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Art Carden
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I saw my first Tesla Roadster a few weeks ago; I passed it in Los Angeles on my way to the airport. I have heard interesting things about Tesla as an innovative company: they have broken new ground on the production of cars that don’t run on gasoline and that don’t produce noxious emissions. The first-generation Tesla Roadsters are shockingly
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Unfortunately, the great libertarian polemics of the middle of the 20th century are taking on a newfound relevance as we trudge along the road to serfdom. Fortunately, the most important ideas in the classical-liberal tradition are crystallized in these works. One such work is Ludwig von Mises’s 1956 book The Anticapitalistic Mentality . He
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Recently, the Shelby County Commission passed an ordinance that would make it illegal for employers and firms that contract with the county to discriminate against people based on sexual orientation. Unfortunately, the discussion got bogged down in questions about whether homosexuality is or is not moral. It was assumed that the government can
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Legislation has outlawed “child labor” in the United States in various manifestations for decades, yet child labor persists for several reasons and through many different channels. While children no longer work in factories or in other occupations, they still work in family businesses (on farms, in family restaurants, etc.), and less obvious
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[An MP3 audio file of this article, read by Floy Lilley, is available for download.] Henry Hazlitt once said that good ideas have to be relearned every generation. Among the intellectuals of our time, capitalism is wildly unpopular. This in spite of the fact that it is the only social system that has permitted prosperity and flourishing. Why
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Can the monetary system regulate itself, or does it require oversight by government regulators? According to Lawrence H. White, who gave a lecture entitled “Can the Monetary System Regulate Itself?” at Rhodes College this past March the answer to the first question is “yes” and the answer to the second question is “no.” [1] According to
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[This article is based on Professor Carden’s lecture “Common Objections to Capitalism,” given at the 2009 Mises University Summer Program on July 30, 2009, and available as an MP3 download .] A lot of people object to what they call “capitalism,” but their objections hold little or no water once they are examined critically. Let’s consider some of