The East German Trabant: same plastic body and two-stroke engine from 1957 to 1991. Citizens waited 10+ years for this "car" that produced more pollution than a modern truck. No innovation, no improvement, no choice.
The free market produces Teslas that can literally drive
England's insane window tax of 1696 gives us a preserved specimen of government logic: tax something visible, watch people wall it up, then call the resulting darkness a private choice.
William III needed money. His solution was a property levy scaled to the number of windows in
Canada runs a cartel, and citizens pay for it every time they buy a litre of milk.
The milk supply management system, built through the Agricultural Products Marketing Act of 1972, hands dairy farmers government-issued production quotas. These quotas restrict how much milk
Carl Menger published *Grundsätze der Volkswirtschaftslehre* in 1871, and the economics profession has never fully recovered from ignoring it.
Menger didn't tinker at the margins of classical economics. He demolished the labor theory of value that had infected economic thought
