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The Housemaid's Secret (The Housemaid, #2)

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Flood (Flood, #1)

by Stephen Baxter

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The Right to Earn a Living: Economic Freedom and the Law by Timothy Sandefur

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When newcomers are not allowed to enter a marketplace, they are deprived of the opportunity to earn a living, and the general public is deprived of the competition that would decrease prices and increase the availability of goods and ...more

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“every government intervention in the marketplace tends to reduce wealth and the overall standard of living.”
― David Boaz, The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom

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“Economic freedom means that people are free to produce and to exchange with others.”
― David Boaz, The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom

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“Every state and national capitol should have a sign on the door: Stop me before I legislate again.”
― David Boaz, The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom

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“To hurt in any degree the interest of any one order of citizens, for no other purpose but to promote that of some other, is evidently contrary to that justice and equality of treatment which the sovereign owes to all the different orders of his subjects.”40 Changes”
― Timothy Sandefur, The Right to Earn a Living: Economic Freedom and the Law

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“3. We believe that people spend their own money more prudently than they spend other people’s money. So goods and services produced in the competitive marketplace are likely to be produced more efficiently and with more regard for real consumer demand than goods produced by government, and thus we should try to keep as many aspects of life as possible outside the control of government.”
― David Boaz, The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom

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