The Trump administration’s downsizing USAID has brought the usual claims: that without US aid, millions of poor people around the world will die of starvation and disease. Not surprisingly, the claims are exaggerated.
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Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org
The Free Market for Security
In his concluding argument, Molinari envisions a society where security is provided by competing private firms chosen voluntarily by consumers.
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The Regime of Terror
Molinari describes the inevitable consequences of monopolized security: rising costs, declining quality, and the use of force against the very citizens the government claims to protect.
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The Divine Right of Kings and Majorities
Molinari argues that majority rule is no more legitimate than royal absolutism when it violates individual rights.
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Government and Society
Molinari distinguishes between society, which arises naturally from voluntary human cooperation, and government, which imposes itself through force.
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The Monopolization and Collectivization of the Security Industry
Molinari describes how coercive control over defense led to the familiar abuses of taxation, war, and the suppression of individual liberty.
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Monopoly and Communism
Molinari draws a parallel between monopoly and communism, arguing that both represent departures from the principle of free competition.
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The Alternatives
Molinari frames this choice as the central political question that determines whether a society will be free or oppressed.
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Security an Exception?
Molinari confronts the common objection that security is somehow different from other goods and must be exempted from market provision.
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Competition in Security
Molinari applies the general principle of free competition directly to the provision of security services.
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The Natural Order of Society
Molinari argues that the division of labor and voluntary cooperation form the natural basis of social organization.
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The Production of Security
Molinari opens by establishing that humans have a fundamental need for security of their persons and property.
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Preface by Murray N. Rothbard
Rothbard introduces Molinari's essay as a pioneering work that took free-market principles to their logical conclusion by questioning the state's monopoly on defense.
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The Tragedy of Socialized Fertility
The dearth of child-bearing in western countries like the US is seen as a political crisis. Yet, if there is any place in our lives where government should stay out, it is in the area of childbirth.
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U.S. Debt Tops 100% of GDP
The U.S. national debt now exceeds 100% of gross domestic product, crossing a once-unthinkable threshold, on the way toward breaking the record set in the wake of World War II.
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Stuff that Fed Officials Say
Ryan McMaken, Jonathan Newman, and Joshua Mawhorter of the Mises Institute take a look at the politics of "fedspeak" and what officials at the Federal Reserve really mean when they say they're going to fix the Fed.
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NYT: “The U.S. Military Was Losing Its Edge. After Iran, Everyone Knows It.”
" But the problem is bigger than any single commander in chief. The United States has left itself unprepared for modern war."
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The Shadow Chair
A soft coup took place in D.C. last night, and Jerome Powell could stay in the bunker until 2028, if he so chooses.
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New DOJ report details how Biden’s FBI targeted Christians
Biden's FBI "diligently attempted to use its enforcement authority against parents who defended their children’s safety at local school board meetings."
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We Are Living in the Fourth American Republic
The old republic is gone. The constitutional order of the Jeffersonian years—i.e., the so-called "American experiment"—was swept away long ago.
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Heads up for NZD and CHF traders, RBNZ Gov Breman and SNB Chair Schlegel to speak
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Swiss franc appreciation has led to tighter monetary conditions – SNB minutes
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SNB’s Chairman Schlegel: A few months of negative inflation wouldn’t be a problem
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