Regulation and Intervention | Interview with Steve Horwitz
Should governments regulate and intervene to correct "market failures?"
Steve Horwitz explains the dynamics of interventionism and the issues with regulating and intervening in the free market.
"What regulation and intervention do is prevent markets from discovering new ways of solving existing problems and new ways of solving new problems. When regulation erects barriers to entry or other kinds of limits on market behavior, it cuts short this discovery process, and that leads to inefficiency and waste of resources."
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On June 10, 2011 Lawrence Reed, President of the Foundation for Economic Education, lectured at the Freedom University: Austrian Economics Summer Seminar. In this video Dr. Reed discusses the Panic of 1893.
I this week's episode, Antony & James talk about alternative facts and how false, partisan data skews important discussions about public policy.
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In this webinar, Wayne Leighton and Edward Lopez talk about their book, "Liberty in Books: Madmen, Intellectuals, and Academic Scribblers". They argue that a crisis is neither necessary nor sufficient for meaningful political reform. Ideas have consequences only when the right conditions of time and place present themselves, and only when certain individuals -- we call them political entrepreneurs -- seize the opportunity.
Resolved: "Income inequality in a free market is natural and productive."
See Max Borders and Snehal Shingavi debate income inequality in FEE's Arena Debate series.
Max Borders is editor of The Freeman magazine and director of content for The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE). He is also author of "Superwealth: Why we should stop worrying about the gap between rich and poor." Snehal Shingavi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Texas/Austin
In this video from FEEs archive Professor Peter Lewin discusses Austrian Capital Theory with students attending a summer seminar in 2004. To watch this video uncut or to download the audio, go to http://ht.ly/1DBeJ.
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Leonard Read told the surprisingly complex story behind the everyday pencil. Your job is to tell the story of another object in the form of a video under 3 minutes long. Each video will be judged by how well the economic concepts in I, Pencil are applied to another everyday object.
For contest and submission rules, visit http://www.FEE.org/i-object
This contest was made possible by the generosity of the Ralph Smeed Foundation.