October 11, 2009
Britain's Central Planning Death Panels
October 11, 2009
Free Market M.D.
October 11, 2009
Economies of Scale in Compliance
October 11, 2009
Balan's Challenge
October 10, 2009
The Pleasure of Telling Others What to Do
October 10, 2009
Gonick the Great - and How He Could Have Been Greater
October 9, 2009
More Scott Sumner
October 9, 2009
Not From The Onion
October 9, 2009
Thoughts on a Second Stimulus
I wonder if, during the Prohibition, Tyler Cowen would have said Libertarians should just accept that Prohibition is here to stay and learn to accept package deals when they are package deals.
Prohibition was much looser than current marijuana restrictions: you could brew your own beer and wine legally (though I don't think you could sell it). Even when it comes to distilled spirits, prohibition was looser on a practical level: growing your own marijuana requires a large dedicated space for months of time, while I imagine bathtub gin required just a bathtub and a day or so.
First off, it wasn't legal to make one's own liqor. On hte subject of practicality, how practical was it? It was a complete failure in almost, if not all respects.