D.W. MacKenzie Archive
October 2, 2009 8:05 AM
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D.W. MacKenzie
Will increased government involvement in the healthcare industry cause more or less corporate lobbying? Both mandated-private and single-payer, nonprofit insurance proposals will likely increase wasteful lobbying. FULL ARTICLE
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May 28, 2009 7:38 AM
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D.W. MacKenzie
According to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Federal Reserve policy was "too loose for too long." Some of us see Geithner's remark as both a mea culpa on the part of the federal government and a confirmation of Austrian business-cycle theory. A more general examination of Geithner's remarks on the subprime boom and bust, however, reveals the influence of Keynes, rather than Hayek. FULL ARTICLE
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May 6, 2009 7:56 AM
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D.W. MacKenzie
The US government will swap debt for equity and take at least half ownership in GM. This amounts to socialization of a large part of the domestic means for automobile production. The UAW will swap debt for equity to cancel out the debt "owed" by GM to a union-run trust. Worker ownership of 39% of this company is syndicalism, plain and simple. FULL ARTICLE
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The Case against "Smart Taxes" on Carbon
2009.04.22
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False Hopes for Tax Relief and Fiscal Stimulus
2009.01.28
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Professor Samuelson on Income and Tolerance
2008.12.30
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Liquidity Traps versus Inflation Traps
2008.12.23
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Oblivious Economists and Entrepreneurship
2008.12.11
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Why We Should Worry about Deflation
2008.12.02
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Posner and Leviathan
2008.11.24
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The Meaning of Competition in the Credit Default Swap Market
2008.11.17
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Yet Another Boom?
2008.10.29
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Has Libertarianism Ended?
2008.10.29
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A Move towards Market Socialism
2008.10.22
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Think Locally, Act Globally
2008.10.16
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To think, these people want us to let them rule us
2008.10.09
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Too Tasty to Fail
2008.10.01
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Wrong Lessons from Professor Stiglitz
2008.09.18
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China and the Development Myth
2008.05.22
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The Relentless Process of Socializing Health Care
2008.05.01
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The Flat Tax: Too Little Too Soon.
2008.04.15
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The Growth Effects of Federal Regulation
2007.08.03
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Are Stock Markets a Swindle?
2007.07.24
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What If Social Security Were Completely scrapped?
2007.06.18
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Minimum Wage Laws: Economics versus Ideology
2007.06.14
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Tyler's Paradox
2007.03.19
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Bureaucrats: Another Breed of Cat
2007.01.18
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Milton Friedman's Contribution
2006.11.16
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The Economics of Groundhog Day
2006.08.30
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The Myth of Functional Finance: Mises vs. Lerner
2006.05.23
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The Free Market in Hong Kong
2006.05.03
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Mythology of the Minimum Wage
2006.05.03
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On Krugman's Introduction to Keynes's General Theory
2006.03.09
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Is Crime Prevention Wasteful? Should It Be Taxed?
2005.11.22
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Time Preference Confirmed
2005.03.11
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Power By Any Other Name
2005.02.04
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Taxes, Waste, and Liberty
2004.07.27
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The Austrian Threat to Poland?
2004.07.01
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