Caleb S. Fuller
Contributor
Caleb S. Fuller is an Associate Professor of Economics in the Winklevoss School of Business at Grove City College and a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute. His research has appeared in the Journal of Business Venturing — where a co-authored article won the journal’s Best Paper Award — as well as Public Choice and the International Review of Law and Economics, among others. He is the author of No Free Lunch: Six Economic Lies You’ve Been Taught and Probably Believe and, with Art Carden, Mere Economics: Lessons For and From the Ordinary Business of Life. His writing for general audiences has appeared in The Wall Street Journal and The Hill.
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Why Studying Economics Requires Curiosity
“Studying economics requires curiosity because economics is about providing answers to social mysteries, not about condemning or praising social interaction. To make this point is to suggest that curiosity’s close intellectual cousin—humility—is also crucial to the economist’s task.” ~ Caleb S. Fuller
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Five Ways Minimum Wage Studies Fail
“We’d all do well to keep these five points in mind the next time we see a study touting that when it comes to the minimum wage there is, in fact, a free lunch.” ~ Caleb S. Fuller
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Studying Economics Instills Gratitude
“Grateful hearts want to see the sort of prosperity they have enjoyed extended to others near and far. Fortunately, economics also offers the prosperity recipe—if only we have ears to listen.” ~ Caleb S. Fuller
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Economics Just Lost Two Giants
“These thinkers are united by their devotion to understanding the institutions which underpin free and flourishing societies. They both understood that society’s “rules of the game” structure the incentives that economic actors face and downstream of these incentives lie the economic outcomes—for better or for worse.” ~ Caleb Fuller
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Why Studying Economics Requires Curiosity
“Studying economics requires curiosity because economics is about providing answers to social mysteries, not about condemning or praising social interaction. To make this point is to suggest that curiosity’s close intellectual cousin—humility—is also crucial to the economist’s task.” ~ Caleb S. Fuller
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Five Ways Minimum Wage Studies Fail
“We’d all do well to keep these five points in mind the next time we see a study touting that when it comes to the minimum wage there is, in fact, a free lunch.” ~ Caleb S. Fuller
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Studying Economics Instills Gratitude
“Grateful hearts want to see the sort of prosperity they have enjoyed extended to others near and far. Fortunately, economics also offers the prosperity recipe—if only we have ears to listen.” ~ Caleb S. Fuller
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Economics Just Lost Two Giants
“These thinkers are united by their devotion to understanding the institutions which underpin free and flourishing societies. They both understood that society’s “rules of the game” structure the incentives that economic actors face and downstream of these incentives lie the economic outcomes—for better or for worse.” ~ Caleb Fuller