9 hours ago by kmkremer

A French co-worker recently asked me about the current debate in the US regarding healthcare. He told me that the debate is something that the French just don’t understand. He asked me to give him my opinion about what will happen. “Not what you want to happen,” he said explicitly, but what I think ...

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2 days ago by 12th Man

Freeriders must stop treating group assignments as public goods. Group assignments maybe non-exclusive, but they definitely are’nt non-rival.

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5 days ago by Aaron

Can you renounce your state citizenship? In the last two elections Maine voters killed a slew of referendums that would reverse course on an ever-encroaching government, reform our their terrible education system, and allow everyone to share the joy of marriage equally. We Maine is one of ten states ...

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17 days ago by Michael

What is the role of government? This question needs to be answered before any discussion of institutions. As citizens, we need someone to protect us from crime and from attack by foreign invaders. We need the police and defence for a secure and stable society. There is no question about that. Whethe ...

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17 days ago by garyhaq

INTERNATIONAL cooperation is vital if we are to agree a new deal on climate change at the Copenhagen talks in December. But will non-cooperation be the dominant strategy adopted by world leaders? The problem with the atmosphere is that is a free resource with no ownership. As a consequence it has be ...

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18 days ago by Economic Logician

As I have expressed before on this blog, I am no big fan of patents and copyrights, and monopoly power in general. I am particularly annoyed, on a personal level, by copyrights on music that have been menacing Internet radio for a while now. I have always believed that the fact that artists have a f ...

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19 days ago by Kay Chapman

NYTimes.com article: “The Non-Tragedy of the Commons” Interesting point of view about the self regulation of “resource(s) that don’t belong to anyone”. The author sums up some of the arguments from research by Elinor Ostrom of Indiana University into the management of “commons”. “the effort to prese ...

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20 days ago by Aaron

We all know Michigan’s economy is craptastic; it’s become proverbial, like the Pope crapping in the woods. (Is that a joke anyone makes besides my dad?) Michigan’s a poisonous mix of high, progressive taxes, union influence, and “investments” in public money-sinks like education, public works, and c ...

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20 days ago by Guest Blogger

Our newest guest post, the first of a series, comes from Max Borders. Max works in the trenches of the liberty movement–which means eating bland rations from a tin so he can lob the occasional grenade against the state. When he can find the time, he posts to his own blog .–Editor Liberal academic Ge ...

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24 days ago by Nuwan Waidyanatha

In developing countries such as Sri Lanka, when government has no resources to deliver essential public goods such early warnings, alternate methods must be advocated – that was the idea of the HazInfo research project, where civil society in villages were given training to respond appropriately to ...

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