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I’m generally optimistic about the robustness of a free society – optimistic about its ability to withstand large measures of harmful and heavy-handed government intrusions. But that optimism is noticeably diminished whenever I read of plagues of bureaucrats swarming into the lives of innocent people – plagues such as that suffered by marine biologist Nancy Black and related here by George Will [2].
Here’s Richard Epstein on gun control [5]. (Note also the comment beneath his essay by Steve Stanek.)
My colleague Dick Wagner explores, with Steve Hanke as co-author, two systems of public finance [6].
David Henderson offers sound analysis of the economics and history of cronyism [7].
Here’s an ungated version [8] of a recent Asian Wall Street Journal essay by Barun Mitra [9] on reforming India’s institution for supplying electricity.
Ed Glaeser writes wisely in the Boston Globe about outsourcing [10]. (HT Jeff Jacoby)