Our Ancestors Escaped Crippling Poverty Because of Capitalism
Our Ancestors Escaped Crippling Poverty Because of Capitalism The free enterprise, or capitalist, system has done more to improve the […]
Yearly Archives: 2017
Your New Mailman Works for Amazon
Your New Mailman Works for Amazon There he was dropping off packages in the mail room. I picked up mine […]
Rich People Don’t Actually ‘Hide’ Their Money
Rich People Don’t Actually ‘Hide’ Their Money Why are Cubans so poor? They’ve done very well in the U.S., where […]
The Deep History of Taxation May Surprise You
Deep History of Taxation Two things in life are certain: death and taxes. So goes the saying. And yet despite […]
The 1950s Economic Golden Age Is a Myth
1950s Economic Golden Age Is a Myth In my decades of trying to educate policymakers about the downsides of class-warfare […]
In North Korea, Black Markets Are Saving Lives
Black Markets Are Saving Lives North Korea could, arguably, be considered the nation-state equivalent of a time-capsule; a society perpetually […]
Millennials Really Dig Bitcoin
Millennials Really Dig Bitcoin It’s become fashionable to malign millennials for killing everything from dinner dates to department stores. If […]
Education Is the State’s Greatest Tool for Propaganda
Education Is the State’s Greatest Tool for Propaganda In chapter 10 of The Road to Serfdom, Hayek describes how some […]
Fake News Is Still Free Speech
Fake News Free speech is one of the most settled principles of law and public policy, or so you might […]
Why Populists Love Big Government
Populists Love Big Government The rise of populist critique of the status quo in our time has multiple reasons – […]
Steve Bannon’s Populism Would Impoverish Working People
Populism I listened intently to the New York Times‘s interview with Steve Bannon, the nationalist man of mystery who might […]
Resolved: The Welfare State Should Be Abolished
Welfare State I was honored to be the guest speaker of the Yale University Political Union last week, addressing the […]
The Feds Should Leave Gambling Policy to the States
Gambling Policy In late 2011, the Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a memo in response to a federal court ruling […]
Wanting Something Doesn’t Make it a Human Right
Human Right Any observer of American politics must be struck by the ever-expanding roster of things people have asserted they […]
Free the Farms, Feed the Poor
Free the Farms, Feed the Poor When informed that the already starving French had run out of bread, Marie Antoinette […]
What Hayek Gets Wrong about a Universal Basic Income
Universal Basic Income Market advocates usually tend to reject any sort of system that seeks to rob from one individual […]