Topic: Economic Education

The Pilgrims Tried Socialism and It Failed

– January 5, 2022

“At a time when too many in the United States are insisting on a massive turn toward more government, we need to harken back to the harsh and sometimes horrible lessons learned from past attempts to impose socialist systems on society.” ~ Richard M. Ebeling

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The Impact of Higher Inflation on US Asset Class Returns

– January 4, 2022

“If the Fed is to be a mere BoJ copycat, does that mean that it can keep US equities artificially elevated by a perpetually low policy rate? No more than the BoJ has been able to do for Japanese equities.” ~ Richard M. Salsman

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Encountering Thomas Sowell

– January 3, 2022

“If we are lucky, this documentary and Riley’s biography will be part of the necessary and overdue work of rectifying the oversight. I suppose I owe my aunt an apology.” ~ Thomas Chatterton Williams

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Founding Economics and American Conservatism’s Future

– January 2, 2022

“The significance of the economic fight on the right goes far beyond the world of supply and demand. It provides us with glimpses into very different possibilities for conservative thought and politics in America.” ~ Samuel Gregg

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Speculations on Origins and Endings: An Essay on The Essential UCLA School of Economics

– January 1, 2022

“The best thing about David Henderson and Steven Globerman’s book (even better than the fact that it’s well-written, interesting, and offered at zero price) is the way it connects research that came out of UCLA to broader ideas.” ~ Michael L. Davis

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Winning Freedom Requires Some Radical Solutions

– December 29, 2021

“Unless there are voices unafraid to present clearly and persuasively the principled and uncompromising case for a truly free society, the goal of liberty may never be established.” ~ Richard M. Ebeling

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Smithian and Anti-Smithian Economists

– December 29, 2021

“Smithian economists make their livings by exposing the many economic fallacies embraced by the man-in-the-street and peddled by vote-hungry politicians and click-crazy pundits. These economists will never want for work.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux

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A Perfect Storm of Incentives

– December 28, 2021

“As Omicron looms, and as surely as Pi, Rho, and Sigma will follow, voters should meet their fears with reason, view the media with a skeptical eye, and demand that politicians discuss tradeoffs openly and honestly.” ~ Antony Davies

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Individualism Rightly Understood

– December 28, 2021

“Mises’ central moral claim is that the public welfare cannot be respected without a methodology that respects all as individuals, and that socialism will inevitably destroy the individual.” ~ Garreth Bloor

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Paul Volcker, the Fed, and ‘Tight Credit.’ The Myth That Won’t Die.

– December 27, 2021

“It’s no surprise that economic types want to believe all good things run through central planners, but readers of political and economic commentary would be wise to be skeptical. The Fed’s power is well overstated.” ~ John Tamny

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Remembering the Soviet Nightmare that Ended Thirty Years Ago

– December 24, 2021

“It is crucial for the history of socialism-in-practice not to be forgotten and for it to be known to a new generation who have been fortunate enough not to live under its terrible reality of terror, tyranny, and social disaster. Otherwise, history may tragically repeat itself.” ~ Richard M. Ebeling

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Paul Heyne and the Trouble with Economists

– December 23, 2021

“Economics is often a morality-free zone, and Paul Heyne shows why this is a mistake. In many ways, Heyne can be read as a plea to return to the oft-forgotten first half of Adam Smith.” ~ Nikolai G. Wenzel

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