Remember the Golden Age of Laissez-Faire, the grand epoch brought to a tragic end by the COVID-19 crisis, which laid bare its failures for all to see? Me neither. And yet the New Narrative is already being written. “The Era of Small Government Is Over,” writes Jamelle Bouie in the New York Times. US federal, state, and local government…
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We are delighted that our Research Fellow John C. Goodman, Research Editor Anthony Gregory, and Research Fellow Robert P. Murphy will be among the many speakers at the upcoming 2012 Freedom Fest in Las Vegas (July 11-14), and we invite you to visit with us at the Independent Institute’s booth at the conference. 10:55…
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I pose this question seriously, not as a physiologist, but as an economic historian. I am provoked to raise the question by an advertisement that Amazon sent me recently, calling my attention a book titled Can Capitalism Survive? Creative Destruction and the Future of the Global Economy. Seeing this sales pitch, my immediate reaction…
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