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 February 6, 2020

Mises Institute

By J. Kyle deVries

What Year Did Healthcare Become a "Right"?

Was healthcare a natural right two hundred years ago? If so, how is it that this "right" to eighteenth-century medicine morphed into a right to MRIs and chemotherapy? Do rights change with technology? That's not how rights work.

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By Ryan McMaken

Brexit Voters Aren't As "Irrational" As Their Opponents Think

Some anti-Brexit pundits tried to frame the Brexit debate as one of savvy economics-minded people against economic illiterates. These people missed the point.

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By Doug French

Shhhh: Repo Operation in Process

These days, the commercial banking system isn’t where the action is. Instead, it’s the shadow banking system that needs direct feeding to goose inflation—at least inflation in asset prices, and also to keep the debt service on the nation’s debt as low as possible.

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By Ludwig von Mises

Do People Really Seek to Maximize Profit?

Economics is not intent upon pronouncing value judgments. It aims at a cognition of the consequences of certain modes of acting.

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