ARNOLD KLING
August 14, 2011
The Top Political Contributors
August 11, 2011
Gender and the New Commanding Heights
August 11, 2011
Jamie Galbraith Makes an Assumption
August 11, 2011
Macroeconometrics: The Science of Hubris
August 10, 2011
Real and Nominal Bond Yields
BRYAN CAPLAN
August 14, 2011
The Effect of Thumb Sucking on Income
August 12, 2011
The Voice of Cold, Hard Truth to All Would-Be Educators
August 12, 2011
Ability, Morality, and Prosperity: A Paper and a Report
August 11, 2011
The Theory of Time and Frittering
August 10, 2011
Male Variance and the Remnants of the Gender Gap
DAVID HENDERSON
August 9, 2011
Hayek in "Unbroken", Part Two
August 8, 2011
Hayek in "Unbroken"
August 5, 2011
James Bovard on the Peace Corps
August 4, 2011
Summers Way Off on FDR and 1941
August 3, 2011
The "Amazon" Tax
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I don't know if you're including retirement as part of leisure, but if so, then I disagree with Tyler that it will be inexpensive.
As you noted in the past, the "New Commanding Heights" are education, health care, and retirement, all of which are controlled heavily by the government. This bodes poorly for limited government and freedom. Add the recent events in the domestic auto industry, where investors saw their rights to claims on the assets of GM and Chrysler diminished, which consequently makes at least these two wards of the state, and things are not looking good in the limited government arena at all.
I believe people will learn that they don't need as much health care or education as they have been told they need. It'll be the demand-side version of Atlas shrugging.