Here's Don Boudreaux's latest in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. The Cafe Hayek post in which Don alerted his readers to the article was titled "Parliament of Pimps," a play on the 1992 P.J. O'Rourke Book Parliament of Whores and a great phrase for a musician looking for an album title.

Don argues that the pimp metaphor is more appropriate than the whore metaphor because while prostitutes (usually) trade their services voluntarily, the art of politics consists of "truck(ing) and barter(ing) with other people's property."