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Economics of Prohibition by Mark Thornton

The Economics of Prohibition

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12/01/1991 Mark Thornton

It is conventional wisdom that alcohol prohibition failed, but the economic reasons for this failure have never been as extensively detailed or analyzed as they are in this study by Mark Thornton. The lessons he draws apply not only to the...

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The Soviet Medical Nightmare

Tags: Interventionism, Big Government, Health

08/01/1990 Yuri N. Maltsev

Government control takes freedom of choice away from the public and puts it in the hands of bureaucrats responsive only to their own interests and those of the state, instead of the buying public. Private enterprise in medical care means patient sovereignty. The Soviets ignored this principle, and the public is now paying for it with their health and lives.

Compulsory Medical Care and the Welfare State

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04/28/1950 Melchior Palyi

The doctrine of the Welfare State is being offered in the United States as a bright and shiny new.invention. It is being accepted by some on the assumption that it is a device with inherent capacity to solve the complicated problems of mankind,-...

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Mises U 2026

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Mises U 2025

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Mises U 2024

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The Cost of Covid

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Featuring Mark Thornton, Per Bylund, and special guest Todd Zywicki in Birmingham on Saturday, April 2, 2022.

Medical Freedom Summit 2023

Tags: Big Government, Bureaucracy and Regulation, Health, Cronyism and Corporatism

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While those that cheered for lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and the shutdown of the global economy retreat to the back pages of the news, the Wo

Mises U 2022

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2023 Supporters Summit

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Featuring Dr. Naomi Wolf, David Stockman, Guido Hülsmann, and more, at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, October 12-14, 2023.