Robert Zumwalt

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Law, Praxeology, and Unintended Moral Decay

10/25/2022 Mises Wire Robert Zumwalt

Murray Rothbard explained in Man, Economy, and State that praxeology is the “general, formal theory of human action” and that economics is the only subdivision of knowledge to have been fully...

Bastiat Predicted the Baby Formula Crisis 170 Years before It Happened

06/04/2022 Mises Wire Robert Zumwalt

The current baby formula shortage in the United States is a pressing crisis, and many in the media have been rushing to explain how such a thing could have happened. But on close analysis, it appears...

This Is How the Progressives Will Write the History of Covid

02/12/2022 Mises Wire Robert Zumwalt

It seems obvious that wherever vaccine mandates, mask mandates, and lockdowns have been imposed in response to covid-19, progressive political and media elites have been the driving forces behind them...

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Bastiat Predicted the Baby Formula Crisis 170 Years before It Happened

06/12/2022 Robert Zumwalt

Although Biden presented the formula shortage as caused by "forces" outside the USA, the shortage is homegrown. Bastiat could have explained why.

This Is How the Progressives Will Write the History of Covid

03/14/2022 Robert Zumwalt

Progressives will write the history of covid to hide the mistakes of progressive "experts" and to distance themselves from disastrous or pointless policies. They've done it before.

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