Two front-page stories in the Metro section of Monday’s Washington Post depict protected service providers desperately trying to fight off innovations that might serve customers better and threaten the comfortable incomes of the established providers.
In my mind, then, Castro is a lot like the minimum wage: something we must stubbornly decry even though there are far greater ills in the world.
This past week, I was on a panel for a Senate Hill Briefing entitled “Should compensation for bone marrow donors be legal?”
In association with Learn Liberty, Professor Antony Davies will be visiting Reddit for an AMA today, Monday, November 28th at 7:00pm EST. He’ll be taking your questions on economics, public policy, his experiences as a tech entrepreneur, and much more! Dr. Davies is an Associate Professor of Economics at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is […]
Recycling is one example of an action that we take in the present to benefit a group in the future.
Have you ever stopped and looked around the grocery store? There are thousands of products neatly arranged and conveniently located just for you.
An astonishingly high percentage of millennials do not know who communist leaders like Mao Zedong and Vladimir Lenin were.
If you ask most people what classical liberalism is, they’ll say that it’s essentially free-market economics. But that’s a rather impoverished and narrow idea.
If we want the market order to survive, we will have to continue to treat it both in theory and practice as a realm of moral and virtuous behavior.
Learn Liberty veteran Professors Peter Jaworski and Art Carden met up at a Samford University Bulldogs game to wax philosophical about the economics of college sports. In the video below, Carden asks, “Would it compromise the integrity of the sport if the student athletes were paid for the value they produce for their school?” to […]
Airbnb is now facing greater opposition in New York thanks to a recent bill signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo which bans advertising of short-term rentals.
Here are some thoughts on the implications of Donald Trump assuming the presidency with respect to monetary policy.
Why should students read big, difficult books if they have perfectly good summaries available to them?
California’s minimum wage is set to rise to $15 an hour by 2022.
Sports are a terrific lens for focusing in on the process of decision-making — they’re almost laboratories for incentives.
Reports of the world’s demise are greatly exaggerated.
A market for parking free of government manipulation would reduce inequality, improve the environment, and make cities more livable.
Here are three movies that can help to demonstrate the concept of public choice theory in action.
The following is the first installment in a five-part debate between Georgetown Professor Jason Brennan and Princeton Professor Philip Pettit on the merits of democracy as a system of social order.
This thought experiment will help you wrap your head around the inanity of Trump’s trade policies.
A good part of the ethics of enterprise is reflected in the integrity, discipline, and quality of character that must enter into those individuals who choose the role of entrepreneurial leadership.
Like any other economic good, the value of a higher education degree is determined on the market, at the intersection of the subjective valuations and appraisements of those constituting the supply and demand of that particular good.
Donald Trump is a protectionist like many other politicians, save that he unfurls his vast economic ignorance more fully and more proudly than do more seasoned politicians. I’ve more questions for Trump and his fans, and, indeed, for protectionists of all stripes, colors, and temperaments. Such as…. – If you buy your tomatoes and okra […]
The final moments of an economist amidst a horde of zombies.