Author: one80Admin

22 Mar The Dangerous Virulence of Ignorance of Trade

Posted at 09:48h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

(Don Boudreaux) TweetHere’s a letter to the Wall Street Journal: Editor: United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer’s defense of Trump’s tariffs in the face of the COVID-19 outbreak ranges from the economically ignorant to the internally inconsistent all the way to the Orwellian (Letters, March 21). Mr. Lighthizer’s...

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22 Mar What’s your libertarianism worth now?

Posted at 09:44h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

On his Facebook page, Robert Higgs writes: Virology is a branch of biological science. Epidemiology is a branch of medicine and demography. Libertarianism (including its subset, individualist anarchy) is an ideology. Do not let your commitment to libertarianism convince you that you do not need to...

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20 Mar Interviews on Optimism and Innovation During a Pandemic

Posted at 10:12h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

"I thought you were the rational optimist. Why are you fear-mongering over Covid-19?" This is a real threat. But we will beat this. And we'll go on to make an even better life for people in the years ahead. I took a deep dive into the Covid-19...

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20 Mar New Virus Podcast

Posted at 05:09h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

A grumpy economist podcast on virus economics so far. Read the Full Article here: >The Grumpy Economist...

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19 Mar We are about to find out how robust civilisation is

Posted at 21:11h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

On Sunday, lonely as a cloud, I wandered across a windswept moor in County Durham and passed a solitary sandstone rock with a small, round hollow in the top, an old penny glued to the base of the hollow. It is called the Butter Stone...

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19 Mar Impossible Foods: Capitalism is The Most Powerful Lever to Fight Climate Change

Posted at 16:30h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Impossible Foods says that animal agriculture is a leading cause of climate change. Instead of trying to pass laws to ban meat, they provided tasty, plant-based alternatives.----------------Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/ReasonTV?sub_...

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19 Mar Revolution Is in the Air

Posted at 16:28h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Before the COVID-19 panic struck in March 2020, many Americans were already disgruntled with major institutions and leaders, from POTUS to SCOTUS and Congress to the value of college and healthcare. While few could articulate the problems with the nation’s healthcare, higher education, or retirement...

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19 Mar A Free-Market Economist’s Thoughts on Coronavirus

Posted at 11:42h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

What answers can free-market thinking offer in the face of COVID-19? Read the Full Article here: >National Review...

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19 Mar What Coronavirus Teaches Us About Human Connection

Posted at 11:37h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

“Only connect!” reads the epigraph to E.M. Forster’s novel Howards End. That phrase possibly encapsulates Forster’s entire philosophy.  It is also contrary to the current commands of our authorities and the mass media: Stay home! Keep inside! Close down! Quarantine! Be afraid! Socially distance! Don’t gather...

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19 Mar Adam Smith: Libertarian in a Foxhole

Posted at 11:33h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

In a piece on conservative liberalism, Dan Klein look at the response of conservatives like Smith, Hume and Burke to crises. For example, when the harvest was poor it was common for England to adopt free trade to import grain. Adam Smith argued that what...

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