Tag: Capitalism
Millennials are in a love triangle with capitalism and socialism
August 23, 2017 | Post
Millennials may talk the socialist talk, but this look at the evidence shows they also walk a rather capitalist walk.
Reddit AMA with Professor Jeffrey Miron of Harvard University
August 4, 2017 | Post
Dr. Miron has written over 100 op-eds and several books, including Drug War Crimes: The Consequences of Prohibition (2004) and Libertarianism: from A to Z (2010).
Why your boss isn’t ripping you off. Marxism 101 debunked.
June 27, 2017 | Post
Have you ever thought your employer was exploiting you? That the company you work for doesn’t really earn its profits — it just rips off its workers?
Does the market make us good? Does socialism?
June 21, 2017 | Post
Only in freedom do people have the ability to be good, but can freedom itself teach us what “goodness” means?
Lawnmowing licenses: Crony capitalism in action
June 6, 2017 | Post
This isn’t an accident. This is the purpose of these regulations — to protect established businesses from competition.
Why My Pit Bull Lives like a King
May 2, 2017 | Post
My 85-pound pit bull lives better than most people on this planet do. He eats superior food, drinks clean water, and sleeps inside a comfortable house on a comfortable bed.
Will President Trump kill capitalism?
February 23, 2017 | Post
Capitalism—stronger than any border wall or immigration ban—remains a resilient and deeply American system.
William Graham Sumner Part 1 – Laissez-Faire and Social Darwinism
February 12, 2017 | Post
William Graham Sumner often gets unfairly labeled a social Darwinist. In this first post in a new series, Zwolinski tries to nail down just what “social Darwinism” means.
Crony-in-Chief: Donald Trump epitomizes Ayn Rand’s “Aristocracy of Pull.”
February 2, 2017 | Post
A president who truly understood Rand’s philosophy would not be cozying up to Putin, bullying companies to keep manufacturing plants in the United States, or promising “insurance for everybody.”
America changed, and the Rust Belt failed to adapt
January 27, 2017 | Post
On Friday, January 20, 2017, Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. His victory in the 2016 election was a surprise to many, and his success in the so called Rust Belt made it happen. Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania all went to Trump, something that hadn’t happened for a Republican […]
The robber barons weren't robbers. Here's why.
January 5, 2017 | Post
Among the great misconceptions of the free economy is the widely-held belief that “laissez faire” embodies a natural tendency toward monopoly concentration.
Why we should celebrate capitalism and consumerism, at Christmas and all year
December 22, 2016 | Post
Last Christmas, Pope Francis criticized holiday consumerism, saying that ours is “a society often intoxicated by consumerism … wealth and extravagance.”
To understand why this sort of critique is mistaken, and why consumerism and capitalism deserve our love at Christmastime and throughout the year, we need to go back to basics.
Markets make your holiday feast bigger, better, and cheaper than ever
December 16, 2016 | Post
Market economies have continually driven down the real cost of food, enabling more and more people to consume more calories and a wider variety of higher quality food.
Capitalism & slavery
December 15, 2016 | Post
The most far-fetched myth that I’ve encountered recently is that the wealth of the modern Western world, especially that of the United States, is the product of slavery.
Pay for bone marrow, save lives
November 29, 2016 | Post
This past week, I was on a panel for a Senate Hill Briefing entitled “Should compensation for bone marrow donors be legal?”
How defending capitalism is like recycling
November 26, 2016 | Post
Recycling is one example of an action that we take in the present to benefit a group in the future.
Yet another comically bad caricature of libertarianism
October 15, 2016 | Post
Another day, another hilariously awful straw man argument against libertarianism.
Elon Musk is no capitalist hero, but he’s no Bond villain either
October 9, 2016 | Post
Musk brings to the conversation a vision of changing how we get around, how we power what gets us around, and where we live. In so doing, he is working to address some of the most important challenges facing our species.
Should Paid Surrogacy Be Illegal?
October 6, 2016 | Post
NPR’s Goats and Soda recently covered a debate in India over surrogacy. In India, there is a thriving industry of women who are paid to be surrogate mothers, carrying another couple’s children. Many surrogates are impoverished women, and there are growing concerns that paying poor women to be surrogates amounts to exploitation. Some are calling […]
Profit Shouldn’t Be a Dirty Word In Drug Development
October 2, 2016 | Post
The spread of markets into the healthcare sector has allowed us to live longer than ever before.
Are Silicon Valley's Chaos Makers Smart or Insane?
September 23, 2016 | Post
Entrepreneurs pitch an endless stream of Ideas. Everyone argues over which can work. A few attract funding. Most fail. This competitive market process ensures only the best survive.
There's No Such Thing as Too Much Profit
September 13, 2016 | Post
Businesses aren’t charities. They are money-making ventures that exist by and for profit. Everything else is a bonus.
Nintendo's Rebooted NES Console a Nostalgic Reminder of Our Economic Progress
September 8, 2016 | Post
Adjusting for inflation, that a regular NES and 30 games would be about $2450 in 2015 dollars. And we can get all that today for $70. That’s a 97 percent price decrease without adjusting for quality
You Keep Using the Word Capitalism…
June 2, 2016 | Post
We do not think it means what you think it means. There are a lot of polls about what millennials think about capitalism and socialism. According to these polls, millennials like socialism, but not capitalism. But what do they mean by capitalism and socialism? For reference, here are the definitions of capitalism and socialism according […]