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
Situating Southern Influences in James M. Buchanan and Modern Public Choice Economics
A Carden, V Geloso, PW Magness
Standard of Living: Essays on Economics, History, and Religion in Honor of …, 2022
The History and Evolution of the North American Wildlife Conservation Model
RE Wright
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022
Framing affordable housing: an experimental test of changing attitudes
M Matheis, J Sorens
Housing Studies, 1-17, 2022
Decentralized Marketplaces with Privately Enforced Contracts: A Case Study of OpenBazaar.
PC Earle, M Gulker, EP Stringham
Journal of Private Enterprise 37 (4), 2022
How pronounced is the U-curve? Revisiting income inequality in the United States, 1917–60
VJ Geloso, P Magness, J Moore, P Schlosser
The Economic Journal 132 (647), 2366-2391, 2022
Changing Minds on Restrictive Zoning: How to Unclog America’s Home Supply
J Sorens
Manhattan Institute, Apr 1, 2022
Articles
Artificial Intelligence: Our Days (Probably) Aren’t Numbered
“Releasing labor from areas where machines have taken over has created many new possibilities.” ~Art Carden
More Human Capital Requires More Economic Freedom
“Freer economies are able to make human capital (and self-improvement) more enticing for workers.” ~Vincent Geloso
Break Out of Bad Therapy: Gen Z’s Road to Resilience
“A confused society cannot coalesce upon what a ‘fact’ even is, much less a vision of the common good.” ~Katelyn Shelton
Ten Lessons of the Economic Way of Thinking
“Humans do not obtain god-like knowledge, wisdom, or goodness by acting politically.” ~Donald J. Boudreaux
Free Market Electricity: A Primer
Free-market electricity rests on time-honored theoretical and evidential foundations. Yet the classical-liberal alternative to heavy-handed regulation has been ignored for more than a century.
How to Really End ESG
“It’s incumbent upon ESG critics to advocate an alternative vision, not merely to fall in line with convention.” ~Russell Greene