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Is an Educated Population Really Necessary for Innovation and Growth?
Lamentations that the waves of innovation are receding have engulfed policy circles. Distinguished economist Robert Gordon avers that the days...
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From Diseases to Recessions, Government Failure Is Endemic
As with economic policy to "cure" recessions, the authorities’ health response is good at crippling markets, but never delivers what...
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Canadians Should Be Able to Vote “None of the Above”
The fact that NOTA is not a genuine, nonsymbolic ballot option proves that the political class merely pays lip service...
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Should War Be Made “Humane”?
Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented Warby Samuel MoynFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 400 pp. Samuel Moyn is a...
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“The Great Reset” Is the Road to Socialism Mises Warned Us About
Through the sheer power of his intellectual output, Ludwig von Mises established himself as one of the most important intellectuals...
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Before a Bust, There Is Always a Boom (and Malinvestment)
For most commentators lending is associated with money. However, is this the case? When a saver lends money, what he/she...
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Covid Lockdowns Signal the Rise of Public Policy by Ransom
In the age of covid, governments have decided to embrace a new kind of policy: they'll hold the population hostage...
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Europe Faces a Fragile Economy as the Merkel Era Ends
As Angela Merkel prepares her exit from the chancellery in Berlin, a false alarm is ringing in Europe about an...
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The Prospects for Soft Secession in America
1930, Columbia professor Karl Llewellyn published The Bramble Bush, his famous tract on how to think about and study law. Llewellyn...
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Why Bureaucrats Are Sitting on So Much Money-Losing Real Estate
The very size and scope of the United States federal government is likely something that Ludwig von Mises could not...
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