In the analysis of socioeconomic affairs of the United States, the value of family structure is perhaps too sensitive and close to home for many pundits and policy researchers to bring up.
READ MOREOne of the operating principles of AIER is to produce useful, practical, and actionable information. Therefore, the main goal of the Teach-the-Teachers Initiative is to educate K-12 teachers about the essence and application to everyday life of the concepts of money, inflation, business cycles, unemployment, and property rights.
READ MOREThe official US national debt has surpassed $20 trillion, not that any of us can imagine such an enormous sum of money, nor does that number include the greater level of unfunded liabilities.
READ MOREIt’s been more than a decade since Katrina, and New Orleans is still rebuilding after more than 80 percent of the city was submerged.
READ MOREThe dream of a workers paradise in Venezuela, based on the 21st-century socialism of Hugo Chávez, has long since come and gone.
READ MOREThe sharing economy, at least in its most currently successful applications, has nothing to do with sharing at all.
READ MOREContinuing AIER’s innovative approach to bridging the gap between students’ academic training and skills demanded in the workplace, we started a remote applied-economic-research course with Missouri University of Science and Technology last week.
READ MOREInnovative business models allow resource allocation to respond to the spontaneity of the human mind, which craves freedom and personal and economic well-being.
READ MOREIf free trade translates to regulations for gender, indigenous groups, and climate change, you might be in Canada.
READ MOREAs AIER’s Teach-the-Teachers program continues to impact teachers and students around the country, it is satisfying to realize that our approach follows the highest echelons of economic education.
READ MOREAIER’s economics-across-the-curriculum approach is designed to encourage the infusion of economic concepts into various disciplines and across instructional levels. In 2017 our program attracted a diverse group of participants from middle school to college who are teaching a variety of subjects.
READ MOREAIER’s 2017 Summer Fellowship Program comes to a close today. As students are departing, we are reflecting on continued legacy of our founder, Col. E.C. Harwood, who advocated “efforts to promote independent scientific inquiry and education.”
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