For many years, Chile was the exception in Latin America, with an unprecedented model of sustained economic development. Contrary to populism and demagoguery, the Chilean recipe for the last forty-five years was respect for private property and entrepreneurial freedom. Indeed, …
This week’s $66.61 grocery shopping trips
Want to see what we bought for this week’s $70 grocery budget? I’m currently challenging myself to stick with a $70 budget for our family (two adults, two teenagers, one preteen, and two babies*). This includes almost all of our
Dear Penny: Should We Pay Off $74K in Debt or Save More Money?
Dear Penny,
… My husband and I are seniors who are currently working full time outside L.A. We have one month’s savings and not much in retirement due to a move and one of us being unemployed for two and a
Justice and Property Rights: The Failure of Utilitarianism
[From Egalitarianism as a Revolt against Nature and Other Essays]
Until very recently, free-market economists paid little attention to the entities actually being exchanged on the very market they have advocated so strongly. Wrapped up in the workings and …
