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SOPA, the NDAA, and Patent-Trolling: Why Americans Need a Civil Liberties Caucus

December 10, 2011Erik Kain

Nearly every elected official in Congress voted for the National Defense Authorization Act, a bill placing domestic terrorism investigations into the hands of the US Military. We need to elect more politicians willing to vote ‘Nay.’ Over on Google Plus, in a response to this very excellent post by Alex Tabbarok, Jim Henley writes: The […]

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No, the Crackdown Against Occupy Wall Street is Not the Work of the Shadowy Elite

November 26, 2011Erik Kain

Police action against Occupy protesters has been over the top, but that doesn’t mean that the government and economic elites are coordinating the crackdown. Much to the dismay of those of us who value civil liberties and the right to peaceful dissent, the nascent Occupy  movement has been met with violence at numerous protests around the […]

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Don’t Tax Black Friday

November 25, 2011Erik Kain

I suspect that at the heart of Robert Frank’s New York Times piece about ending the Black Friday madness rests two things: first, a sense that such overt consumerism is the hallmark of capitalism and that capitalism is somehow morally insufficient; and second, a distaste for the aesthetic of Black Friday – all those plebes […]

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Techonomy: Can Tech Optimism Go Too Far?

November 13, 2011Erik Kain

Panelists at Techonomy make their case for optimism and their enthusiasm is contagious, but human and institutional nature should make skeptics of us all. Capitalism and technology have lifted more people out of abject poverty than anything else in the history of human civilization. And technology is changing the world more rapidly now than ever […]

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Capitalism and Welfare

October 27, 2011Erik Kain

I think I’m probably equal parts liberal and libertarian – a sort of progressive libertarian or market liberal or something of that nature. On the one hand, I tend to agree with libertarians on markets, incentives, bailouts, and any number of other economic issues. On the other hand, I tend to think that many libertarians […]

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Free Markets and the Welfare State

October 3, 2011Erik Kain

A brief note – my broad sketch for an ideal society is something like this: A market free from the many mangled rules and regulations that pollute the American economy to the detriment of innovators and start-ups and to the benefit of the entrenched status quo. This is not to say that all regulations are […]

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