A proper solution to the taxicab crisis is not to co-opt the movement of gypsy cab drivers by the offer to take them into the system, but rather to destroy the system of restrictive cab licenses, writes Walter Block.

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It should come as a monumental embarrassment to future social scientists to observe that their mainstream predecessors were worse than useless for predicting and remedying the disaster, writes Mark R. Crovelli.

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The job applications pour in by the buckets, all padded with degrees and made to look as impressive as possible. It's all just paper. But experience and reputation are gold, writes Jeffrey A. Tucker.

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With so many state governments' budgets now under severe strain, there are serious discussions about how to cut state funding to public education. Hopefully, the schools themselves will become only a memory of a less-enlightened past, writes Gennady Stolyarov II.

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A satisfactory explanation of business fluctuations must not be built upon the fact that individual firms make bad investments. Trade-cycle theory must explain the general upswing of business activities and the following general depression, writes Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973).

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Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal de Richelieu (1585–1642), considered the mass of Frenchmen simply as animals to be prodded or coerced in ways that were optimal for the French state, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995).

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The owner of ghetto housing differs little from any other purveyor of low-cost merchandise, writes Walter Block.

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The beginning of a new credit expansion runs across remainders of preceding malinvestment and malemployment, not yet obliterated in the course of the readjustment process, and seemingly remedies the faults involved. In fact, however, this is merely an interruption, writes Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973).

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If monopoly companies for specific products or specific areas of trade were good, reasoned François du Noyer, sieur de Saint-Martin, why not go one better? Why not one big company, one gigantic monopoly for virtually everything?

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There is as much work to be done as there are unfulfilled desires. Therefore, no matter how much work the rate buster completes, he cannot possibly exhaust or even make an appreciable dent in the amount of work to be done, writes Walter Block.

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