Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
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The Centers for Disease Control reports that 645,000 Americans died from opioid overdoses from 1999 -2021. As the CDC points out, the problem has hit in three waves: a rise in prescription opioid overdose deaths starting in the late 1990s; a rise heroin overdose deaths starting in 2010; and what appears to be an ongoing…
Reminder of the Ongoing Opioid Epidemic
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Link to article: Some 28 shipments [of low-priced AIDS drugs] were diverted from African countries to Paris and Brussels, then moved to Antwerp, where the customs officers noticed something was amiss. The drugs then moved into the normal wholesale chain and were sold at European prices – up to £3.80 a tablet instead of the…
Price Discrimination saves lives: Glaxo’s AIDS drugs
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I just did a new podcast with Aaron Olson on the late great Thomas Szasz. Aaron is well-versed in my notorious article, “The Economics of Szasz: Preferences, Constraints, and Mental Illness… 166 more words
Szasz Podcast
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