The Libertarian Party (US): a political party in the United States that promotes civil liberties, non-interventionism, laissez-faire capitalism, and limiting the size and scope of government. The party was conceived in August 1971 at meetings in the home of David F. Nolan in Westminster, Colorado, and was officially formed on December 11, 1971, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The organizers of the party drew inspiration from the works and […]
The social cost of the tax that pays for the subsidy is greater than the gain to the buyers, because the extra buyers are able to to buy it at less than the market price. A subsidy lets people buy stuff below the price that would be set in a market. In a free market, […]
[ Fred E. Foldvary, Dept. of Economics, Santa Clara University, and School of Management John F. Kennedy University, California. Bradley Fellow, Center for Study of Public Choice, 1989-91. ] In the Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy, James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock analyzed “the calculus of the rational individual when he is faced with questions […]
1. Planning as a Synonym for Socialism The term ‘planning’ is mostly used as a synonym for socialism, communism, and authoritarian and totalitarian economic management. Sometimes only the German pattern of socialism — Zwangswirtschaft — is called planning, while the term socialism proper is reserved for the Russian pattern of outright socialization and bureaucratic operation […]
Road to Serfdom, Friedrich Hayek, 1944 cartoon summary Contents Chapter I. The Abandoned Road Human will has made the world what it is — The individualistic basis of modem civilization — Liberalism not a stationary creed — But it has not been allowed to develop and was abandoned — Germany as the leader in […]
From Chico Enterprise Record 12/06/22 CHICO — Valley’s Edge, the largest development project Chico has seen, got a 5-2 recommendation last week from the planning commission and seems to be on its way to becoming a reality. The plan, which is about 14 years in the making, came from developer Bill Brouhard who began looking […]
Frederick Bastiat In the department of economy, an act, a habit, an institution, a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the first only is immediate; it manifests itself simultaneously with its cause — it is seen. The others unfold in succession — they are not seen: […]
Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co., 272 U.S. 365 (1926), more commonly Euclid v. Ambler, was a United States Supreme Court landmark case argued in 1926. It was the first significant case regarding the relatively new practice of zoning. The Supreme Court’s finding that local ordinance zoning was a valid exercise of the police power bolstered zoning in the United States and influenced other […]
From 1874 to 2006, the Surah Jute Mill was part of the sprawling network of jute production in Kolkata. Since then, it has been sitting vacant in an otherwise centric and lively neighborhood. With land being in high demand and low supply in the city, we view the site as an opportunity to provide […]
It is encouraging to see there is a growing awareness of the commons. This is partly through good historical research and partly through the pressing question of global warming. Research has shown how the commons have been eroded through land enclosure driving populations off the land into towns and cities, usually creating slums. Here the […]
From mises.org Seventy-five years ago, Henry George spelled out his “single tax” program Progress and Poverty, one of the best-selling economic works of all time. According to E.R. Pease, socialist historian and long-time secretary of the Fabian Society, this volume “beyond all question had more to do with the socialist revival of that period in England than […]
Libertarianism is the ethical proposition that all and only coercive harm is evil. Geoism (also called “Georgism” after Henry George) is the proposition that the rent of land should be either shared equally or used for public revenue. Geo-libertarianism combines these two philosophies into equal self-ownership and equal rights to the rent of natural resources. […]
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