Donald J. Boudreaux
On Skepticism of Covid-19 Vaccines
“Vaccination against Covid is insisted upon with the same fervor that religious zealots exhibited centuries ago when insisting upon the truths of their particular dogmas. Sensible people are naturally suspicious of such dogmatism and will resist becoming its victims.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux
Complexity in the Service of Simplicity
“Competition both contributes to, and relies upon, the modern economy’s enormous and largely unseen complexity. The modern economy can well be described as ever-increasing complexity in the service of ever-more simplicity.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux
Simple
“Compared to the lives of our pre-industrial ancestors – and, in fact, compared even to the lives of our literal grandparents – each of our lives today is simple beyond the imagination of those who lived a few generations or more ago.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux
Walter E. Williams, One of a Kind
“A dedicated teacher and tireless defender of classical-liberal values, Walter’s vast body of work will not only continue to inspire those of us already in the liberal camp, but also to challenge those who as yet aren’t.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux
A Marvelous, Humanitarian Substance
“Adjustments of money prices are the easiest and most obvious way of causing each other to overlook goods’ and services’ non-monetary aspects that would otherwise reduce the amount of mutually advantageous exchange that occurs.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux
The Only ‘Antitrust’ Policy That’s Needed is Freedom of Entry
“Antitrust stymies the competitive process. It does so by substituting the meager knowledge and imaginations of economists, lawyers, courts, bureaucrats, and politicians for the actual, creative head-to-head competition that occurs within markets.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux
Smithian and Anti-Smithian Economists
“Smithian economists make their livings by exposing the many economic fallacies embraced by the man-in-the-street and peddled by vote-hungry politicians and click-crazy pundits. These economists will never want for work.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux
Trump, Covid, and Despotism
“Observing the expansion over the past two years of the biosecurity state, I detect enormous evil in what the vanguard of progressives incessantly works to do to liberal civilization.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux
On Hayek’s “Kinds of Order in Society,” Part II
“There are two kinds of order in society. It’s time we stopped glorifying and overestimating one, and ignoring the reality, or discounting the marvels, of the other.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux
On Hayek’s “Kinds of Order in Society,” Part I
“In ‘Kinds of Order in Society,’ Hayek identified two categorically different kinds of orders – ‘spontaneous orders’ and ‘organizations’ – that are both common and useful to humans.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux
