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• The Right to Be Left Alone
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  Mark Skousen | Wednesday, May 1, 2002
  “The makers of the Constitution conferred the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by all civilized men—the right to be let alone.” -Justice Louis D. Brandeis According to Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence, one of the “repeated injuries and usurpations” committed against the American people by the King of England […]
• A Man’s Home Once Was His Castle
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  Paul Armentano | Sunday, October 1, 2000
  Few photos have inspired as many words as that of a young Cuban boy face to face with a MP-5 machine gun. The Associated Press photo of federal armed agents seizing Elián González from his Miami relatives aroused outrage among many Americans and—perhaps ironically—several congressional conservatives. And while the photograph was unique, the act it […]
• Seizure Fever: The War on Property Rights
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  James Bovard | Monday, January 1, 1996
  Mr. Bovard is the author of Shakedown (Viking, 1995) and Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty (St. Martin’s, 1994). Mass confiscation has become politically fashionable. Politicians and the courts have created an overwhelming presumption in favor of the government’s right to seize control over private land, private homes, boats, and cars, and even the […]
• Why Governments Can’t Handle Risk
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  Randy T. Simmons | Wednesday, March 1, 1995
  Professor Simmons is the Head of the Political Science Department of Utah State University. Public opinion surveys indicate that mainstream America is worried about environmental risks.[1] In 1990, for the first time since pollsters began asking the questions, a plurality (46 percent) of American voters believed that the quality of life where they live was […]
• The Women’s Agenda
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  Deborah Walker | Friday, April 1, 1994
  Dr. Walker is Associate Professor of Economics at Loyola University in New Orleans. I am often asked, “What is this ‘woman thing’ about anyway?” or, “Why is there a woman’s movement or a feminist agenda at all?” Both men and women have their own ideas about this social movement and what they want to see […]
• Memories of a Recession Past
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  Malcolm A. Kline | Wednesday, July 1, 1992

  Unemployment benefits create perverse incentives.

• Home Schooling: A Personal Experience
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  Hannah Lapp | Monday, April 1, 1991
  Hannah Lapp tells her home schooling story.
• Book Review: Memoirs of an Unregulated Economist by George J. Stigler
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  Richard M. Ebeling | Tuesday, August 1, 1989
  Basic Books, 10 E. 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022 • 1988 • 228 pages • $17.95 cloth. Best-selling novels and popular movies never seem to have an economist as the hero. An archaeologist or an architect, an over-the-hill newspaper man, an inebriated detective—all seem to fit the bill. Even the book version of Death […]
• Voluntary and Coercive Cartels: The Case of Oil
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  David Osterfeld | Sunday, November 1, 1987
  An important policy consideration is the ability of cartels to control prices. Too often this issue is discussed without distinguishing between voluntary, or free market cartels and coercive, or state-supported cartels. This distinction is fundamental. Coercive cartels distort the market, resulting in serious inefficiencies which harm consumers. Voluntary cartels, on the other hand, enhance market […]
• Can Industrial Policy Work?
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  Frank Bubb | Monday, December 1, 1986
  After a wave of enthusiasm for “industrial policy” in 1983 and 1984, the idea now seems dormant at the national level. The advocates of industrial policy, placed on the defensive by pro-market forces and a robust economy, were compelled to backtrack from their initial assertions that a government agency could successfully pick “winners” among private […]