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28 Jun Sebastian Junger on Freedom

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Journalist and author Sebastian Junger talks about his book, Freedom, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. The book and conversation are based on a 400-mile walk Junger took with buddies along railroad rights-of-way, evading police, railroad security, and other wanderers. Junger discusses the ever-present tension between...

28 Jun Cancel Hardware Stores, Not Amazon Prime

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Local hardware stores have to go. They reliably stock their shelves with various tools at relatively lower prices, but they come with a host of demoralizing and consumerist side effects from discouraging people from making their own tools to a dependency on local owners and...

24 Jun How the Market Drives Down Costs

Posted at 15:27h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

One of the greatest features of modernity is that living standards tend to gradually improve rather than remain largely stagnant – as they did for millennia before 1750 or so. Today, ordinary people have access to goods and services that the royalty of centuries past...

24 Jun Do We Need Patents? A Look at Biological Innovations in 19th Century America

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With the pandemic waning in large part due to the rapid emergence of vaccines, many have become acutely aware of the importance of research and development in improving living standards. Alone, this should be a valuable awakening as many tended to take the generation of...

24 Jun Does The Handmaid’s Tale Get Feminism Wrong?

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On this short, special guest-narrated edition of Out of Frame, co-writer Jen Maffesanti gets into “The Handmaid’s Tale” and its depiction of an oppressive, patriarchal society. With analogies to the modern world, some present-day feminists use this book and series for dramatic political protests. But...

24 Jun The Woke Business Complex

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As he left office in early 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned Americans about the biggest domestic threats to their liberty, the military-industrial and scientific-technological complexes. Ostensibly, those two aspects of what was later sometimes termed The Deep State or The Swamp defeated the Union of...

24 Jun The Death of a Visionary Retailer Reminds Us of Private Equity’s Genius

Posted at 15:25h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Leigh Perkins died last month. Most reading this likely weren’t aware of his passing, or who he was for that matter. But his story has broad relevance in consideration of the times in which we live. About Perkins, his New York Times obituary noted that he “built...

24 Jun The Real Trickle-Down Effect: Making “Luxuries” Affordable to Regular People

Posted at 15:24h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Most readers are familiar with the notion of the "trickle-down effect." This caricature is usually employed by left-leaning economists to denounce tax cuts for the entrepreneurial class. Writing for the Washington Post, Christopher Ingraham tells readers that slashing tax rates for the wealthy fails to...

24 Jun Operation Barbarossa and How Germany Helped Create the Soviet Union

Posted at 05:19h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Doug Bandow On June 22 80 years ago, Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, invading the Soviet Union in a war that stretched along an 1800‐mile front. Less than four years later, the Red Army captured a ruined Berlin. Much of Central and Eastern Europe also was occupied by the Soviets,...

24 Jun John Stuart Mill on America

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I call this Mill’s Conjecture: High wages and universal reading are the two elements of democracy; where they co-exist, all government, except the government of public opinion, is impossible. That is from Mill’s State of Society in America. But is it true about China? The post John Stuart...

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