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Tweet… is from page 4 of Alan Reynolds’s excellent 2006 book, Income and Wealth (original emphasis): The two young founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, quickly made something like $12...
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TweetMy intrepid Mercatus Center colleague Veronique de Rugy makes the ethical case for free markets and against nanny statism. A slice: In his book Permissionless Innovation, my colleague Adam Thierer...
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TweetMy intrepid Mercatus Center colleague Veronique de Rugy understandably cannot understand why Trump believes that NAFTA has bad connotations. A slice: NAFTA had a positive impact on the U.S....
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TweetMy intrepid Mercatus Center colleague Veronique de Rugy eloquently explains why the tragic murder of Mollie Tibbitts ought not be evidence in the case for reduced immigration into the United...
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TweetMy intrepid Mercatus Center colleague Veronique de Rugy applauds universal savings accounts. George Will rightly laments the cult of fragility on today’s college campuses. A slice: Explicit racism...
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TweetHere’s a letter to the Wall Street Journal: In “A Nobel Economics Prize for the Long Run” (Oct. 9) David Henderson does his usual excellent job of explaining the core contributions of the newly...
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TweetIn my latest column for AIER I riff on Nobel-laureate William Nordhaus’s 2004 paper on the widespread sharing of the benefits of market innovations. A slice: And yet Jeff Bezos is just one...
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TweetMy intrepid Mercatus Center colleague Veronique de Rugy is rightly pleased that one consequence of last-week’s midterm elections in the United States likely will be further legalization of...
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TweetIn the Wall Street Journal, Richard Epstein critically reviews Tim Wu’s new book on antitrust policy. A slice: As to the first, the protection [through antitrust enforcement] of the small...
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Quotation of the Day…
Tweet… is from page 81 of my colleague Tyler Cowen’s 2018 book, Stubborn Attachments: Our strongest obligations are to contribute to sustainable economic growth and to support the general spread of...
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TweetMy GMU Econ colleague Bryan Caplan confesses. Phil Magness busts the myth of spiraling economic inequality. Robert Samuelson explains again that there’s no truth to the widely accepted claim that...
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Tweet… is from page 37 of my colleague Tyler Cowen’s 2018 book, Stubborn Attachments: Although recent media coverage has focused almost exclusively on within-nation magnitudes, recent world history has...
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TweetMy intrepid Mercatus Center colleague Veronique de Rugy reacts to the reaction of the French against the costs of government-imposed environmentalism. A slice: The resistance comes from middle- to...
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TweetMy intrepid Mercatus Center colleague Veronique de Rugy discussed tariffs two weeks ago on Cavuto. While I believe that most of the trade ‘violations’ that Beijing commits are committed against...
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TweetIn my latest column for AIER I challenge the assertion – often made by people who know just enough economics to fool themselves and others into thinking that they actually know a great deal about...
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TweetIn a new paper, my Mercatus Center colleague Dan Griswold eloquently exposes the dangers of GOP proposals to give Trump more power to negotiate “reciprocal” tariff rates. Here’s the abstract of...
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TweetKevin Williamson gives two cheers to income differences. A slice: The American political scene does not look the way it does because American politics is dominated by billionaires. If the American...
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TweetMy intrepid Mercatus Center colleague Veronique de Rugy responds to Julius Krein’s criticism of her earlier essay on NAFTA. A slice: For those truly curious about what the broad and vast...
View ArticleA Noxious Mix of Economic Ignorance and Envy…
Tweet… fuels the passion to soak the rich. In my most-recent column for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, I take on what I believe to be the chief chunk of economic ignorance that fuels this destructive...
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TweetBob Higgs rightly laments the evils – from small to gigantic – done in the name of nationalism. A slice: Along with the demands for such government restriction and penalization of international...
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