. That includes buying local, "shopping small," or buying materials and making your own gifts. But please: don't feel guilty about holiday shopping at a big box. A lot of people are selling fallacious thinking. Events like "Shop Small Saturday" can be just another form of rent seeking.
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OCTOBER 22, 2012 by ARTHUR FOULKES
Despite the bad rap it gets, free trade is the key to economic progress. Arthur Foulkes has the details.
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The Importance of Subjectivism in Economics
The double inequality of value.
SEPTEMBER 07, 2012 by SHELDON RICHMAN
For an exchange to take place, the two parties must assess the items traded differently, with each party preferring what he is to receive to what he is to give up.
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Outsourcing Is Bad?
It's the division of labor, that is, cooperation.
AUGUST 27, 2012 by TYLER WATTS
Economics makes clear that outsourcing is not the problem; the problem is scarcity. Outsourcing is (part of) the solution.
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Made Everywhere
Fear not China or any other foreign producer.
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There are no exports and imports. There is only what I make and what everyone else makes.
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Rwanda's Economic Success: How Free Markets Are Good for Poor Africans
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The Morality of Capitalism: What Your Professors Won’t Tell You
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No Bad Apple?
Steve Jobs and Occupy Wall Street
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It's a little surprising that Occupy Wall Street protesters haven't condemned Steve Jobs, one of the leading members of the "1 percent."
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Obama and the Protectionist War Against the Poor
SEPTEMBER 16, 2009 by WILLIAM ANDERSON
Obama imposed new tariffs to please American union members, but the lower-paid workers in our country, however, will pay the deadly price, all in the name of "social justice" and "protecting American workers."