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ARE GOVERNMENT REGULATORS MORE VIRTUOUS THAN EVERYONE ELSE? – Iv\u00e1n Carrino<\/a><\/h2>

Xo\u00e1n de Lugo<\/a><\/span><\/span>2017-04-30T11:53:29+02:00<\/span>January 12th, 2017<\/span>|<\/span><\/p>

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ARE GOVERNMENT REGULATORS MORE VIRTUOUS THAN EVERYONE ELSE? - Iv\u00e1n Carrino -\u00a0 \u00a0 In their new book, Phishing for Phools, Nobel-prize winning economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller use a behavioral economics approach to criticize the \u201cmanipulation and deception\u201d that can exist between businesses and consumers. \u00a0 According to Shiller, \u00a0[a] fundamental concept [...]<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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TEN FUNDAMENTAL LAWS OF ECONOMICS – Antony Mueller<\/a><\/h2>

Xo\u00e1n de Lugo<\/a><\/span><\/span>2017-04-30T11:53:29+02:00<\/span>January 9th, 2017<\/span>|<\/span><\/p>

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TEN FUNDAMENTAL LAWS OF ECONOMICS -Antony Mueller- \u00a0 \u00a0 In the midst of so many economic fallacies being repeatedly seemingly without end, it may be helpful to return to some of the most basic laws of economics. Here are ten of them that bear repeating again and again. Production precedes consumption. \u00a0 Although it [...]<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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December 2016<\/h3>
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THE SOVEREIGN INDIVIDUAL – Helio Beltr\u00e3o<\/a><\/h2>

Xo\u00e1n de Lugo<\/a><\/span><\/span>2017-04-30T11:53:30+02:00<\/span>December 15th, 2016<\/span>|<\/span><\/p>

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THE SOVEREIGN INDIVIDUAL \u00a0 \u00a0- Helio Beltr\u00e3o -\u00a0 [This Libertas Award acceptance speech was delivered at the XXIII Forum da Liberdade, in Porto Alegre, Brazil, on April 12, 2010.] \u00a0 \u00a0 President [Leonardo] Fra\u00e7\u00e3o, it is a pleasure to be here, at this XXIII Forum da Liberdade, whose theme is based on Ludwig [...]<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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THE VALUES OF CAPITALISM (II): IN PRAISE OF HARD WORK – Miguel Anxo Bastos Boubeta<\/a><\/h2>

Xo\u00e1n de Lugo<\/a><\/span><\/span>2017-04-30T11:53:30+02:00<\/span>December 12th, 2016<\/span>|<\/span><\/p>

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THE VALUES OF CAPITALISM (II): IN PRAISE OF HARD WORK \u00a0- Miguel Anxo Bastos Boubeta - \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Capitalism implies a work ethic and a positive vision thereof. Anticapitalists ideologies used to denigrate the values associated with work. Booklets such as The right to be lazy of Karl Marx\u2019s son-in-law, Paul Lafargue [...]<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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PUBLIC HEALTH CARE AND ECONOMIC CALCULATION – Ignacio Almar\u00e1<\/a><\/h2>

Xo\u00e1n de Lugo<\/a><\/span><\/span>2017-04-30T11:53:30+02:00<\/span>December 9th, 2016<\/span>|<\/span><\/p>

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PUBLIC HEALTH CARE AND ECONOMIC CALCULATION \u00a0 - Ignacio Almar\u00e1 -\u00a0 \u00a0 The economic crisis has reignited a controversial issue: the debate on budget cuts in health care. In Spain, this debate has filled the newspaper\u2019s headings for the last eight years. The most recent example could be the announcement made by the [...]<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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INNOVATION AND THE STATE – Oscar Rodr\u00edguez Carreiro<\/a><\/h2>

Xo\u00e1n de Lugo<\/a><\/span><\/span>2017-04-30T11:53:30+02:00<\/span>December 7th, 2016<\/span>|<\/span><\/p>

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\u00a0INNOVATION AND THE STATE - Oscar Rodr\u00edguez Carreiro -\u00a0 \u00a0 It is commonly believed that innovation is a key aspect of economic development that needs State support given some of its special characteristics (basically because it is said to be a public good affected by externalities), for instance in the form of subsidies [...]<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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AN UNINTENTIONAL HOMAGE TO DESPOTISM – Daniel Rodr\u00edguez Carreiro<\/a><\/h2>

Xo\u00e1n de Lugo<\/a><\/span><\/span>2017-04-30T11:53:30+02:00<\/span>December 5th, 2016<\/span>|<\/span><\/p>

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\u00a0AN UNINTENTIONAL HOMAGE TO DESPOTISM -Daniel Rodr\u00edguez Carreiro- \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Last April the news broke that the Austrian government was about to expropriate the building where Adolf Hitler was born with the objective of preventing it from becoming a pilgrimage site for Nazism supporters. All sale offers had been rejected as insufficient by [...]<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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November 2016<\/h3>
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THE FREE TRADE TRADITION IN GALICIA SEEN TROUGH THE AGRARIAN PRESS – Miriam Gonz\u00e1lez Francisco<\/a><\/h2>

Xo\u00e1n de Lugo<\/a><\/span><\/span>2017-04-30T11:53:30+02:00<\/span>November 24th, 2016<\/span>|<\/span><\/p>

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THE FREE TRADE TRADITION IN GALICIA SEEN TROUGH THE AGRARIAN PRESS - Miriam Gonz\u00e1lez Francisco - \u00a0\u00a0 They were strange times, times of decadence and exasperation, and also of \u201cDesastres\u201d when the 20th century arrived at the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula. Galicia had suffered from the agrarian crisis at the turn of the [...]<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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IS AN EDUCATIVE SYSTEM NECESSARY? – Miguel Alonso Davila<\/a><\/h2>

Xo\u00e1n de Lugo<\/a><\/span><\/span>2017-04-30T11:53:31+02:00<\/span>November 21st, 2016<\/span>|<\/span><\/p>

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IS AN EDUCATIVE SYSTEM NECESSARY?\u00a0 - Miguel Alonso Davila - \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 From time to time, the implementation of a new school curriculum gives rise to controversies in which we can find all kind of arguments and positions: the current school curriculum is obsolete because it was created to satisfy the demands of [...]<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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SOME ISSUES ABOUT ANARCHO-CAPITALISTS: A REPLY TO F. CAPELLA – Daniel R.Carreiro<\/a><\/h2>

Xo\u00e1n de Lugo<\/a><\/span><\/span>2017-04-30T11:53:31+02:00<\/span>November 9th, 2016<\/span>|<\/span><\/p>

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SOME ISSUES ABOUT ANARCHO-CAPITALISTS: A REPLY TO F. CAPELLA\u00a0 - Daniel R.Carreiro - \u00a0 Francisco Capella wrote recently an article entitled \u201cM\u00e1s problemas del anarcocapitalismo\u201d (More problems of anarcho-capitalism) after attending a debate between Ju\u00e1n Ram\u00f3n Rallo and Miguel Anxo Bastos. \u00a0 The article of Capella suffers from a certain vagueness about the [...]<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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THE WICKED MORALS OF PROVIDING CHARITY WITH OTHER PEOPLE\u2019S MONEY – Mar\u00eda Marty<\/a><\/h2>

Xo\u00e1n de Lugo<\/a><\/span><\/span>2017-04-30T11:53:31+02:00<\/span>November 7th, 2016<\/span>|<\/span><\/p>

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THE WICKED MORALS OF PROVIDING CHARITY WITH OTHER PEOPLE\u2019S MONEY\u00a0 - Mar\u00eda Marty -\u00a0 \u00a0 Imagine this scenario- you return home after a hard day of work, ready to enjoy a well-deserved rest and those nice things that you could buy with the money earned with your effort. After a while, you heard [...]<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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PRAXEOLOGY AND MEDICINE – Ignacio Almar\u00e1<\/a><\/h2>

Xo\u00e1n de Lugo<\/a><\/span><\/span>2017-04-30T11:53:31+02:00<\/span>October 31st, 2016<\/span>|<\/span><\/p>

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PRAXEOLOGY AND MEDICINE\u00a0 - Ignacio Almar\u00e1 -\u00a0 \u00a0 Essentially, medicine is about health and sickness. These seem simple enough concepts but, what do they really mean? If we ask a professional we might receive an ambiguous answer, which is understandable since consistent definitions of these terms are not even given at Medical Schools. [...]<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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THE IMMIGRATION PROBLEM – Miguel Alonso Davila<\/a><\/h2>

Xo\u00e1n de Lugo<\/a><\/span><\/span>2017-04-30T11:53:31+02:00<\/span>October 26th, 2016<\/span>|<\/span><\/p>

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THE IMMIGRATION PROBLEM - Miguel Alonso Davila -\u00a0 \u00a0 As is currently the case with the refugee crisis in Europe, every now and then news appears in the media reminding us of the large numbers of people crowded together at specific locations of our borders, close to them or at neighboring countries, from [...]<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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WHAT IS ANARCHO-CAPITALISM? – Daniel R.Carreiro<\/a><\/h2>

Daniel R. Carreiro<\/a><\/span><\/span>2017-04-30T11:53:31+02:00<\/span>October 21st, 2016<\/span>|<\/span><\/p>

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WHAT IS ANARCHO-CAPITALISM?\u00a0 - Daniel R.Carreiro -\u00a0 \u00a0 Someone forced to work for another person is a slave. His master may be kind, generous and even grant him a large number of goods and services, but that does not change the fact that the person forced to work is still under the yoke [...]<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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PRAXEOLOGY: THE METHOD OF THE AUSTRIAN SCHOOL – \u00d3scar R. Carreiro<\/a><\/h2>

Oscar R. Carreiro<\/a><\/span><\/span>2017-04-30T11:53:32+02:00<\/span>October 19th, 2016<\/span>|<\/span><\/p>

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PRAXEOLOGY: THE METHOD OF THE AUSTRIAN SCHOOL\u00a0 - \u00d3scar R. Carreiro - \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Praxeology is the distinctive method of the Austrian School of Economics. This term, first coined by Ludwig von Mises, means \u201cthe science of action\u201d. Praxeology takes as its starting-point the action axiom, which says, simply, that man acts. Acting [...]<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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THE VALUES OF CAPITALISM (I): THRIFT – Miguel Anxo Bastos Boubeta<\/a><\/h2>

Miguel Anxo Bastos<\/a><\/span><\/span>2017-04-30T11:53:32+02:00<\/span>October 17th, 2016<\/span>|<\/span><\/p>

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THE VALUES OF CAPITALISM (I): THRIFT - Miguel Anxo Bastos Boubeta - \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 It\u2019s a common belief that capitalism is an economic system which arises from, and at the same time foster, consumerist values. Nothing could be further from the truth. Capitalism, both for its origin as well as for its daily [...]<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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