Brazilians Learn About the Law of Opportunity Cost

07/09/2014 Mises Wire Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Some 40,000 of them cursed their president in a most vulgar way because she spent $11 billion on soccer stadia when it could have been spent on things that actually benefited at least a few citizens instead, they explained.

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