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The Great Fact: A Review of Deirdre McCloskey’s “Bourgeois Dignity”– Article...
Bradley Doucet September 20, 2014 ****************************** We live in astonishing times. We take it for granted, of course, which is good in a way because, well, we have to get on with the...
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My Tiny Cosmopolitan Apartment – Article by Joseph S. Diedrich
Joseph S. Diedrich October 25, 2014 ****************************** Global trade made my little flat a place of international treasures. *** I live in a studio apartment, so my kitchen is my living...
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How Embargoes Destroy Freedom – Article by Ryan W. McMaken
Ryan W. McMaken February 12, 2015 ****************************** In the wake of the Obama administration’s partial normalization of relations with Cuba, proponents of the embargo condemned the move,...
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How the West Invented Individualism – Article by Roger McKinney
Roger McKinney April 1, 2015 ****************************** Inventing the Individual, by Larry Siedentop, Belknap Press, 2014 I lived in Morocco a few decades ago and needed some furniture for our...
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When Peace Breaks Out With Iran… – Article by Ron Paul
Ron Paul ****************************** This has been the most dramatic week in US/Iranian relations since 1979. Last weekend ten US Navy personnel were caught in Iranian waters, as the Pentagon kept...
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Free Trade Is the Path to Prosperity – Article by Georgi Vuldzhev
Georgi Vuldzhev ****************************** The political circus of the 2016 presidential election has revived and reinvigorated popular belief in age-old protectionist fallacies. Currently Donald...
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Brazil’s Lost Decade: We Must Free Our Economy – Article by Felipe Capella
Felipe Capella ****************************** It was a lost decade for Latin America. Years of populist governments combined with a commodity boom turned out to be our oil curse, our Dutch Disease....
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The Rational Argumentator’s Fourteenth Anniversary Manifesto: Who Is the...
G. Stolyarov II August 31, 2016 ****************************** Who Is the Western Man? On the fourteenth anniversary of The Rational Argumentator, it is fitting to consider the tagline that has been...
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What Marx Could Teach Obama and Trump about Trade – Article by Jairaj Devadiga
Jairaj Devadiga ****************************** Karl Marx was hardly known for championing economic freedom. Yet, even he understood the evils of protectionism. Marx, as quoted by his sidekick...
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Stablecoins: The Next Gold Rush? – Article by Adam Alonzi
Adam Alonzi What money should be has been explored by more than one economist. What it is, strange as it may sound, is also up for debate. Yet amidst these disputes, practical and abstract, there is...
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