Randall G. Holcombe | Friday August 3, 2018 at 10:51 AM PST
The real threat to free markets lies in the regulatory state.
Tags: Books, Business, Corruption, cronyism, Economics, Free Market, Liberty, Nanny State, Personal Liberty, Political Capitalism, Politics, public choice, Regulation, special interests, The State
Raymond J. March | Wednesday December 13, 2017 at 10:04 AM PST
On November 13, 2017, millions of Americans had high blood pressure for the first time. It wasn’t even Thanksgiving.
Tags: blood pressure, hypertension, Lobbying, public health, special interests
Robert Higgs | Wednesday July 19, 2017 at 4:37 PM PST
Public choice analysis shows, among many other things, that organized political interests will tend to dominate the political process at the expense of the unorganized members of society. This is not a claim that “the rich” will necessarily dominate “the poor” in the political process, although the rich obviously have an advantage in influencing...
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Tags: Democracy in Chains, James Buchanan, Nancy MacLean, Political Economy, public choice, Robert Higgs, special interests