Health

As part of a follow-up to my article on cannabis industry and its many rel

With reporters of the Western World losing their heads over the outbreak of the Ebola virus, it’s helpful to put it in the context of other disease

A recent paper published in the prestigious Journal of Political Economy, “

The modern health insurance industry, a by-product of government regulation and tax policy, has led to a system in which the consumer of medical services doesn’t know the costs or final prices charged for services. Without a functioning system of price signals, prices cannot be contained.

Drug warriors rely on bad and manipulated data to make the claim that respecting private property rights in Colorado is "terrible public policy."

Welfare and Old Age in Europe and North America is a fascinating account of the rise of the welfare state in continental Europe and the U.K. The inclusion of North America in its title is misleading because it certainly does not discuss the mutual-aid-to-welfare-state transitions of Canada or Mexico but only offers a theory in one contribution as to why mandatory health insurance failed to be enacted in the U.S. early in the twentieth century.

In Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis, “libertarian” economist John C. Goodman has written one of the most misperceived books in recent memory.

Unlike the War on Poverty, the War on Drugs is a real and bloody war by the United States against a minority group known as drug buyers and sellers

Volume 1, Number 3 (1977)

What this essay will attempt to show is that while, during the 19th century, the prohibition of sexual immoralit