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Today, many species of plants and animals are threatened with extinction. It is widely believed that the main causes of this ecological tragedy are agricultural activities, construction and industrial pollutants. The facts say otherwise – the extinction of biological species is a natural process, not a new, anthropogenic phenomenon. Fossils show, for example, that most creatures that lived …

Eight years ago, Coca-Cola set a goal to return all of the water it uses in its products to nature by 2020. On August 24, 2015, the company announced that it had achieved its goal five years ahead of schedule. Unlike the environmental dramas we are bombarded with daily – resources are …

Douglas Rasmussen[1] It is often said that markets are guided “as if by an invisible hand” to create order and cooperation among people. Markets achieve this harmonious result through the motives and mutual interest of each person. But there is another, “older” method of organizing people, namely the way of building …

Exchange of experience, evaluation, socialization Like any other initiative in the free market, the methodology of private and home education does not lend itself to strict mathematical analysis. Different schools and families may use different ways to educate children, and the differences may be due to many reasons - from family and ...

Bozhidar Marinov The Market The difficulties for such an initiative, of course, will come primarily from the lack of funding. While the state education system can always rely on state funding from the budget at the expense of taxpayers, private programs will have to find alternative opportunities to establish themselves in the market and make a difference. …

Against the backdrop of debates about environmental protection, based on economic logic, we will present our view on the most effective way to utilize and protect nature in Bulgaria. Economic Calculation and Efficiency As Ludwig von Mises pointed out in his article Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth back in 1920 …

Art Carden Are the motives of those who defend the “free market” the same as those who support “corporations”? Libertarian economists find this question frustrating because our enthusiasm for free markets is often confused with enthusiasm for particular industries or corporate interests. But just because something …

Often in the public sphere, elected politicians become the center of attention, talking about the “fairness” of taxation. But is there justice when the net benefits for certain groups of individuals are created as a result of the forcible seizure of property from the rest of society? When support for poorer citizens goes through the imposition of …

Ivelina Petrova Often in the public sphere, elected politicians become the center of attention, talking about the “fairness” of taxation. But is there justice when the net benefits for certain groups of individuals are created as a result of the forcible seizure of property from other members of society? When support for poorer citizens goes through …

Every year at this time, students across America are taught the official story of Thanksgiving. Newspapers, radio, television, and magazines devote an enormous amount of time and space to the holiday. It's all quite colorful and fascinating. But it's also quite misleading. The official story has nothing to do with...