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All economic goods must, by definition, be allocated by some mechanism. Because the world’s resources are insufficient to satisfy all human wants, some process must be used to determine to…
Sumantra Maitra writes for the Martin Center about “the power of denunciation” in the field of political science. A recent case of attempted silencing and censorship has roiled the field…
Reihan Salam of National Review Online ties the history of the public clock to an economic lesson we still can learn today. Economists attempting to understand the relationship between new…
That’s the not very surprizing finding of a new study by Grace Lordan (London School of Economics) and David Neumark (University of California, Irving). The title of the study is…
Brendan Greeley‘s article in the latest issue of Bloomberg Businessweek highlights the unusual — and counterproductive — role government has played in Volkswagen’s operations over the years. In Italy, the…
“Does Management Matter in Schools” is the title of a new National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) study of the “operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800…
Amity Shlaes writes in the latest Forbes magazine about facts that contradict the popular view among left-of-center partisans about John F. Kennedy’s political views. Buried under a progressive monument built…
Count Thomas Sowell among those unimpressed by the economic views of Janet Yellen, nominated to serve as the next Federal Reserve chair. Ms. Yellen, a former professor of economics at…
What will 2013 bring to the U.S. economy? One of the most well known and respected business journalists working today will keynote the John Locke Foundation’s 23rd anniversary event next…
Those of you who read the print version of National Review might have encountered a slightly edited version of the following letter in the latest edition. John O’Sullivan inspired the…
? would those working for President Obama describe his White House in the following way in the latest TIME? Senior aides began trading memos months ago about the missteps of…
Bottum also passes along this nugget in the concluding item in First Things: The relentless quest for environmental sustainability has finally come to its logical conclusion: People are the problem…