Just as central planners cannot know how individuals will value a product or service, so too are central planners unable to calculate or plan for the endless array of risk assessments made by potential victims of covid-19.
With the Caribbean trade bloc Caricom, we find an international "free" trade agreement being used by a Dominica-based company to demand more limits on trade between Jamaica and a country outside the bloc. This isn't about free trade.
Many support democracy because for them the collective or "republican" liberty they favor far exceeds individual liberty in importance. Those of us who follow Mises and Rothbard will disagree.
