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Excuse me: 20th-century libertarians did not need traditionalist conservative "fusionists" to teach them about virtue. No one said, "All I need is freedom."
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Trading off is *how* we solve problems. We trade less-preferred for more-preferred situations. Sowell's Law reminds us that, as Karl Kraus said, an aphorism is never the whole truth: it's either a half-truth or a truth-and-a-half.
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TGIF: Freedom, Markets, and Income Inequality sheldonrichman.substack.com/…
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Congratulations, Don Boudreaux, on winning the Julian L. Simon Memorial Award. So well-deserved!
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Beware of utopians. And make sure you don't trip over the tens of millions of corpses they left behind them.
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TGIF: Herbert Spencer, Real Liberalism’s Advocate sheldonrichman.substack.com/…
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Happy Constitution Day!
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Minarchists dispute the free-market anarchist premise that most people will tend to prefer bargaining to fighting. Talk about a lack of self-awareness!
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I cite the case of Caplan v. Brook, Soho Court. @GeneSohoForum
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The free market makes all of us near-free-riders. At very low cost, we benefit immensely from other people's achievements. That's a feature not a bug.
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Sheldon Richman retweeted
“We Want That the Whole Land Be Jewish”
Ben-Gurion’s 1937 letter to his son
by Sheldon Richman
@SheldonRichman #Israel
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Highly recommended:
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