How to Ask for a Raise
If you want to renegotiate and ask for different terms, that should be seen as just doing business. If it works, great. If it does not, you have to choose whether to stay.
READ MOREWe Need More Free-Market Experiments Now
An idea to disrupt cloistered markets, ideologically-induced psychological barriers, and suboptimal policies through radical innovation.
READ MOREThe Solution to Blackouts and Wildfires in California
It is time to liberate electric utility customers and bring innovation back to the once innovative electric utility industry that was pioneered by great inventors and businessmen such as Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse.
READ MOREWhy Women Workers Might Be Less Willing to Delegate
People love demographic generalization of the workplace because they simplify what is actually incomprehensibly complex. So the newest study of professional women was destined to go viral: “Women Are Less Likely to Delegate Than Men—and That Might Hurt …
READ MOREHow the WeWork Mess Proves that Markets Work
WeWork is one of the most high profile examples of a once high-flying organization that was first humbled, and then dragged back to earth due to internal issues that eventually came to light.
READ MOREMassachusetts’ Addiction to Regulation Keeps Most Pot Sales on the Black Market
Massachusetts has not legalized cannabis products so much as entered the drug market via a handful of chosen franchisees, with the extra competitive advantage that you could be fined or jailed if you buy from the competition. Let freedom ring.
READ MORESocial Media’s Bumpy Ride to Better Ideas
Social media is a dynamic evolutionary process that can lead to better ideas, but the path often isn’t pretty.
READ MOREA Job Is Not Alienating; It Is Empowering
Beware: every theory that posits that your job is alienating is a ruse to draft you into a new form of collective identity in which you will have fewer choices.
READ MOREAn Answer to That Viral Equality Meme
Free market capitalism naturally seeks ways to be inclusive by trying to attract a wider consumer base.
READ MOREIs There a Science of Progress?
Even if it proves to be an inexact science, the effort is worth undertaking.
READ MOREThe FTC’s Strategy Against Facebook is Bad Economics
The theory that Facebook acquired Instagram and WhatsApp primarily to squelch future competition represents a view of antitrust that is simplistic and naive. It also endangers a startup business model that has produced incalculable benefits through innovation.
READ MORESometimes Helping People Is the Worst Thing You Can Do
The approach of unconditional help regardless of the results doesn’t work in our private lives. How much worse is it when taxpayers are paying the bill?
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