William Carden

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01/25/2012 Mises Wire William Carden

Local knowledge. They're being paid huge dollars. Context. Randomness. XKCD strip. Understanding social processes very broadly. Occupy Bourbon Street: redistribution.

On Julian Simon and the Julian Simon Club

12/09/2011 Mises Wire William Carden

I was glad to see Bryan Caplan take up my invitation to join the Julian Simon Club. Other members now include Stephen Miller, Don Boudreaux, Eli Dourado, Matt Zwolinski, and a few people commenting...

The Consequences of Minimum Wages

05/09/2011 Mises Wire William Carden

The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.

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