Author: one80Admin

28 Jan School Choice

Posted at 12:46h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Happy National School Choice Week!Look at who sent their kids to private schools: Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore … Yet all these politicians who sent their kids to private school, oppose school choice for regular people.A Stossel Classic from 2012----Don't miss the weekly video...

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27 Jan The Right to Refuse Service Should Be Universal and Absolute

Posted at 17:05h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

From New York to Florida, businesses are asserting what they believe is their right to refuse service. It brings up a number of questions. Do these businesses have such a right? Should they have such a right? Should such a right be universal? Should such a...

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26 Jan Economics, Economists, Big Data, and Big Questions

Posted at 20:26h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

(Don Boudreaux) TweetThanks again to my Mercatus Center colleague Matt Beal for producing these short videos of me answering Adam Smith-related questions. (These were recorded in Summer 2020.) Read the Full Article here: >Cafe HayekCafe Hayek...

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26 Jan Free Labor Markets vs. Biden’s Push for Compulsory Unionism

Posted at 20:24h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

We have now entered the Joe Biden presidency in the United States. Calling for a restored unity among the American people, the new president has come out of the starting gate with a plethora of executive orders and legislative policy proposals being sent to the...

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26 Jan What Is the Alternative to Lockdowns? A Symposium

Posted at 20:24h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Edward Stringham. My main academic contribution has been to emphasize the centrality of private governance in the building of social order. Private governance requires freedom, so that people and institutions can experiment with solutions to any and all social, cultural, and economic problems. There is...

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25 Jan All Hail the Reopening!

Posted at 22:45h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

What a glorious thing the reopening is! After nearly a year of darkening times, the light has begun to dawn, at least in the US.  Given how incredibly political this pandemic has been from the beginning, many people smell a rat. Is it really the case...

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25 Jan The Utter Insanity of Covid-19 “Policy”

Posted at 22:40h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

(Don Boudreaux) TweetTory MP Desmond Swayne – just after Christmas – channeled his righteous anger properly against the reckless and unfathomably destructive mad ‘scientist’ Neil Ferguson, the arrogant tyrant Boris Johnson, and other imposers, advocates, and tolerators of what David Hart calls “hygiene socialism.” ...

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25 Jan Scott Newstok on How to Think Like Shakespeare

Posted at 09:03h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Author Scott Newstok of Rhodes College talks about his book, How To Think Like Shakespeare, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Newstok draws on Shakespeare and other great writers and thinkers to explore the nature of education and the life well-lived. Read the Full Article here: >EconTalk...

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25 Jan Scott Newstok on How to Think Like Shakespeare

Posted at 09:03h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

***** TAKE THE 2020 ECONTALK SURVEY: https://tinyurl.com/y6tzqvg6. VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE EPISODES OF THE YEAR! ***** Author Scott Newstok of Rhodes College talks about his book, How to Think Like Shakespeare, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Newstok draws on Shakespeare and other great writers and thinkers to explore...

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25 Jan Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World – Full Video

Posted at 08:59h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World traces Sowell's journey from humble beginnings to the Hoover Institution, becoming one of this era's greatest economists, political philosophers, and prolific authors. Hosted by Jason Riley, a member of "The Wall Street Journal" editorial board, this one-hour...

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