Tag: economic intervention

Economics

A $15 Minimum Wage Would Hurt Those it’s Meant to Help

This article was originally published on CNN Business on February 9, 2021. The full text can be found here. This is the sixth ...

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Culture

Where did all the Poor People Go?

This is the third of 7 installments in our series, “Compassion, Not Compulsion: Why the Welfare State Fails to Lift ...

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Economics

Wait Till It’s Free

  Last Friday evening, the Christians for Liberty Austin Chapter met to watch Wait Till It’s Free, a documentary produced ...

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Book Reviews

The Taste of War

Review of Lizzie Collingham, The Taste of War: World War II and the Battle for Food (The Penguin Press, 2012), ...

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Economics

The War on Poverty: A Critical View

By Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. This essay was ...

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Economics

Moral Busybodies

This is a post originally written for the Prometheus blog, but it no longer appears there so I thought I’d ...

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History

The Robber Barons and the Real Gilded Age

By Edmund Opitz, author of The Libertarian Theology of Freedom and Religion and Capitalism: Allies, Not Enemies. The Civil War ...

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Libertarianism

Stop Statism

Statists are anti-progress. Statists claim their policies are for the common good. For some this claim is just a front ...

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Libertarianism

Stop Rent-seeking

This article is #17 of a weekly series highlighting the former memes of Bureaucrash, an organization once headed by my ...

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Libertarianism

Smoking is Healthier than Fascism

This article is #15 of a weekly series highlighting the former memes of Bureaucrash, an organization once headed by my ...

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Economics

Progressives Against Progress

“Progress” is an abused word these days, especially by bureaucrats and the special interest groups that cater to them. Yet ...

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Economics

What’s the difference between a gas station and a hospital?

We hear a lot of Republican and Democrat talking points about healthcare.  As Libertarians, it’s important that people understand that ...

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Economics

Free Trade Now!

Free trade exists when governments do not interfere with commercial transactions between individuals domestically and internationally. Free trade makes America ...

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Economics

Ethics and Business

Business and the businessman have had a bad press, almost uniformly. Do you remember the television show whose hero was ...

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Economics

Freedom and Majority Rule

By Edmund Opitz Lord Northcliffe, the publisher of the London Times, came to this country a few years after World ...

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President's Blog

A Quote from Rand to Consider

I ran across this quote in an email on the Christian Libertarian Yahoo Group, and it struck me in a ...

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News

Paul Krugman: Stop Talking Please

If you have been following the news lately, you’ve likely heard a resurgence of the claim that Paul Krugman predicted ...

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Book Reviews

“Economics in Christian Perspective” Book Review

LibertarianChristians.com is pleased to welcome Michael Douma as our next guest poster, reviewing "Economics in Christian Perspective: Theory, Policy, and ...

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Announcements

ASC Day 3: Method and Politics and More!

First off, thanks to everyone who has been following the ASC via my blog and twitter updates. It has been ...

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Announcements

ASC Day 1: Author’s Forum and a Jewish Rabbi

The day began with coffee and bagels at the Mises Institute’s courtyard area. I met some nice people and caught ...

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American History

“Myths America Lives By” Book Review

A review of Richard Hughes’s book Myths America Lives By. Richard Hughes’s seminal book can be roughly described as exploding ...

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