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• Unemployment Benefits: The Government Gets What It Pays For
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  Robert P. Murphy | Wednesday, February 25, 2015

  The surprisingly robust growth in the US economy in 2014 may have been due to the late 2013 decision by Congress to cease extensions of unemployment benefits. When the federal government stopped sending checks to people who remained unemployed, more of them found work.

• The 2010 Nobel Prize in Economics
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  Sheldon Richman | Monday, October 11, 2010
  The three winners are Peter A. Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen, and Christopher A. Pissarides for their work on the theory of unemployment. For rundowns of the contributions of these three men, see Tyler Cowen’s (somewhat technical) posts at Marginal Revolution. Tyler Cowen’s co-blogger, Alex Tabarrok, summarizes the prize thus: The 2010 Nobel Prize awarded to […]
• Book Review: Discovery, Capitalism, And Distributive Justice by Israel M. Kirzner
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  Charles W. Baird | Wednesday, August 1, 1990
  Basil Blackwell, P.O. Box 1655, Hagerstown, MD 21741 • 1989 • 179 pages • $29.95 cloth In three earlier books (1973, 1979, and 1985), Israel Kirzner developed his positive theory of market process which, he convincingly argued, is superior to neoclassical comparative statics as a framework for understanding how markets work in the real world. […]
• The Growth of an Idea
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  FEE | Wednesday, February 1, 1956
  Thousands of FREEMAN readers have had little opportunity to learn about the journal’s publisher—the Foundation for Economic Education. So this month, in the space usually reserved for Charles Wolfe’s report of current “News From Irvington,” the folks at FEE will try to present a clear over-all picture of what they believe and what they do. […]
• California’s Bill Restricting Speech Is Authoritarian
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  Barry Brownstein | Wednesday, September 19, 2018

  California is on the verge of going down the slippery slope of placing authoritarian restrictions on speech. Whether Governor Brown signs the bill or not, a mindset—inimical to a free society—is on full display for the rest of America to see and, hopefully, reject.

• What if We Treated Public Schools as Monopolies?
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  Kevin Currie-Knight | Tuesday, July 3, 2018

  If commercial monopolies are bad because their power gives them the ability to do bad things, it seems strange to treat government monopolies any differently. And if breaking up commercial monopolies is allegedly good for consumers, who benefit from competition between providers, I’d suggest this probably also holds true when talking about public school systems.

• The XYZ’s of Socialism
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  Lawrence W. Reed | Thursday, April 5, 2018

  New anthology ebook edited by Lawrence W. Reed!

  “When a socialist says he wants to give you “the ABC’s of socialism,” you can be sure that’s as far into the alphabet as he’ll want to go. Happy talk, vague promises, political programs, perhaps an angry, envy-soaked tirade or two against the rich—but not much at all about where all that leads. That part always gets a little embarrassing.”

• Hearts at War Should Not Have the Nuclear Codes
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  Barry Brownstein | Monday, August 8, 2016

  What happens to our decision-making when we believe that other people are less than human? What happens when those with distorted beliefs have the power to harm others?

   

• What East Germany Can Teach Americans about the Current Supply Chain Crisis
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  Walter Block | Thursday, January 20, 2022

  During the Cold War, communist functionaries who visited West Germany continually complained that only a few grocery stores in East Germany were as fully packed as those in West Germany.

  What were they doing differently? 

• 93 Vermont Towns Have No Public Schools, But Great Education. How Do They Do It?
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  Laura Williams | Friday, January 31, 2020

  Can Vermont’s quirky “tuition town” model work elsewhere? Probably.