Economics professor Sandy Ikeda hits the nail on the head with his Freeman piece today. Every passage in the piece is eminently quotable, but here’s perhaps the best: “Governments equate…
In another of his superb Freeman articles, economics professor Sandy Ikeda today writes about how socialism leads to the stifling of dissent. Not just de facto socialism, of course. Obama…
Econ prof Sandy Ikeda has one of his uniformly sharp Freeman pieces today, this one looking at the debate over the minimum wage. He notes that instead of intelligent argumentation,…
Once again, Professor Sandy Ikeda has written a sharp and insightful piece for The Freeman, this time on the problems of urban planning. He expands on Jane Jacobs’ observations of…
I regularly post the well-reasoned Freeman articles of economics professor Sandy Ikeda here. I particularly like this one because it deals with the subject of higher education. He sees the…
Economics professor Sandy Ikeda incorporates those words of Jane Jacobs, pertaining to what happens as government grows beyond its proper functions, in his latest Freeman piece. The point both are getting…
I have often extolled the excellent essays by economics professor Sandy Ikeda and his latest one published by the Foundation for Economic Education is another good read. In it, he…
Econ professor Sandy Ikeda has done it again — another sharp Freeman column exploring mistaken economic thinking. This time he observes that politicians usually ignore the fact of scarcity and…
Economics professor Sandy Ikeda has been writing about various myths regarding free markets and in this Freeman piece today, he addresses four more.
In this Freeman piece, economics professor Sandy Ikeda discusses the risible idea raised by an economics prof in Britain (along with a number of so-called students) that universities stop teaching…
Economics professor Sandy Ikeda observes that there will be plenty of bad ones in this Freeman article. Government policies meant to reduce insecurity tend to increase it for many people,…
Last week, economics professor Sandy Ikeda wrote about seven common myths about the free market and in this Freeman article, he discusses seven more. The arguments we hear day after…