The Oregon-based Sweet Cakes bakery has been ordered to pay $135,000 in damages for refusing to bake a wedding cake for a lesbian couple for their ceremony. In December of 2017, the Oregon State Court of Appeals upheld the decision to force the bakery to pay the couple for damages.

Social justice advocates argue that it is “society’s” duty to eliminate pain and inequality wherever and whenever it exists. What is interesting is that I have never met Mr. Society.

On the first day of my economics classes, I tell my students that if they saw my paychecks that they would realize the school is exploiting me.

We need to be careful about arguing that players have a First Amendment right to protest peacefully on the field.

The invisible hand of the market reaches out to help people in a disaster, but anti-gouging laws cut it off at the wrist.

It’s silly to think businesses and CEOs are evil and greedy, but ordinary customers are helpless victims.

“The marginal benefit of dating you is now equal to the marginal cost. I don’t have perfect information, but my information is good enough. So, would you marry me?”

Every transaction has a cost. What should you do when it doesn’t have a benefit, too?

Wrestling with ethical issues can bring life to the economics classroom.

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.

Truly supporting choice means supporting the right of individuals to choose.

Consensual sex is legal. But as soon as one party offers cash to another in exchange for sex and that money is voluntarily accepted, it’s considered prostitution, and that is illegal.

The free-market concept is simple — private property owners should be able to preside over whatever policies they want.

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.

Trump’s trade policies miss one of the most fundamental economic concepts: When two parties engage in trade, they are both better off.

Businesses aren’t charities. They are money-making ventures that exist by and for profit. Everything else is a bonus.