Wonder Information Tag

09 Apr The Covid Road Not Taken: Protecting Individual Rights

Posted at 20:38h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

There is a failure to focus on fundamentals among both sides in the debate over Covid policy. On the one side are the “lockdowners.” These are the many politicians and medical advisors such as Dr. Anthony Fauci who see health as an overriding end that...

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09 Apr The common sense of economics and divergent approaches in economic thought

Posted at 20:38h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

This paper evaluates the contribution of Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit to the development of economic theory in the 20th century. Our argument in this paper is twofold. First, we contend that this book embodied what had been the common knowledge of early neoclassical economics prior to World...

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09 Apr The Philosophy of Zack Snyder’s Justice League

Posted at 20:37h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

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09 Apr Trust, Corruption, and the Cultural Foundations of Capitalism

Posted at 20:37h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Economists promote free market capitalism as the most advantageous system for human development. Notwithstanding the popularity of their rhetoric, capitalism remains a derisive term in the developing world. Transplanting promarket institutions to developing countries has failed to generate widespread support for capitalism. For capitalism to work...

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09 Apr Young People Are Particularly Vulnerable To Lockdowns

Posted at 20:34h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

In response to the Covid-19 pandemic governments across the world implemented an unprecedented and untested strategy to slow the spread of the disease. Colloquially known as lockdowns, these public health interventions effectively shut down most normal societal functions through the use of stay-at-home orders, school...

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09 Apr The Socialist Blind Spot

Posted at 20:33h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Suppose a planet hurtling in space enters our solar system and begins circulating around the sun. The planet is perfectly habitable for humans. The U.S. government takes 100,000 drug-war prisoners and 100,000 illegal immigrants, along with their families, and forcibly transports them in rocket ships...

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09 Apr The Dangers of Masks

Posted at 20:32h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

This is a public health warning to the US population and elsewhere, as it appears that our public health agencies and television medical experts seem unable to address key health messages that could have a dramatic effect in reducing risk of severe sequelae in higher-risk...

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09 Apr From Charles Kenny

Posted at 20:31h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Friends: I’m writing to tell you about my latest book and ask you to take a look (and share the news). Your World, Better is written for the smart and engaged middle school student.  It looks at how America and the World has changed since the...

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09 Apr Marx, Abstract Labor, and Absurdity

Posted at 20:30h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Many readers will be familiar with Robert Paul Wolff’s In Defense of Anarchism, a brilliant criticism of the state’s authority that arrives at conclusions similar to those of Lysander Spooner. Wolff is probably best known for his work on Kant, but he has published penetrating...

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09 Apr Tyler Cowen on the Great Barrington Declaration

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

  The most recent EconTalk with Russ Roberts interviewing Tyler Cowen is quite good. They cover a lot of territory and Tyler has a lot of insights about culture, among other things. Tyler also, to his credit, even points out predictions and thoughts on which, he...

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