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The contemporary American city serves as evidence of government failure and as a focal point for crisismongering. In … city is most responsive to human aspirations when government is least intrusive. At no point do I argue that the market …, though I do favor drastically diminished government interven- tion in the cities, both to improve the potential for economic …
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of exchange are not determined by buyers and sellers, however, but by the government or a legislature, then the assurance … of mutual advantage breaks down. Indeed, if the government sets the terms of exchange (by price fixing, for instance …
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The end ofWorld War II marked the birth of the modern chemical industry. From that time synthetic rubbers, fibers, and complex organohalogens have been produced in large commercial quan- tities, such that each member of modern society is exposed to chemicals of exotic physiocheniical activity....
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20 years, what had been a classic division of functions between the Federal Government and the States and localities has … become a confused mess. Traditional understandings about the roles of each level of government have been violated." The … source of the problem has been the intrusion of the federal government into many state and local matters with a consequent …
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In this paper I will focus on risk controversies of a familiar type: Someone in one locale is concerned about being seriously injured as a result of human activities carried on elsewhere. The discussion will be limited to risks that are unintentional in the sense that no one is deliberately...
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Ihe essence of taxation, seen from the point of view of the tax- payer, is the forcible confiscation of resources. This includes, but is not restricted to, the flow of tax dollars. The analysis presented here explores this fundamental concept of taxation and its relation- ship to the operation...
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T0 the practical mind, particularly one trained in economics, it might sound a trifle paradoxical to suggest that the truly important issues in a public policy debate have nothing to do with the relative efficacy of the policy options. Paradoxical or not, this is very often the case. And there...
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government handouts. Many people now believe, and act as if, everyone can live at the expense of everyone else. As government …
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It is commonly assumed that private property rights are incompati- ble with the preservation of such environmental and recreational amenities as our national parks and that governmental ownership is therefore required. This paper takes a different approach and ar- gues that private alternatives...
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By 1820, as Sydney Smith argued, the English believed that they were a heavily taxed people. There had been a large increase in tax- ation during the wars with France, and amassive increase in public debt, and the subject of taxation was regularly debated in Parlia- ment and vigorously disputed...
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