Interventionism

This situation is not, however, a natural market phenomenon, but the direct result of various government programs — usually in the world's most developed economies, although developing countries are catching up — that aim to promote more environmentally friendly energy technology or energy self-sufficiency by subsidizing and mandating the diversion of a growing percentage of agricultural commodities such as corn, sugar cane, wheat, and so on, to the production of bioethanol and biodiesel.

Public buildings in the United States are islands of socialism in a sea of free enterprise, so the materials and workers are there.

We can see the strength of the case for economic freedom even more clearly through proper economic theorizing. Free-market economists like Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises arrived at the proper conclusions regarding socialism and interventionism long before the evidence on modern state planning was in.

But defending property rights - the only basis on which society can possibly exist in peace - is a worthy cause, and there are not nearly enough people doing it.

How do you create back alley organ transplants?

A free society includes the freedom to be unconcerned, insensitive, or stingy. If the forced looting of the taxpayers for foreign-aid payments has always been wrong, then — cyclone or no cyclone — it is just as wrong now.

Ohio has effectively

Dr. Block and Dr. Jared Bernstein (Economic Policy Institute) debate the minimum wage on 8 March 2008.

...in Massachusetts during 1630-50.

In sum, the real cause of continually rising food prices is the printing of money by world governments. And the real cause of actual food shortages is the prevention of profitable global trade in food by the ill-advised policies of the governments of the very people who are starving.