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Hunter Hastings – Jeff Deist recently penned a metaphorical comparison of Austrian economics to the punk rock bands of the 70’s...
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Robert P. Murphy – One of the main themes of my writings on climate change at IER has been warning the public that the...
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Daniel J. Mitchell – I wrote five years ago about the growing threat of a wealth tax. Some friends at the time told...
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Ryan McMaken – Last month, 82 percent of Denver voters voted down Initiative 300, which would have overturned the city ban on...
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Jeffrey Harding – There are lots of ways to kill off a civilization. Wars, politics, economic collapse. But what are the actual...
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Allen Gindler – If we consider economics to be an objective science, its rules should also have universal significance and use,...
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Ryan McMaken – Homelessness today is often blamed on both “gentrification” and “neoliberalism.” When...
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Robert P. Murphy – I recently gave a talk to a student group at Connecticut College on the economics of climate change. (The...
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Matheus Fialho Vieira – In the words of Albert Jay Nock, the state “claims and exercises the monopoly of...
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Robert P. Murphy – Two years ago, President Trump announced he would begin the formal process of withdrawing the...
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Robert P. Murphy – In the old Soviet Union, the Communists allegedly used1 the term “useful idiot” to describe Westerners whose...
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Jorge Besada – Socialism will always encounter two big problems when regimes attempt to implement it: 1) the impossibility of...
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Jacob G. Hornberger – Imagine if Congress were to enact a law that required everyone to attend church on Sundays. The...
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Bill Tallen – There is a disproportionate buzz about the newly signed Florida legislation that allows its school districts...
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Jeff Deist – Presidential aspirant Kamala Harris promises to compel private companies with more than 100 employees to disclose...
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Robert P. Murphy – Wise alecks on social media noted with amusement how Beto O’Rourke recently claimed humans had...
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Chris Calton – After the collapse of the housing market in 2008, professional historians gave birth to a new sub-field of...
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Ryan McMaken – Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez unveiled sweeping new legislation on Thursday that would...
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Daniel J. Mitchell – Donald Trump is an incoherent mix of good policies and bad policies. Some of his...
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Alasdair Macleod – There is a certain tension in the phrase, “social democracy,” and the description of someone as a social...
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