Jamie stands in line at the county welfare office once every month. She knows the routine. She takes a number,…
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The Daily Libertarian
Economics and Politics for your Daily Life
The Price Delusion: How Keynesian Economics Replaced Real Growth With Bubbles
Young people in America today believe the economy has failed them. They look at the entry point for new homes…
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Lean Government: Medical Care Without Illusions
My first wife had a cousin who died of a heroin overdose at eighteen. I met her a few times.…
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A Father’s Fascism
When I was 18, I joined the Marine Corps Reserves. After four years, I decided to go full-time. It turns…
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Lean Government: Systemic Free-Market Realism
In my book, The Way Forward: Lean Leadership and Systems Thinking for Large and Small Businesses, I set out to…
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Political Moralism: The Framework of Control
Benjamin Franklin once wrote, “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have…
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What Is an Economy, and What Is It For, Part 2
Last week we asked what an economy is and what it is for, and we looked at various economic forms,…
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What Is an Economy, and What Is It For, Part 1
I started my last essay with a definition, using a dictionary from 1985 to make sure the definition I was…
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The Liberty Revolution: Why the Industrial Revolution Is a Myth
Nineteenth-century British intellectual Lord Acton once said, “Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself…
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They Broke the Market—Now They’re Selling You the Cage
Mark Twain once said that a young man who is not a liberal has no heart, and an old man…
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