Economics and Economic Freedom
A free and prosperous society requires a functioning market economy at its foundation. Using a broad array of tools drawn from price theory, public choice analysis, Austrian theory, and classical empiricism, our study of economics and economic freedom explores the underpinnings of the market system, the roots of economic prosperity, and emerging threats to the same in the public policy sphere. Our work includes the measurement of freedom and providing practical economic information for people to make better decisions.
Research Publications for Economics and Economic Freedom
Gordon Tullock and the Economics of Slavery
P Magness, A Carden, I Murtazashvili
Available at SSRN 4318585, 2023
J Sorens
Publius: The Journal of Federalism 53 (1), 55-81, 2023
General Institutional Considerations of Blockchain and Emerging Applications
PC Earle, DM Waugh
The Emerald Handbook on Cryptoassets: Investment Opportunities and …, 2023
J Enninga, RM Yonk
Sustainability 15 (8), 6396, 2023
The History and Evolution of the North American Wildlife Conservation Model
RE Wright
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022
Changing Minds on Restrictive Zoning: How to Unclog America’s Home Supply
J Sorens
Manhattan Institute, Apr 1, 2022
Articles
Identity Politics and Systemic Racism Theory as the New Marxo-Nazism
“The new Marxo-Nazism of identity politics and systemic racism theory would turn back the clock and return us to a time and type of society that America and Americans have worked so hard to place in the past of human history.” ~ Richard M. Ebeling
AIER Leading Indicators Drop Sharply but Remain Above Neutral
“AIER’s Leading Indicators Index posted a sharp decline in August, falling to 58. Five consecutive pullbacks suggest that breadth of growth is likely to narrow in the future. Furthermore, resurging Covid is impacting consumers and threatening the outlook. Caution is warranted.” – Robert Hughes
Military Equipment and the Labor Theory of Value
“Ludwig von Mises once joked that only the government could take a useful commodity like paper, slap some ink on it, and make it worthless. We appear to have a similar problem with military equipment.” ~ Clifford F. Theis
Remembering the Truly Forgotten, Twenty Years Later
“On the 20th anniversary of September 11, 2001, more will be said about military service dogs than the thousands of hardworking, productive people killed in downtown Manhattan that day. But money and finance are the font of modernity and the wellspring of American prosperity.” ~ Peter C. Earle
When Grand Histories Go Wrong
“Coggan embarked on an ambitious scheme to tell us about economic growth through the ages. In that he succeeds, but the account leaves much else to be desired.” ~ Joakim Book
America’s Medici Moment?
“And thus corporations are led, by an invisible hand, to promote an end which was no part of their intention, the simultaneous enrichment of themselves and empowerment of party partisans.” ~ Robert E. Wright