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Labor Economics #4 - Unemployment Insurance by Alex Merced These days unemployment insurance has become more of an issue than it has in recent times. The debate on this issue seems to be misguided. To really understand the unemployment insurance issue, or the issues regarding any kind of insurance you...
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A Response to Peter Kleins Lecture: Corporations and the Free Market by Alex Merced Listen to Peter Kleins Lecture here You've might have read in previous posts on Liberty is Now that I am one of the Libertarians who criticize corporations role in the free market. Although Let me make a few quick...
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(Originally posted at damienmanier.com ) One of the roles of government, debated even among those of a libertarian or small government perspective, is that of regulating monopolies and ensuring competition. On a larger political scale, the debate may focus on how free or how socialized should a market...
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Filed under: capitalism, corporatism, corporate welfare, libertarian, free market, license, natural monopoly, public utility, privatization, patent, monopoly, competition
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This afternoon while driving home I was listening to talk radio, some of you may already be judging but hear me out, and I heard the conservative them for bashing government run health care, "If the government can run the DMV, screws up this simple program, makes this stupid mistake, etc...then...
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Pres. Obama has apparently been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize this morning " for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples, " but there appears to be a few on the left who feel that the award is undeserved. I copy below an interesting message...
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Australian economist John Quiggin (whom I've cited previously on climate change costs) has a post up with this title, both at his own blog and at Crooked Timber . Does anybody care to comment? My own response to John was as follows: John, thanks for this piece. As a libertarian who believes that...
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I would like to bring readers' attention to Edwin G. Dolan's "Science, Public Policy and Global Warming: Rethinking the Market Liberal Position ", from the Fall 2006 issue of The Cato Journal: www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj26n3/cj26n3-3.pdf . Dolan examines libertarian, "market liberal"...
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1. Check out the San Diego-based The Prometheus Institute , http://www.prometheusinstitute.net/ , which has just launched a new website calling for carbon taxes: http://www.payyourairshare.org/ . They propose that: A tax be levied on all major emitters of greenhouse gases, set so that fossil fuel prices...
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The War on Drugs This one has been going on for a long time. I started with this one, not because of personal preferences of any kind, but because this is the basis for so much federal intervention into the everyday lives of the citizens and it is the one I am most familiar with. The model to enact federal...
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Filed under: immigration, illegal, libertarian, big government, excuses, funding, Terrorism, war, free market, drugs
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OK, this is kind of off topic for my usual posts, I admit it. But, I have noticed lots of Big Government Libertarians. That is an oxymoron, right? Well, any semi-intelligent person would think so; however it seems not to be the case lately. Because of recent (if you consider everything since Nixon recent...
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It is interesting how much power is in that one little word, “Public”. From where I am sitting, it is the word used to commit all kinds of atrocities in the US. The idea that there is some kind of collective greater good that can be imposed on people against their will is implied in the word. Private...