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| Booze Busting: The New Prohibition, by James Bovard, Freedom Daily, Dec 1998 |
 Prohibition Hasn't Ended Yet, by Lawrence Reed, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, Jul 2001 |
| Thoughts on Freedom - Politics and Prohibition, by Donald J. Boudreaux, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, Mar 2002 |
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We Aren't Children, by Sheldon Richman, Nov 2001
Related Topic: Arkansas
"This is the phenomenon that economist Bruce Yandle calls 'Baptists and bootleggers.' It refers to the alliance inevitably struck between those who oppose some consensual activity for moralistic reasons and those who oppose it out of economic interest. Thus both the Baptists and the bootleggers favored Prohibition ..." |
America's Most Persecuted Minority, by Murray N. Rothbard, The Irrepressible Rothbard, 1994
Related Topics: Moral Repression, Compulsory Education, Woodrow Wilson
"The high-water mark of PMEP crusading was ... the outlawing of all liquor (and by constitutional amendment, no less!). The result used to be common knowledge in America; absolute disaster: tyranny, corruption, black markets and more alcoholism as people went underground to get more intense 'fixes' such as hard liquor rather than beer before the cops could close in." |
Drug Legalization: How to Radically Lower the Number of Murders in New Orleans, by Walter Block, 27 Jan 2007
Related Topics: War on Drugs, Louisiana
"When alcohol was prohibited (1920-1933) gangs fought it out in the streets with machine guns for the right to sell their bathtub gin. Innocent bystanders were killed in the cross fire ... Nowadays ... Johnny Walker and Four Roses compete with each other not with bullets, but in terms of the traditional commercial aspects of price, advertising, availability, quality, reputation, etc." |
The Progressive Era, Part 1: The Myth and the Reality, by William L. Anderson, Freedom Daily, Feb 2006
Related Topics: Constitution of the United States, American War Between the States, Compulsory Education, Woodrow Wilson
"Prohibition was the shotgun wedding of the secular Progressives and the Christian fundamentalists, both of whom wanted to ban intoxicating beverages ... Progressives saw it as a way to promote ... 'social virtues,' while fundamentalists thought that alcohol consumption was sinful, which was reason enough for the central government to ban it." |
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The Economics of Prohibition
by Mark Thornton, Nov 1991 |
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