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Reviving Private Prosecution Could Transform Victims’ Rights
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Public Employees Have the Right to Talk Politics without Risking their Jobs
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Adam N. Michel Artaxerxes | Wikimedia Commons President Donald Trump told CBS News recently that he wants to “take off the gas tax for...
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Nicholas Anthony Once again, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is breaking the law by failing to share the full suite of data needed...
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Matthew Cavedon In commemoration of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week at the end of April, Detroit’s chief prosecutor Kym Worthy promised that her office...
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In Graham Moore’s The Wealth of Shadows, John Maynard Keynes is a hero for his monetary manipulations. However, in the real world, the economics...
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Every nation-state boundary was drawn by force. Should we treat them as sacred the same way we treat a house or factory? Rothbard says...
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Jeffrey Miron The Great Depression led to dramatic increases in bank regulation. One study looks at an instance of bank deregulation during this period: state-level...
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A central banker has two lives: the first is spent studying neoclassical money supply mechanics; the second begins when they realize the real world...
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Thomas A. Berry, Dan Greenberg, and Harrison Prestwich Jeanne Hedgepeth worked for 20 years as a public school teacher at Palatine High School in Illinois....
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In 1871, the “discovery” of marginal economic analysis soon took a wrong turn, moving towards quantification, data, and mathematics. It is time to “rediscover”...
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Human Action sold thousands of copies, earned accolades from across the political spectrum, and made zero acknowledged impression on the economics profession. Or did...
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A Libertarian Party presidential nominee said he was open to a carbon tax. Mises would have had a different suggestion, and Timothy Terrell explains...
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Jeffrey A. Singer Recently, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. expressed concern about psychiatric overprescribing, especially among children and adolescents. Critics quickly accused him of...
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A labor economist at the University of Chicago devoted his career to Veblen’s institutionalism. When he finally saw through the foundations, he told a...
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Should banks contract credit during a bust? Mises said yes. Rothbard disagreed. Patrick Newman traces a subtle but consequential rift between master and student.
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The engineer and the gambler both face uncertainty, but only one can control the forces involved. Jonathan Newman explores the gap between plan and...