What if New Coke Had Been a Government Program?
“Would our lives be better were land, labor, and capital still tied up making New Coke and Crystal Pepsi? People have voted pretty overwhelmingly and answered ‘no.'” ~ Art Carden
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On the Need to Theorize Carefully
“Theorizing usefully about trade and other economic phenomena isn’t especially difficult, but doing so does indeed require care, wisdom, and humility.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux
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Progressives Love Suppressing Votes–But Not the Way You Think
“Suppressing people’s votes in the marketplace for the benefit of those who think themselves entitled to a comfortable life at another’s expense, or for those who really know what is good for other people, does not help the suppressed voters.” ~ Art Carden
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Not Enough Pizza
“It’s hard not to be sad about the passing of old, personalistic cultural tropes. But entrepreneurs exploiting microphone technologies on digital platforms are going to wipe out most of them. And it’s just as well, because we could never make that much pizza.” ~ Michael C. Munger
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America’s at a Crossroads: Liberty or State Control? | Samuel Gregg & Kate Wand (Video)
“In this episode of Liberty Curious, Kate Wand sat down with Samuel Gregg, Distinguished Fellow in Political Economy and Senior Research Faculty at the American Institute for Economic Research, to discuss how to repair what’s broken with the American economy.” ~ AIER
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Reputation Works Better Than Regulation: Why Demand Should Determine Prices
“As consumers, we must remember that in a market-based system, consumers determine what is of value, what is demanded, and what is consumed. To maintain such authority, we would be wise to use our wallets, rather than Washington cronies, to curtail costs.” ~ Kimberlee Josephson
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Overcoming Challenges to Economic Freedom in States
“Until states decide to impose a strict spending limit based on a maximum rate of population growth plus inflation, cut and eliminate burdensome taxes, and scrap burdensome regulations, economic freedom will continue to collapse.” ~ Vance Ginn
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The Many Ways Bad Policy Worsens Your Daily Commute
“Removing sand from the country’s collective transportation gears will also require more imaginative solutions such as congestion pricing, privatization, zoning reforms, and transportation options beyond cars.” ~ Colin Grabow
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Communicating Economics to Young People
“Among the most satisfying of my professional duties as an economics educator is communicating, mostly by email, with students from around the country, and sometimes from abroad, about economics and liberalism.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux
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Economic Freedom Matters for Intergenerational Income Mobility
“The underappreciated role of economic freedom and institutions in the determination of intergenerational income mobility is probably one of the most problematic omissions of the literature on income mobility. ” ~ Vincent Geloso
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Do Our Roads Have to be Built by Government?
“Roads don’t have to be built by government, and we would be better off if we had left it to private enterprise and voluntary cooperation.” ~ George Leef
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Henry Clay’s “American System” Is Bad News for the American Economy
“The American System’s modern rehabilitators conveniently leave out the fact that every time it was tried in the 19th and early 20th centuries, Clay’s program unleashed a torrent of preventable policy disasters.” ~ Phillip W. Magness & James R. Harrigan
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