Private Equity, Job Creation, and the Coming Presidential Election, Part II
This is a continuation of yesterday’s post, “Private Equity, Job Creation, and the Coming Presidential Election, Part I,” in which I used a sort of Rothbardian analysis to help revaluate what exactly a...
View ArticleThe Mass Production of Big Medicine
Atul Gawande has written an interesting and thought-provoking piece for the New Yorker on the cost-control potential of mass produced medicine. The piece, entitled “Big Med,” compares the growth of...
View ArticleEt Cetera – 8 August 2013
I’ve been inspired–by Bob Murphy’s “Potpourri” and Jonathan Finegold’s “Advocates of Reason”–to create my own running series of posts containing multiple pieces of random updates and information. The...
View ArticleDoes Medical Licensure Protect Patients or Physicians?
Uwe Reinhardt, a Princeton economist, takes the California Medical Association to task for opposing state bill S.B. 491. The bill would allow qualified nurse practitioners to offer primary services in...
View ArticleMilton Friedman Predicts the Rise of Bitcoin
I’ve seen this video making the rounds on Twitter and in the blogosphere recently: Of course, there’s been a lot of talk about Bitcoin in general. I’m no expert, and I’m not comfortable coming out one...
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