Topic: Free Markets

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Smart Contracts Provide an Alternative to Legal Enforcement

– November 14, 2017

This is the second in a series of three articles about blockchain-enabled “smart contracts” and their ability to address retail fraud.

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Free Markets Reduce Consumption Inequality

– November 9, 2017

We’ve heard that “there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.” But in the internet age, free stuff abounds. 

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Beware the Lure of Social Engineering

– August 2, 2017

Human dignity, autonomy, and social cooperation are best left to the tender hands of politicians and bureaucrats. Not!

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What the Market Economy Really Is

– July 27, 2017

What is a market economy? We often talk about it as though it were a thing, perhaps a machine or a vehicle. Business reporters say it heats up or cools down. Sometimes it even gets stuck in a ditch. But it’s not a thing subject to heating or cooling or …

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Another Court Blow to Freedom

– July 17, 2017

The free market — indeed, a free society — is founded on individual rights, including the right to one’s justly acquired property. If the government’s rules regarding the use and disposal of property are “flexible,” a free society is doomed. 

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Privatization Is the Best Infrastructure Program

– June 26, 2017

President Trump has begun to flesh out his promise to rebuild America’s infrastructure. His planned “massive investment … will be matched by significant private, state, and local dollars,” Trump said on June 8. The administration has also pledged to of …

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Mandated Paid Family Leave Harms Its Intended Beneficiaries

– June 26, 2017

Business decisions should be made in the marketplace, not in the halls of government.

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Free-Market Principles Would Have Prevented the Use of Force

– April 11, 2017

As airlines often do, last week, United Airlines overbooked a flight. But this time, all was not well. Overbooked flights are nothing new. According to the Federal Transit Authority, U.S. airlines convinced over 400,000 passengers to give up their seat …

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Competition: Just What the Doctor Ordered

– April 3, 2017

By now we should have figured out the cure for what ails the American health care system: a regimen of unadulterated competition. It’s just what the doctor (of sound economics, that is) would order.

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The Opposite of an Employee Benefit

– June 6, 2016

It seems employers are being encouraged to help their young employees spend their money as fast, or even faster, than they earn it.   Some employers are taking the bait.  Some even think it is a benefit to make employees loans, help pay them off, or be better at payday loans than payday lenders.

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Leszek Balcerowicz: The Anti-Bernanke

– December 16, 2012

As an economic crisis manager, Leszek Balcerowicz has few peers. When communism fell in Europe, he pioneered “shock therapy” to slay hyperinflation and build a free market.

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Book Review: John Allison’s The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure

– October 23, 2012

Allison is nothing if not an expert on banking and finance, and having witnessed up close the 2008 financial crack-up that rendered so much of his competition insolvent, he’s written an essential book on the causes of a financial crisis that he unapologetically concludes was born by government error.

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