marketfamleave

The Market Provides the Optimal Amount of Family Leave

– April 8, 2019

Why do some conservatives believe that family leave plan is necessary in the first place?

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repairphone

Do You Have a Right to Repair? Yes and No

– April 8, 2019

This is not the free market at work. It is government intervention that steals the language of market competition to invalidate property rights and contracts.

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goldenrule

The Golden Rule Requires Markets

– April 7, 2019

If we want to follow The real Golden Rule, and we should, we shouldn’t force people to make the exchanges they would otherwise refuse in absence of coercion.

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lyftuber

Why Uber’s Business Model May Not Be Viable

– April 1, 2019

The sharing economy, fueled by the internet’s capacity to match small buyers and sellers, looks like a revolutionary business model. But for this model to be sustained, there must be a reliable source of long-term profits.

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digitalworld

Wealth Has Never Been More Equal

– April 1, 2019

In terms of information access and the opportunity to learn and share knowledge, we’ve never been more rich and equal.

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hud

This Agency Might Wreck Internet Economics

– March 28, 2019

Social media companies like Facebook obviously want to comply with the law, but they would also like to stay in business. That business depends fundamentally on targeting based on some demographic grounds. If a consistent application of non-discrimination law means that advertising has to become completely random to be compliant, Internet economics will experience the fate of countless public housing units in the past: it will be completely demolished.

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beautifulmarkets

Kierkegaard’s Parable of Two Artists

– March 27, 2019

The very existence of wealth creation should fill us with awe, respect, and endless curiosity, as well as inspire within us a desire to celebrate and protect the institutions that make markets thrive.

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MG_0319

Markets Are More Complex Than Our Brains

– March 19, 2019

When we gloss over the complexity of the real world, we end up losing far more understanding than we often realize, and end up with strangely skewed perspectives on what happened and what to do about it.

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tallbuildings

Is Capitalism Sustainable?

– March 17, 2019

At some point, the last dollar invested in honest profits is going to return less than the first dollar to be spent on cronyism. After that, the firm becomes dependent on the state.

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openingup

The Year the Information Age Began

– March 16, 2019

As with all innovations, we went from deprived to entitled in a relatively short period of time. The age of not knowing became the age of knowing in a few short years, all thanks to astonishing innovations in service of making the world a better (but never perfect) place.

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commercialmarketplace

Is Capitalism Worth Saving?

– March 14, 2019

A clear-eyed comparison of the alternatives actually available to us reveal why all the world’s developed nations use some version of capitalism. The only people who advocate socialism are those who don’t know how it actually works.

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gnosticism

Against Political Gnosticism

– March 12, 2019

Let us celebrate honesty in politics above all else, even when it preaches something brazenly wrong, such as is the case with the far left and the far right today. Sincerity and forthright telling of truth in the long run skew in the direction of freedom. It’s the Gnostics among us that confuse and confound and create social systems that do the same.

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