Donald J. Boudreaux

Coronavirus

Past Crises Have Ratcheted Up Leviathan. The COVID-19 Pandemic Will Too.

People sometimes regret actions taken hastily during a crisis but find reversing them diabolically difficult.

Robert Higgs and Donald J. Boudreaux | 5.1.2020 2:45 PM

Obamacare

What Would You Do to Improve Job Growth?

Reason asks economists, writers, and wonks for real ways to increase job growth

Robert Higgs, Deirdre McCloskey, Amity Shlaes, John Stossel, Donald J. Boudreaux, Bryan Caplan, Bruce Bartlett, Jeffrey Miron, John Berlau, Allan Meltzer, Ira Stoll, Walter Olson, Peter Schiff, Alex Tabarrok, Fred Smith, and Lucy Steigerwald | 8.12.2011 12:00 PM

Alcohol

The Politics of Prohibition

How government greed, not individual rights, ended America's ban on alcohol.

Donald J. Boudreaux | 7.31.2007 12:00 PM

Elbow Room for Ordinary Folks

Donald J. Boudreaux | 11.1.1989 12:00 PM

The Cost of Conscription

Besides being immoral, forcing people into military or national service is not cost-effective.

William Field and Donald J. Boudreaux | 8.1.1979 12:00 PM