Economics
Cure for Cancer
To: Professor Don Boudreaux, George Mason University From: Patrick Barron Date: July 21, 2024 Dear Don, I read your latest Café Hayek post “On Making the Case for Free Trade” in which you respond [more…]
Patrick Barron
Economics
Let’s stop kidding ourselves
Columnists write glibly about the “cost-of-living crisis” as if it were an affliction visited upon our unsuspecting community and that, as usual, it is the duty of government to cure it. The fact that the [more…]
Economics
Thinking Properly About Public Welfare
The debate over publicly funded welfare can be solved very quickly. There is constant demand for more welfare: more money for longer periods of time for those out of work, more money for the handicapped [more…]
Business
The Case for Abolishing Regulatory Agencies
Regulatory agencies are not needed and actually retard whatever good they are suppose to prevent or mitigate. I’ll give just three quick examples. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) The underlying rationale for the CDC [more…]
Economics
The Welfare State Prolongs Recessions
Many economic pundits predict that the US and much of the world either is in a recession or about to enter one, depending upon one’s definition of the term “recession”. This brief essay is not [more…]
Business
Logic Prevents Bad and Unnecessary Regulation
Much onerous and harmful government regulation can be prevented by application of well-known and well-understood principles of logic. I will use the recent regulations placed upon Americans in response to the so-called pandemic. I refer [more…]
America
Violations of Nuremberg Code in Covid-19 Control Program
Introduction By Patrick Barron In keeping with the medical theme of the following essay by Dr. Nicholas Bednarski and Phil Duffy, their conclusion about damage done by the response by government, the media, and the drug [more…]
America
Violations of Nuremberg Code in Covid-19 Control Program
Introduction By Patrick Barron In keeping with the medical theme of the following essay by Dr. Nicholas Bednarski and Phil Duffy, their conclusion about damage done by the response by government, the media, and the drug [more…]
America
Violations of Nuremberg Code in Covid-19 Control Program
Introduction By Patrick Barron In keeping with the medical theme of the following essay by Dr. Nicholas Bednarski and Phil Duffy, their conclusion about damage done by the response by government, the media, and the drug [more…]