Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib of Michigan has a big idea, almost Trumplike with a T. Her proposal to save us from the Coronavirus and economic collapse involves giving every American $2,000 in a pre-loaded debit card, to be followed by additional $1,000 monthly recharges until the economy recovers (aka in perpetuity). This is simply a version of
George Mason University economist Tyler Cowen has penned a brief manifesto for what he calls “State Capacity Libertarianism” on the Marginal Revolution blog. In it he makes the case for libertarians to embrace “state capacity” in certain limited cases. You can read his essay here. My initial responses, in no particular order, are as follows: 1.
Sean Stevens of Heterodox Academy and Professor Mitchell Langbert of Brooklyn College have a new article published by the National Association of Scholars. They examined professors’ self-identified political views, party affiliation, voter registrations, and FEC (Federal Election Commission) records of political donations. Their research appears
Dr. Joe Salerno recently penned a response to economist Tyler Cowen’s call for “S tate Capacity Libertarianism .” It’s a very important essay, and I encourage you to read it. It gets to the heart of a very important and broad question in America today, namely whether what we can call the ”managerial capitalism” of the twentieth and early
Sometimes terrible things happen without any human malfeasance, and the novel Wuhan coronavirus may in fact be one of those things. It is entirely plausible the virus emerged from “ wet markets “ in the Hubei Province of China rather than as a fumbled (or worse, intentionally released) bioweapon cooked up by the Xi Jinping government. We may
Which state has the courage to become the Sweden of the US, and take a different (read: better, freer) approach to coronavirus ? As of yesterday, five US states remain at least reasonably “open” in terms of their implemented measures to fight the pandemic. Arkansas, Nebraska, and South Dakota have no state orders in place closing businesses and
On this episode of Part Of The Problem , Dave Smith interviews Jeff Deist. Dave and Jeff discuss the future of a Post COVID-19 world; how rights once taken are rarely given back; and how a free market would be better prepared for a crisis than our system of
Dear Portlandia progressives: a federal government big enough to take care of you is a federal government big enough to “take care of you.” Scary unidentifiable police, federal black sites, and procedureless snatching of individuals from the streets are the wholly predictable and natural consequences of the very policies you advocated for decades
Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article. Donald Trump’s executive order issued earlier this week purports to prevent online censorship by effectively instructing federal agencies to reinterpret the Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA). In particular, Trump has a well-founded complaint with the infamous section 230 of the
Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article. It’s one thing for mass democracy to produce bad results, in the form of elected politicians or enacted policies. It’s another when the democratic process itself breaks down because nobody trusts the vote or the people who count it. But that’s precisely where we are. As things stand at this
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