Menu
The Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, fell short of its main objectives. The goal of Obamacare was to expand access to health care and to reduce costs.It failed because it attempted to force transactions that would not happen in a free mark …
READ MORE
Continuing the legacy of AIER’s founder, Col. E.C. Harwood, we are building collaborative partnerships with colleges and universities across the country.
READ MOREApparently, someone should share the writings of AIER founder E.C. Harwood with Pope Francis. In a recent address, the pope criticized libertarianism as being “selfish” and “antisocial.” This unfounded characterization of free market beliefs is nothing …
READ MORERecently on the blog, I discussed New York’s Excelsior Scholarship, which offers free tuition to New York residents to attend four-year public state universities. Today, I want to take a closer look at prices currently paid by students to see how the p …
READ MOREBack in March, President Trump and Speaker Ryan failed to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare. The GOP bill was called the American Health Care Act. The bill failed because members of the House’s Freedom Caucus refu …
READ MORE
In my previous blog, I described how teachers are overwhelmingly satisfied with the field test of the lesson ideas they develop at the AIER’s Teach-the-Teachers Workshop. Today, I would like to share my analysis of students’ evaluations of the implemented lessons.
READ MOREHow much is unlimited data on your iPhone worth to you? In calculating the Consumer Price Index, the average answer is “a lot” — enough to explain a perceived slowdown in inflation, in fact. As other outlets have reported recently, a change in cell ser …
READ MOREEarlier this week, President Trump released his proposed budget for 2018. The budget is ambitiously titled “A New Foundation for American Greatness.” The White House forecasts that the new budget would eliminate the federal deficit in 10 years. Preside …
READ MORE
As AIER founder Colonel E. C. Harwood was a fan of John Dewey’s constructivist approach, I decided to reflect on how our education programming continues to be grounded in real experience.
READ MOREWhile the institute has evolved with changing times and technology, there are certain bedrock principles on which we rest that date as far back as our founding by Colonel E.C. Harwood in 1933.
READ MORENew York recently announced the Excelsior Scholarship, a program that will make tuition to New York public colleges free for New York residents. We have many reasons to doubt the efficiency of this plan, as argued for example by David Brooks in the New …
READ MORE
A new report on debt and credit shows that in the first quarter of 2017, household debt just surpassed the previous peak of $12.7 trillion, seen during the Great Recession. Rising debt levels may become a problem. From the first quarter of 2009 to mid- …
READ MORE
250 Division Street | PO Box 1000
Great Barrington, MA 01230-1000
Press and other media outlets contact
888-528-1216
press@aier.org
AIS is a fully owned subsidiary of AIER
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License,
except where copyright is otherwise reserved.
© 2021 American Institute for Economic Research
Privacy Policy
AIER is a 501(c)(3) Nonprofit
registered in the US under EIN: 04-2121305
