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As it stands, public schooling is a monopoly service provider that bases school enrollment upon geographic proximity, not on any input from individual choice (besides the district competition inherent in families moving to other areas, which has a large cost). To claim that the State will colonize all private schools is a bit hyperbolic, in my opinion
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[quote user="Eric080"]Charlie Sheen jokes expired a month ago.[/quote] I totally agree. The lecturer uses the joke, so I threw it into the title.
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[quote user="ladyattis"]Also, I sorta wonder why anyone hasn't made a graphic novel from the perspective of a modern economist.[/quote] There is The Cartoon Introduction to Economics: Volume One: Microeconomics . I don't think it's that bad at all (definitely pales in comparison to even most "principles of economics"
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_HF2Nl0lyM
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/20/nyregion/police-union-fights-back-against-an-inquiry-calling-ticket-fixing-a-courtesy.html
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Bryan Caplan has discussed this issue elsewhere, but here is a video showing student reactions toward a petitition to redistribute GPAs .
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Buy a house! If you can handle the monthly mortgage payment, you're going to love your tax returns: your interest is deductible! I received thousands back this year. So, you're building equity and the government hands your interest back to you. It's an illogical, immoral mess, but it does reward home ownership (if you can handle it).
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I too considered this "historic" when I first heard about it; the Mises Academy is evolving into a truly breakthrough technology for Austro-libertarianism. If only they would let David Friedman or someone have a course on mainstream economics! I'd sign up!
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He is speaking very well to his audience (linking pay to Planned Parenthood to the billions spent on wars, which is obviously a connection Whoopi, et al. don't see). I think he is promoting his ideas more clearly this time around than last election season, actually.
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Here is the YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/feeseminars . Some quick recommendations: 20th Century Economic History with Larry White Monetary Equilibrium with Steven Horwitz Capital and Its Structure with Peter Lewin Inflation with Steven Horwitz Entrepeneurship and the Market Process with Israel Kirzner