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Robert Higgs | Tuesday March 6, 2018 at 11:05 AM PDT | Comments Off on A Straightforward View of Morality and the Government
If an action is immoral for me and you, it is also immoral for others, including those who constitute the government.
Tags: anarchism, Congress, election, government, Robert Higgs
Robert Higgs | Thursday August 24, 2017 at 1:33 PM PDT | Comments Off on Principal-agent Theory and Representative Government
In recent decades economists have devoted great efforts to the analysis of the principal-agent problem (see for example Milgrom and Roberts 1992 and the Wikipedia article on “Principal-agent Problem”). This area of study has to do with the incentives and disincentives of an agent acting on behalf of a principal that he is presumed or...
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Tags: agency, Congress, Constitution, democracy, election, Elections, government, political, Politics, public choice, representative, republic
Abigail R. Hall | Thursday January 26, 2017 at 7:03 PM PDT | Comments Off on My Vagina Doesn’t Care for Your Identity Politics
A couple years ago I arrived in New Orleans for a small conference. Prior to the opening dinner and reception, I went to the hotel gym to exercise. There was a man on one of the other cardio machines, and a national news network was on the TV. I got on the treadmill and...
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Tags: Economics, election, feminism, Gender Wage Gap, identity politics, maternity leave, Politics, public discourse, stereotypes
Robert Higgs | Wednesday November 30, 2016 at 9:22 AM PDT | Comments Off on Ideology, Identity Politics, and Politico-Cultural Conflict
The past year’s political events, especially the campaign for the presidency as it converged on a contest between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, have illuminated the way in which ideology, with the identity politics that springs from it, drives a dialectical process: political domination creates resentment, which feeds reaction and, on occasion, revolution against...
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Tags: culture wars, deplorables, Donald Trump, election, Hillary Clinton, PC, political correctness, progressivism, Safe spaces, speech codes
Robert Higgs | Wednesday November 9, 2016 at 4:44 PM PDT | Comments Off on Is a Trump Revolution in the Offing?
I have now demonstrated to my complete satisfaction that as a political prognosticator I am a total bust. Not that I put much effort into trying, to be sure, but I certainly developed firm ideas as the politicking proceeded over the past year or more. When Donald Trump first appeared on the horizon as...
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Abigail R. Hall | Thursday September 29, 2016 at 3:22 PM PDT | Comments Off on Both Presidential Candidates Fail Econ 101
This week we saw the first presidential debate between Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump. Despite knowing better, I watched the whole thing. For over 90 minutes I watched as the two candidates went back and forth, offering generic, unclear policy prescriptions, took jabs at one another, and offered unnecessary personal...
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Randall Holcombe | Tuesday October 19, 2010 at 9:00 AM PDT | 4 Comments
One of the features of secret ballot elections is that they make it difficult for voters to sell their votes. Even if a voter wants to, and finds a willing buyer, the secret ballot means the voter cannot offer any proof that the voter actually voted the way the vote buyer wanted. Absentee ballots...
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Tags: absentee voting, campaign contribution, democracy, election, Elections, Integrity, Politics, representative, secret ballot, senator, The State
Robert Higgs | Saturday May 8, 2010 at 10:09 AM PDT | 22 Comments
X : I will serve the people of this district to the best of my ability. Y: I intend to look out for my own interest every step of the way, so unless you’re the highest bidder for my services, you’d better start saying your prayers now. * * * X: The people have...
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Tags: democracy, election, Elections, Government subsidies, hypocrisy, Law, Morality, politician, Politics, Power, Propaganda, Taxation, The State, Transparency