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• Energy Economics with Eyes Open
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  Gary Pecquet Ashton J. Pecquet | Friday, February 1, 2002
  Energy is a scarce resource. No one was ever able to have all the energy he wanted. It is neither free nor a gift of nature. Someone must spend labor, wealth, and time to find, produce, and use it. In short, energy is an economic problem. Of course, energy is a vital economic resource. It […]
• Anti-Trade: A Vortex of Absurdity
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  Barry Loberfeld | Tuesday, January 1, 2002
  Barry Loberfeld is a freelance writer. Among the more intriguing examples of junk e-mail to come in over the electronic transom of late was this parable for our times: Joe Smith started the day early, having set his alarm clock (MADE IN ARGENTINA) for 6 a.m. While his coffeepot (MADE IN CHINA) was perking, he […]
• You’ve Got Mail and Now We Have It Too
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  Adam Young | Wednesday, August 1, 2001
  Adam Young is studying computer science in Ontario, Canada. On March 2 it was revealed that for years the government of Canada has been randomly opening the incoming mail of Canadian citizens and copying the contents into a central database—all in the name of fighting illegal immigration. At Canada Post facilities all across the country, […]
• Adventures in Zoning
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  Andrew P. Morriss | Sunday, July 1, 2001
  I live on a quiet dead-end street in a small suburb of Cleveland. A local developer’s plans for a little vacant lot across the street from my house recently led me into the arcane world of municipal land-use planning. The story of this lot illustrates several important lessons about how governments actually function. The lot […]
• Rights Without Exceptions
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  Jeff Snyder | Tuesday, May 1, 2001
  Jeff Snyder is an attorney in New York City and is the “Gun Rights” columnist for American Handgunner magazine. This article is adapted from columns he wrote in the November/December 2000, January/February 2001, and May/June 2001 issues of that magazine. He is the author of Nation of Cowards: Essays on the Ethics of Gun Control […]
• Racial Profiling
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  Walter E. Williams | Sunday, April 1, 2001
  Former President Clinton called for a national crackdown on racial profiling and ordered federal law-enforcement authorities to begin an investigation. While running for president Al Gore promised the NAACP that if elected, eliminating racial profiling by the nation’s police departments would be a top priority.
• Ignoring Real Privacy Problems
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  James Plummer | Friday, December 1, 2000
  James Plummer is a policy analyst with Consumer Alert, a nonpartisan market-oriented consumer group based in Washington, D.C. The folks who make up the behemoth known as the federal government have been fretting about privacy, especially Privacy in the Information Age. Proposed commissions, innumerable conferences, and government reports hype the “danger” posed by online booksellers’ […]
• Austrian Inflation, Austrian Money, and Federal Reserve Policy
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  Kevin Bayer | Friday, September 1, 2000
  Richard Timberlake is a retired professor of economics and author of Monetary Policy in the United States: An Intellectual and Institutional History (University of Chicago Press). Joseph Salerno’s essay in The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, October 1999, extensively criticized the series of three articles I had published in previous issues of the magazine.[1] I find […]
• The Growing Abundance of Fossil Fuels
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  Robert L. Bradley | Monday, November 1, 1999
  Only two decades ago nearly all academics, businessmen, oilmen, and policymakers agreed that the age of energy scarcity was upon us and that the depletion of fossil fuels was imminent. While some observers still cling to that view today, the intellectual tide has turned against doom and gloom on the energy front. Nearly all resource […]
• Ludwig von Mises’s Human Action: A 50th Anniversary Appreciation
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  Richard M. Ebeling | Wednesday, September 1, 1999
  Fifty years ago, on September 14, 1949, Yale University Press released a major new work—Human Action by the Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises.[1] The following week, in his regular Newsweek column, Henry Hazlitt referred to this book as “a landmark in the progress of economics. . . . Human Action is, in short, at once […]