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Which book is it from? "I had forgotten that you are only a common boy. How should you understand the reasons of State? You must learn, child, that what would be wrong for you or for any of the common people is not wrong in a great Queen such as I. The weight of the world is on our shoulders."
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Un article de The Foundation for Economic Education Alors que la liberté progresse de façon remarquable dans le monde ces dernières années — depuis la chute de l’empire soviétique jusqu’à la montée des privatisations —, nous ne sommes toujours pas en manque d’étatistes aux desseins stupides et destructeurs. La meilleure explication sur les motivations de telles personnes à accéder au pouvoir passe par la lecture du chapitre 10 La sélection par en bas (« Why the Worst Get on Top » en version originale) extrait du chef d’œuvre de Friedrich Hayek, La route de la ser...
Many people think that a universal basic income (UBI) would be a good substitute for the welfare state. Under this proposal, each person resident in a country would receive a guaranteed income, sufficient to live at a modest level. People would get the money unconditionally. Unlike welfare payments, the UBI would not be lessened if people earned money in addition to the amount it provided, and, because it is not means tested—absolutely everyone gets it, even billionaires—it requires no complex bureaucracy to administer. The UBI would cost a great deal of money, but its defenders claim tha...
Cast your mind back to 1982 for a moment. Lt. Gov. Mario Cuomo was contesting for the Democratic nomination for governor against New York City mayor Edward Koch, a colorful figure with many sensible views acquired from experience. (He wrote an article for The Public Interest in 1980 explaining that having become mayor, he wished he'd voted against a number of laws that he supported in the U.S. House because