Many associated with the Mises Institute have warned of this danger many times, but the closer that vouchers come to reality, the more the private schools themselves are understanding it just as well. See “ Private Schools Leery of Voucher Trade-offs “ in the Washington Post . What if schools that refuse to accept them face competitive
My “ Death by Environmentalism “ article on the Mises page still generates controversy, as it has been reprinted, translated into Spanish, and generally circulated. It has also been a source of problems to me, as one environmentalist emailed our president and demanded I be fired. (She graciously declined to do so.) However, I find that I was
While it does not mean that government is disappearing in Mexico, at least we have a start. At least one city government is trying to eliminate corruption by getting rid of the laws that breed such corruption. Perhaps this might set a good example for cities elsewhere! At least, one can always hope.
Paul Krugman, the Keynesian masquerading as an economist at Princeton, in today’s column in the New York Times writes about the “lump of labor” fallacy of economics. For the most part, he seems to get it right. However, our hero simply is incapable of writing anything on economics without committing at least one major fallacy. Today, Krugman
Proof that even the Weekly Standard runs sensible pieces from time to time: Up in Smoke by Hugh Hewitt (”The core problem is that species protection prohibits many ordinary fire precautions. You cannot clear coastal sage scrub, no matter how dense, if a gnatcatcher nests within it--unless the federal government provides a written permission slip
Along the same lines , Rothbard mentions in passing in What Has Government Done to Our Money that nails were once used for currency. Rothbard mentions Scotland. But in the early days on the American frontier too, nails were so scarce that people often would burn down a home before they moved on. The reason was so they could collect the nails to
Gephardt’s Revolution Begins with a Global Minimum Wage (La Times and many other sources ): What at first appears to be a case of extreme economic ignorance might as well be a plot to dis -employ all workers of the world who are not members of the labor unions he expects to fund his presidential campaign.
Adel Al-Jubeir is precisely right. From CNN : “Saudi Arabia on Sunday blamed record high U.S. gasoline prices on America’s tough environmental laws and lack of refining capacity, saying OPEC’s oil production policies were not to
File sharing has zero effect on recorded music sales, say Felix Oberholzer-Gee of the Harvard Business School and Koleman S. Strumpf of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Read the story
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