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• How Moral Outrage Makes Markets Work
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  Julian Adorney | Thursday, March 10, 2016

  Protests and boycotts are essential to a healthy market, because markets rely on discerning consumers to guide them.

• Capitalists from Outer Space
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  BK Marcus | Monday, August 10, 2015

  When we make contact, we will learn that the aliens embrace what Adam Smith called “the system of natural liberty.”

• The Complete Bibliography of Henry Hazlitt
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  Henry Hazlitt | Monday, March 2, 2015
  Books1915 Thinking as a Science, New York: E.P. Dutton. Reissued 1916; with epilogue, Los Angeles: Nash Publishing, 1969.1922 The Way to Will Power, New York: E. P. Dutton.1933 A Practical Program for America (ed.), New York: Harcourt and Brace. Reprinted, Freeport,N.Y.: Books for Libraries, 1967.1933  The Anatomy of Criticism, New York: Simon & Schuster.1933  Instead […]
• Tyranny of Reason: The Origins and Consequences of the Social Scientific Outlook
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  Edward Younkins Yuval Levin | Thursday, August 1, 2002
  Tyranny of Reason is an accessible work of Western intellectual history in the tradition of Karl Popper’s Open Society and Its Enemies, Leonard Peikoff’s The Ominous Parallels, and Thomas Sowell’s A Conflict of Visions. In this powerfully argued book, Yuval Levin, associate director at the Center for the Study of Technology and Society, traces the […]
• Today’s War on Property
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  R. W. Bradford | Saturday, February 1, 1997
  R. W. Bradford is editor and publisher of Liberty. What is the status of property rights in the United States today? Consider the following true story. When Hurricane Hugo devastated the Carolina coast in 1992, it wasn’t long before local lumberyards began to run out of building supplies. So Selena Washington decided to drive to […]
• A Little Erosion of Liberty
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  Lawrence W. Reed | Monday, January 1, 1996
  Landlords and tenants are not usually on the same side in the courtroom. But in Kalamazoo, Michigan, a group of tenants are standing up for their property rights and supporting their landlord against the City’s inspection policy. It’s a case with far-reaching implications that should concern every American. When conducting building code inspections, the City […]
• Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought
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  Jonathan Rauch Jonathan H. Adler | Tuesday, March 1, 1994
  Freedom of speech lies at the heart of classical liberal thought. Without it, classical liberals have always understood, most other freedoms are nearly unprotectable and scarcely meaningful. Yet today, in America as in many ostensibly liberal nations, the freedom to speak one’s mind is under assault. Buttressing the intellectual defenses of freedom of speech against […]
• How the Entrepreneurial Spirit is Transforming the Public Sector
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  T. Franklin Harris Jr. | Saturday, May 1, 1993

  Economic intervention will always result in inefficiency. 

• Information and the Economic Problem
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  Brent Johnstone | Friday, August 1, 1986
  is that they look at the economic problem from the perspective of the subaltern clerk whose intellectual horizon does not extend beyond subordinate tasks. They consider the structure of industrial production and the allocation of capital to the various branches and production aggregates as rigid, and do not take into account the necessity of altering […]
• The Supply of Labor
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  Hans F. Sennholz | Monday, October 1, 1984
  1. The population is growing but economic production is stagnating or expanding at a lesser rate so that the marginal productivity of labor declines. In free labor markets declining labor productivity causes wage rates to fall. Where government seeks to bolster wages by law or regulation and labor unions defend or even raise the rates […]