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I am always suspicious that there is a strong connection between economy and politic. Before slaves are the only way to get things done better. So incentive to support slavery is high. Then industrialization run high and low paid workers can get paid higher. More and more capitalists find it easier to...
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I was reading Doug French's book about the housing collapse and came across the Shiller graph showing historical home values. I'm a self-taught student of economics and don't have the background that others might. I wanted to pick the brains of the Mises community on the housing spike/collapse...
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I know Ron Paul has mentioned support of this sort of proposal before, but I wasn't really able to find much else on this idea. Has there been any thought given to promotion of a "Private option" for government? That is, people voluntarily giving up their "protections" like police...
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I am wondering if anyone knows anything about the duties on imports and tonnage which the Union imposed in the summer of 1789 as a result of the first session of Congress, or if anyone has any general knowledge about import/tonnage duties. Specifically, I would like answers to the following questions...
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Greetings - First, thank you for these scholarly forums -- it is a time when clear thinking is again needed at the forefront of politics and economics. WANTED POLITICAL/ECONOMIC PHILOSOPHERS: Is it time for a " Liberty Manifesto ?" <-- click to download PDF. We will publish the finished...
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I am currently doing a dissertation on American foreign policy and at the moment I am reading William Appleman Williams The Tragedy of American Diplomacy . In it, he says that US expansionist policies gained support from industrialists and farmers in an effort to "open" and/or "find"...