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• Hayek: Born 113 Years Ago
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  Sheldon Richman | Tuesday, May 8, 2012
  F. A. Hayek, the great champion of liberty and expositor of Austrian economics, was born 113 years ago today. His accomplishments could not possibly be covered in a blog post. See this celebration of his life on the occasion of his centenary and these other articles. For much more, search “Hayek” in our search engine. Many […]
• Allegory and Political Economy: Communication and Cooperation
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  Daniel B. Klein | Thursday, April 26, 2012
  “We must look at the price system,” wrote Friedrich Hayek, “as . . . a mechanism for communicating information if we want to understand its real function.” Hayek’s talk of communication was a great advance in economic thinking. Talk of communication is common among market-oriented economists. In their textbook Tyler Cowen and Alexander Tabarrok write: […]
• The Chimera of Tax Fairness
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  Sheldon Richman | Wednesday, March 28, 2012
  President Obama plays the fairness card in calling for higher taxes on upper-income people. He says, “[W]e need to change our tax code so that people like me, and an awful lot of Members of Congress, pay our fair share of taxes. Tax reform should follow the Buffett rule: If you make more than $1 […]
• The Internet Dodges the SOPA Bullet — for Now
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  Sheldon Richman | Friday, January 20, 2012

  Last week the acronyms SOPA and PIPA were unheard of, much less decipherable, by most people.

• And the Slump Goes On
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  Ángel Martín Oro | Thursday, February 24, 2011
  Official economic statistics and the underlying economic reality sometimes differ starkly. Such discrepancies may be almost inevitable when a small group of macroeconomic experts sets the official dates for peaks and troughs of aggregate economic activity. The Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) recently “determined that a trough in […]
• Can Government Save Us from Manmade Disasters?
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  Kevin Bayer | Friday, October 22, 2010
  Please, folks, can’t we have a little more sophistication about what it takes to prevent environmental disasters? The politicians seem to be stuck on the idea that more government is the solution, and many journalists echo the theme. In discussing the BP spill and several other manmade environmental disasters last summer, Washington Post reporters David […]
• What’s Wrong with Reparations for Slavery
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  Stefan Spath | Wednesday, June 30, 2010
  There has been much debate recently about reparations for slavery. According to its proponents, the federal government should award Americans of African descent financial damages solely because slavery, as an institution, existed in the United States from the founding until almost a century later. Three principal arguments are offered: (1) The legacy of slavery has […]
• The Pernicious Nature of Victimless-Crime Laws
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  Joseph S. Fulda | Sunday, June 27, 2010
  Laws creating victimless crimes are particularly pernicious laws. Their associated evils are essential rather than accidental; that is, their destructive properties stem from their very nature as victimless. It will soon become clear why federal judges commonly write and speak of “the drug exception” to search-and-seizure (Fourth Amendment) jurisprudence, why double agents lead double lives […]
• Competition and Cooperation
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  Steven Horwitz | Thursday, June 10, 2010

  Competition and cooperation are often juxtaposed, yet in the market they are two sides of the same activity.

• A Triple Whammy for Austrian Economics
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  Sandy Ikeda | Wednesday, August 19, 2009
  They say that when economic times are good businesses can get away with sloppy practices. In the intellectual world, however, it seems that sloppy thinking prevails in desperate times and important distinctions get thrown out the window. A good example of this appeared recently in a March 4 New York Times article titled “Ivory Tower […]