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Tuesday, December 17, 2024
 
 
“Personnel Is Policy” Means the Rule of Law Is Dying
Vincent Cook
Those carrying out government directives are even less bound by law than they were a few years ago, and talk about new bureaucrats is beginning to resemble the Kremlinology of the Cold War.
 
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The Health Insurance Disaster
Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
The recent murder of Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, has led many people to claim that private health insurance is an example of what is wrong with the free market, and that we ought, in consequence of its manifest failures, to institute a government-run, single-payer system.
 
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Do You Hate the State?
 
Murray Rothbard: “The abolitionist would blister his thumb pushing a button that would abolish the state immediately.”
 
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Personnel Management Under an Unhampered Labor Market
 
The price of labor is determined by the consumers’ demands for goods and services.
 
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The Economics of Medical Waiting Rooms
“Hurry up and wait” is often the reality of medical care. We shouldn’t be surprised to know that long lines and government intervention go together.
 
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Subjective Valuation Versus Arbitrary Valuation
One important difference between the Austrian and other schools of thought is the emphasis Austrians place upon purposeful human behavior. Consumption by individuals is purposeful action.
 
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Dred Scott, Politics, and the “Living” Constitution
Some legal “experts” are claiming that the Supreme Court’s infamous 1857 Dred Scott decision is still used in current law. That, of course, is nonsense.
 
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The Life and Work of Ludwig von Mises
 
Ralph Raico (1936–2016) presented this lecture at Mises University 2007.
 
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The Misesian
 
Another national election has come and gone. Unfortunately, though, opposition to the status quo is not the same thing as support for peace, freedom, or free markets.
 
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