Germany: Sorry, I gave at the State
Posted: December 27, 2011 Filed under: Charity, Free markets, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
Germany: Sorry, I gave at the State
The Legacy of Smith and Hayek: Free The Market
Posted: September 2, 2011 Filed under: Free markets, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
The Legacy of Smith and Hayek: Free The Market
The Virtues of Free Market
Posted: July 27, 2011 Filed under: Doux Commerce Thesis, Free markets Leave a comment »http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj31n2/cj31n2-1.pdf
Personal Freedom Redux
Posted: June 19, 2011 Filed under: Free markets Leave a comment »http://ewot.typepad.com/the_economic_way_of_think/2011/06/personal-freedom-redux.html
Commerce Is Beautiful: The Independent Review: The Independent Institute
Posted: April 27, 2010 Filed under: Free markets, Free Trade, Uncategorized Leave a comment »http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?a=690
Daniel J. Smith
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Responsibility to the Poor
Posted: March 29, 2010 Filed under: Free markets, Income Gap, Inequality, Poverty Leave a comment »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rls8H6MktrA&feature=related
Becker
Posted: March 28, 2010 Filed under: Free markets, Health Care, Health Insurance, Special Interest Groups Leave a comment »“Health care in the United States is pretty good, but it does have a number of weaknesses. This bill doesn’t address them. It adds taxation and regulation. It’s going to increase health costs—not contain them.”
“Here in the United States,” Mr. Becker says, “we spend about 17% of our GDP on health care, but out-of-pocket expenses make up only about 12% of total health-care spending. In Switzerland, where they spend only 11% of GDP on health care, their out-of-pocket expenses equal about 31% of total spending. The difference between 12% and 31% is huge. Once people begin spending substantial sums from their own pockets, they become willing to shop around. Ordinary market incentives begin to operate. A good bill would have encouraged that.”
“People tend to impute good motives to government. And if you assume that government officials are well meaning, then you also tend to assume that government officials always act on behalf of the greater good. People understand that entrepreneurs and investors by contrast just try to make money, not act on behalf of the greater good. And they have trouble seeing how this pursuit of profits can lift the general standard of living. The idea is too counterintuitive. So we’re always up against a kind of in-built suspicion of markets. There’s always a temptation to believe that markets succeed by looting the unfortunate.”
Mises Quote
Posted: March 15, 2010 Filed under: Free markets, Government, Morals, Quotes Leave a comment »“If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.” – Ludwig Von Mises
I, Taco
Posted: March 3, 2010 Filed under: Free markets Leave a comment »http://www.good.is/post/your-taco-deconstructed
Quotes
Posted: February 27, 2010 Filed under: Free markets, Government, Quotes Leave a comment »“The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are, it does not care what their religion is, it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to deal with one another and help one another. “
-Milton Friedman
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. -Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)
The Death of Politics
Posted: February 22, 2010 Filed under: Anarchy, Free markets, Politics, Quotes Leave a comment »“As governments fail around the world, as more millions become aware that government never has and never can humanely and effectively manage men’s affairs, government’s own inadequacy will emerge”
“Politics, throughout time, has been an institutionalized denial of man’s ability to survive through the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare. And politics, throughout time, has existed solely through the resources that it has been able to plunder from the creative and productive people whom it has, in the name of many causes and moralities, denied the exclusive employment of all their own powers for their own welfare.
Ultimately, this must mean that politics denies the rational nature of man. Ultimately, it means that politics is just another form of residual magic in our culture — a belief that somehow things come from nothing; that things may be given to some without first taking them from others; that all the tools of man’s survival are his by accident or divine right and not by pure and simple inventiveness and work.
Politics has always been the institutionalized and established way in which some men have exercised the power to live off the output of other men. But even in a world made docile to these demands, men do not need to live by devouring other men.”
http://fare.tunes.org/books/Hess/dop.html
Adam Smith Quote:
Posted: January 5, 2010 Filed under: Favorite Quotes, Free markets, Law, Legal Systems, Regulation Leave a comment »“That system of laws, therefore, which is connected with the establishment of the bounty, seems to deserve no part of the praise which has been bestowed upon it…The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition, when suffered to exert itself with freedom and security, is so powerful a principle,that it is alone, and without any assistance, not only capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often incumbers its operations; though the effect of these obstructions is always more or less either to encroach upon its freedom, or to diminish its security.” Book 5, Chapter 5
Ten Reasons Not to Abolish Slavery
Posted: December 5, 2009 Filed under: Free markets, Government, Liberty, Slavery Leave a comment »http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/our-economic-past/ten-reasons-not-to-abolish-slavery/
Landsburg on Free Trade
Posted: November 11, 2009 Filed under: Free markets, Free Trade Leave a comment »http://www.thebigquestions.com/2009/11/11/trading-up/
How Singapore’s #1
Posted: November 10, 2009 Filed under: Economic Freedom, Free markets, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
How Singapore’s #1
Louis C.K. Everythings Amazing & Nobodys Happy
Posted: November 3, 2009 Filed under: Free markets, Income Gap, Inequality Leave a comment »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk
Doug Stanhope on Freedom – Hilarious
Posted: November 3, 2009 Filed under: Economic Freedom, Free markets Leave a comment »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTOQhPd2Xh4
Are Living Standards Higher in Demark or the US?
Posted: October 13, 2009 Filed under: Free markets, Living Standards Leave a comment »Medicare and Freedom
Posted: October 5, 2009 Filed under: Free markets, Health Care, Health Insurance Leave a comment »http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2009/10/medicare-and-freedom.html
The Ultimate Chain Letter
Posted: September 18, 2009 Filed under: Capitalism, Cooperation, Economics, Free markets, Trust, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Sent to you via Google Reader
The Ultimate Chain Letter
Kurt Bouwhuis, Mackinac Center Intern
Here is a great essay that is a bit more lengthy than most of my posts that is definately worth your time to read!
By: Russ Roberts
The other day I had to get some important tax receipts to my accountant. He’s in St. Louis, it [...]
Daniel J. SmithSent Via Mobile Phone
Economic Freedom of the World Index 2009
Posted: September 14, 2009 Filed under: Economic Freedom, Free markets, Free Trade, Property Rights, Prosperity Leave a comment »http://www.freetheworld.com/release.html
Is the World Getting Better or Worst?
Posted: September 14, 2009 Filed under: Capitalism, Economic Growth, Free markets, Prosperity Leave a comment »http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/archive/2725/27250901.jpg
