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• Help Your Struggling Community, by Moving Away
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  Ilya Somin | Friday, April 7, 2017

  By moving to regions with greater economic opportunity and better public policy, people incentivize jurisdictions to adopt better policies in order to be more competitive. That can benefit society as a whole, not just those who actually move. 

• The Lazy Millennial Guide to Long-Distance Relationships
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  Eileen Wittig | Friday, March 31, 2017

  My grandmother was raised on a sheep station in the Outback of Australia. My grandfather was raised in Milwaukee. They hit it off, thankfully, and 70-odd years later I’m part of the 4% of the US population in a long-distance relationship. Naturally this is a lot easier now than it was for my grandparents – thank you, social media – but here are some other, more original ways to make it more bearable.

• Find Your Next Job on Facebook
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  Lesya Liu | Saturday, March 25, 2017

  Facebook is making its creepily comprehensive knowledge of its users available to employers looking to hire help.

• The Hidden War on Affordable Housing
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  Emily Hamilton | Sunday, March 19, 2017

  Imposing middle-class standards on housing may soothe urban reformers’ consciences, but it makes low-income people worse off. By allowing boarding houses and the subdivision of existing housing, market-rate housing could be much more affordable.

• There’s Hope for Ending Civil Asset Forfeiture
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  Jenna Moll | Saturday, March 18, 2017

  Civil asset forfeiture is a procedure where state and federal government actors seize property from private citizens under the suspicion that the property is somehow involved with a crime. But those citizens are rarely convicted or even criminally charged.

• Free Markets Accomplish Progressives’ Housing Ideals
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  Shane Phillips |

  Progressives are learning that by doing essentially nothing but “letting things happen” in the housing market, we can provide opportunities for low-income and working classes to build wealth and get ahead.

• Why Israel Kirzner Deserves a Nobel Prize
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  Peter J. Boettke | Tuesday, March 14, 2017

  Israel Kirzner has, along with William Baumol and Harold Demsetz, done more than any other living modern economist to improve our understanding of competitive behavior and the operation of the price system in a market economy, and thus deserves serious consideration for the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.

• Liberty and “Social” Justice for All Is Impossible
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  Gary M. Galles | Monday, March 6, 2017

  You can’t have coercive “social justice” and “liberty and justice for all.”

• How to Lazily Dig a Well in Africa
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  Eileen Wittig | Thursday, January 26, 2017

  I decided I “needed” my own coffee mug at work. Rather than giving my mug money to help Corporation, Inc., I wanted to help people who actually needed it – such as people in the desert of Africa. But I also didn’t want to fly to Africa and waste everyone’s time pretending to help build a well. So I went online instead.

• Europe Rose Because of Jurisdictional Competition
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  Daniel J. Mitchell | Friday, January 20, 2017

  Several hundred years ago, Europe experienced the enlightenment and industrial revolution while the empires of Asia languished. This was due in part to the fact that Europe benefited from decentralization and jurisdictional competition.