In the healthcare industry, a certificate of need, also known by the acronym CON, is an anticompetitive licensing restriction allegedly designed to promote fair competition by requiring hospitals to demonstrate the need for certain projects and services in order to
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Will You Have a Second Child if Permitted?: China’s One-Child Policy 2.0
China’s one-child policy has been a controversial topic since its implementation. One major argument is that this policy will lead to a substantial decline in fertility rate over time. According to Bing Chen (2014), who cites from the 2011 China
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One More Step Towards a Market Economy: The Reform of China’s Household Registration System
On July 30, 2014, a piece of news regarding the reform of China’s Household Registration system (the hukou system) began to be circulated. This reform was officially confirmed by the state council of PRC earlier, and soon became a heated
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Intellectuals and Over-Parenting
Like many upper middle-class 20-somethings, I am the product of what has been disparagingly termed “helicopter parenting”. Although cosseting, over-concerned parents have long been a trope in modern society, only in Generation Y has it become the norm. Helicopter parents,
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About Those Monotonic Transformations…
If you have spent an egregious portion of your life in economics classrooms, you have doubtless heard that the utility functions used therein are representations of purely ordinal preference rankings. As your professors likely told you, although utility functions assign
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A Letter to the City of Oshawa
Mr. Major and all Council members of the City of Oshawa 50 Centre Street South Oshawa, Ontario L1H3Z7 Dear Madams/Sirs: I would like to comment on the ban the city of Oshawa is considering on sale of puppies and kittens
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Paul Cantor: Model Mentor
I once called Paul Cantor “the incomparable Cantor.” Another apt, alliterative sobriquet would have been “model mentor.” When others weren’t, Paul was there for me. He helped me. He taught me. He guided me. He’s the type of scholar I’d like
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Property Rights as Social Justice - from John Locke’s Perspective
John Locke holds that property rights are just. This conviction is implied in his notion that justice is of nothing but the preservation of the individual’s natural rights,[1] of which property rights are an essential component. It seems clear that,
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Sin City’s Darker Twin
As the camera zooms in on the dried monkey skeletons on display, a scowling vendor angrily waves it away, cursing in Mandarin. “Here, photography is not always welcome” says the narrator. This scene from The Mong Lah Connection took place
The Immunity Community
The doctrine of sovereign immunity derives from the English notion that “the king can do no wrong” and hence cannot be sued without his consent. The purpose of this doctrine was, in England, from at least the Middle Ages until
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The Empirical Nature of the Praxeological Method
The praxeological method has long been a category of Austrian economics that brings great interest to me. Originally, it was the “shiny” aspects of the school that drew me to Austrianism. Business cycle theory is just one such example. However,
The Lawyers’ Guild
Last month, thousands of recent law school graduates sat for a bar examination in their chosen state of practice. They were not undertaking a harmless rite of passage but overcoming a malicious obstacle: an artificial barrier to entry in the
Mises Canada’s Emerging Scholar Program
Do you like to write about the economy? Does central banking get you down? Do you have career ambitions in academia or finance? Do you like to write about economics? Then apply to Mises Canada’s Emerging Scholar Program! The Emerging
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