Author: one80Admin

28 Sep

Posted at 12:16h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by

Last week, for the Nth time, the Wall Street Journal had a story about shortages of Covid-19 tests ( “Covid-19 Testing Is Hampered by Shortages of Critical Ingredient,” September 25). An important topic. The journalist notes: According to a survey last month by the American Association for...

28 Sep

Posted at 12:14h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by

(Don Boudreaux) TweetWhat struck me most about reading Kristian Niemietz’s superb 2019 book, Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies was not its recounting of socialist failures and horrors. As sad as these are, the existence of, if not all of the details of, these...

27 Sep

Posted at 09:44h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by

Fifty years have passed since Milton Friedman’s article in the New York Times Magazine on “The Social Responsibility of Business.” This anniversary has been widely remembered- though perhaps more vilified than celebrated ( David Henderson was among those celebrating it, here).   As Friedman is considered such...

27 Sep

Posted at 09:40h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by

I’m very pleased to announce that my book Liberty or Lockdown is now available at Amazon. It includes a foreword by George Gilder. Below is my introduction. For most Americans, the Covid-19 lockdown was our first experience in a full denial of freedom. Businesses forced closed....

24 Sep

Posted at 08:35h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by

(Don Boudreaux) Tweet… is from page 286 of Kristian Niemietz’s excellent 2019 book, Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies: [O]ur economic intuitions are a legacy of the tribal age. Most anti-capitalist arguments, then, no matter how much complex-sounding sociological jargon they may use, are really...