Markets work with altruism, too
The market can route self-interest toward the common good. But the market channels altruism better than the state too.
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Quietly creating freedom: Private communities and special economic zones
The astonishing growth in SEZs qualifies as a revolution of sorts, but not the usual, political kind.
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Do government employees have a right to religious liberty?
Religious liberty is a fundamental right, but what should happen if the law asks bureaucrats to choose between their religion and their job?
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Fashion design and copyright
Should fashion designs be eligible for copyrights? When I listen to people talk about this issue, many of the same interesting arguments come up. These people know about designer knockoffs and feel that something is not quite fair about them. Yet they also view copyists as moving innovation along in the fashion world. Copying releases […]
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Women work for equality — but these 3 policy ideas don’t
This Women’s History Month, let’s avoid the trap of looking at women’s equality as a problem that only politicians can solve.
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Entitlements driving Washington to trillion-dollar deficits
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently released the “The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2017 to 2027.” This annual report provides the federal government’s most comprehensive analysis of the current state of federal spending, taxes, and debt. It also provides a framework within which to analyze the President’s budget proposal and upcoming Congressional legislation. The news is […]
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Anne Hutchinson: The spirit of religious liberty
Opinions of Anne Hutchinson have, shall we say, covered the waterfront. In his masterful tome, Conceived in Liberty, 20th-century economist and libertarian historian Murray Rothbard cast her as a staunch individualist and the greatest threat to the “despotic Puritanical theocracy of Massachusetts Bay.” John Winthrop, the 2nd, 6th, 9th, and 12th governor of the Massachusetts […]
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Mercy Otis Warren: Conscience of Great Causes
Two centuries before “women’s lib,” in the run-up to America’s Revolutionary War, Mercy Otis Warren was already a liberated woman by the standards of her day. And she did the liberating herself. In the latter half of the 18th century, Warren was an accomplished poet, playwright, pamphleteer, and historian — though much of what she […]
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Entrepreneurs create value for disabled workers.
Any entrepreneur who succeeds in reducing costs faced by a laborer who suffers from a disability can earn a profit.
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History, progress, and the fate of gay marriage
The future belongs to everyone, and the arc of the universe bends nowhere in particular.
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It’s never worth playing the Olympic game
Budapest has done the sensible thing and withdrawn from the competition to host the 2024 Summer Olympics. Finally a refutation of the standard point about economists – that the more united their view on a subject the less attention anyone else pays to them. For the truth about the Olympics is that they are a […]
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Violent video games do not cause real-world aggression
Upon seeing a copy of the (now classic) fighting game Mortal Kombat, Senator Joe Lieberman announced his intention to introduce legislation that would prohibit the sale of such games to minors.
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