Allan Carlson

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06/01/1998 Free Market Allan Carlson

The Free Market 16, no. 6 (June 1998) I was one of only two non-socialists who managed to gain an invitation to Hillary Clinton’s “White House Conference on Child Care.” As I entered The Presidential...

What Has Government Done to Our Families?

01/05/2003 Mises Daily Allan Carlson

The fate of families and children in Sweden shows the truth of Ludwig von Mises’s observation that “no compromise” is possible between capitalism and socialism, writes Allan Carlson. He shows how the welfare state’s growth can be viewed as the transfer of the “dependency” function from families to state employees. The process began in 19th-century Sweden.

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