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Smart Questions About Rights
A. Barton Hinkle asks some very smart questions in his newspaper column “Debates of 2010 Raised More Questions.” Treating the failure to take someone’s money away from him as if…
Freedom of Movement — A Human Right
Some countries don’t allow it internally; almost no country allows true freedom of movement externally (passports are required). Most people don’t think about it, but the US has essentially required…
Wow. Russia’s propaganda channel on….communism
From Russia Today It reminds me of other utterly crazy and despicable attempts to dust off communist tyranny and try it “one more time”: for example, G. A. Cohen on…
Economic Optimism: Take the Bet!
John Tierney of the New York Times on his bet against a Malthusian. Any Malthusians out there who want to make any bets? (We miss you, Julian Simon!)
Happy 101st Year, Ronald Coase!
The great lawyer/economist Ronald Coase is cruising into his 101st year. His 100th birthday was a few days ago (December 30, 2010) and he is still at work teaching economics,…
A Hopeful 2011 Message of Liberty from Africa
From the Audace Institut Afrique.
Hayek’s Thought in Iceland
I was giving a talk on Hayek’s book The Fatal Conceit; I had edited a special edition of the Humane Studies Review on the book, and was in the process…