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22 Aug The Chinese Mirror

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The legendary Martian landing on Earth might think that the Chinese state is rapidly converging to the Western world’s freedom. It is doing things like boosting its antitrust laws, expanding regulation, and attacking high-tech companies, all of that in the name of competition. It even...

17 Aug Why We Shouldn’t Fear a Climate Apocalypse

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Environmental scientist Roger Pielke Jr. says many media interpretations of the new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report are "irresponsible."------------------Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/ReasonTV?sub_confirmation=1Like us on Facebook: https://ift.tt/1OFng0MFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/reasonReason is the planet's leading source of news, politics, and culture from a...

17 Aug Most of the People, Most of the Time

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Do you consider yourself to be “free market”? If so, what does that mean? Can you be a fan of the free market, but not necessarily its results? Maybe sometimes you feel like arguing for free markets is like choosing the prettiest pig. Perhaps you’ve always...

17 Aug Egypt’s Bread Subsidies May Bring Millions to the Brink of Starvation

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In Egypt, the recent announcement that bread prices, long subsidized for much of the population, would likely have to rise was met with cries of despair. Indeed, over two-thirds of the population of Egypt depend on inexpensive bread for daily sustenance. In order to understand the...

17 Aug Was George Orwell a Socialist or a Libertarian? It’s Complicated

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When George Orwell’s Animal Farm was first published on August 17 in 1945, World War II in Europe had concluded only three months before. It would end in the Pacific in a matter of days. Britain and the United States were still allied with Stalin’s...

16 Aug Teaching Introductory Economics

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In just over a week I’ll meet the 283 students in my Fall 2021 ECON 103 – “Principles of Microeconomics” – course. And barring any last-minute change, I’ll meet them in person rather than over Zoom. These students are mostly 18-year-old freshmen. While a petite handful...

16 Aug Richard Fisher Interviews Milton Friedman

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16 Aug Business Execs Can’t Maximize Profits and Bash Capitalism

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Business leaders and owners who think they can create profits regardless of the social system are evading facts. Profit maximization cannot be sustained in socialism or any other freedom-killing statist system toward which America seems headed today. A recent Wall Street Journal column, comparing 1970’s...

16 Aug untitled

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August 16, 2021 Why do some people support tyranny while others defy it?fromAlt-Market: “The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.”The Government...

16 Aug Nicholas Wapshott on Samuelson and Friedman

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Journalist and author Nicholas Wapshott talks about his book Samuelson Friedman with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Milton Friedman and Paul Samuelson were two of the most influential economists of the last century. They competed for professional acclaim and had very different policy visions. The conversation...

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