Tag: resources
How the profit motive can protect the environment
August 22, 2022 | Post
The pursuit of profit in the free market is often cited as the main cause of environmental disasters and poor environmental quality, leading to a lot of blame placed on entrepreneurs. However, this is certainly not set in stone. Indeed, the pursuit of profit can actually protect the environment, rather than devastate it.
Famine is about freedom, not just food
March 26, 2017 | Post
How can people still starve in a world overflowing with food and a vast international aid apparatus?
Why it would be madness to produce all our own food
March 14, 2017 | Post
There’s a reason why, in times of war, countries have blockaded others.
Trump's proposed wall and tax are folly
February 22, 2017 | Post
The idea is wrongheaded on both counts: they would harm citizens of the US as well as those of Latin America.
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.
Science: A Short Story
September 4, 2016 | Post
Several years ago Uncle Sam declared Jones, a man in his mid-40s, to be uniquely entitled to retire immediately at double his real annual income of $100,000 for life. Jones took Uncle Sam up on this offer. Each and every year until Jones enters oblivion Uncle Sam now transfers to him $200,000. Jones is made […]