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An Interventionist Snowball Rolling Down the Road to Serfdom

An Interventionist Snowball Rolling Down the Road to Serfdom

Here are three principles we should employ if we want to distinguish between 1. The long-run effects and the short-run effects of policies and programs aren’t always the same. We might incur short-run costs in order to get long-run benefits. Similarly, short-run benefits might come with long-run costs. 2. Interventions don’t occur in isolation, and they don’t stay

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