Donald J. Boudreaux

Unseen Victims of Government Policies

Compared to beneficiaries, the victims of government interventions are indeed typically more difficult to see — which is why good economists spend so much time and energy explaining the reality of these victims.

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This Silly Study on Trade Is Not from the Onion

The Coalition for a Prosperous America writes as if tariffs will miraculously cause the workers and resources necessary to perform all this new production to materialize out of thin air – a proposition that causes one to laugh as one does when reading The Onion.

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A Protectionist Is Someone Who…

A protectionist cannot adequately explain why each and every household in the world does not itself literally build its own home.

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