Jeffrey Tucker
AIER Editorial Director – 2017-2021
Jeffrey A. Tucker served as Editorial Director for the American Institute for Economic Research from 2017 to 2021.
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An Answer to the Pope, a Leader of Libertarianism’s Critics
Pope Francis has been consistently against capitalism and not just capitalism; his target since at least 2014 has been the whole system of human liberty insofar as it impacts commercial life.
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Is It Obvious Yet that Tariffs Injure Americans?
Tariffs invite retaliation thus ruining export markets in addition to raising prices and tipping small businesses into the failing side of thin margins.
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Economics Is the Honey Badger
What happens when you fight economics? Economics pushes back. It cares nothing for your visions, speeches, songs, hats, and rallies; indeed, not even the world’s biggest guns and armies can stop the forces of supply and demand.
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The Three Errors of Conspiracy Theory, Even True Ones
As the friend/enemy dichotomy intensifies, conspiracy theory advances, and not without evidence: the more politicized society becomes, the more conspiracies really do exist.
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It’s Not the End of Agriculture as We Know It
Modern agricultural technologies and long-distance trade have benefitted the environment by concentrating food production in the best locations and by drastically increasing yields.
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The Revolution of 1948, and Its Reversal
GATT marked a seachange in economic affairs, the moment when nationalist-style protectionism gave way to international cooperation and the primacy of enterprise. It was the revolution of 1948.
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A Job Is Not Alienating; It Is Empowering
Beware: every theory that posits that your job is alienating is a ruse to draft you into a new form of collective identity in which you will have fewer choices.
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“Do Something” Is a Dangerous Demand to Make of Politicians
If we really want the political class to do something, my humble suggestion that they stop fomenting tribal wars that fuel hatreds and instead point out the great lesson of modernity that people in all their diversity can work together in peace.
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To Fight Hate, Celebrate Capitalism
Ideologies of control and hate have targeted commercial life because of its best feature of breaking down tribes and substituting in its place an ever-evolving universal cooperation.
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The Hidden Reason the Primary Debates Seem Extra Crazy This Year
This is a remarkable case of how a hastily drafted voting rule unintentionally drove the whole Democratic field to a wacky level of ideological extremism that nearly guarantees they will lose a national election. Everyone knows it, most everyone is against it, but no one can stop it.
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An Answer to the Pope, a Leader of Libertarianism’s Critics
Pope Francis has been consistently against capitalism and not just capitalism; his target since at least 2014 has been the whole system of human liberty insofar as it impacts commercial life.
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•
Is It Obvious Yet that Tariffs Injure Americans?
Tariffs invite retaliation thus ruining export markets in addition to raising prices and tipping small businesses into the failing side of thin margins.
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•
Economics Is the Honey Badger
What happens when you fight economics? Economics pushes back. It cares nothing for your visions, speeches, songs, hats, and rallies; indeed, not even the world’s biggest guns and armies can stop the forces of supply and demand.
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•
The Three Errors of Conspiracy Theory, Even True Ones
As the friend/enemy dichotomy intensifies, conspiracy theory advances, and not without evidence: the more politicized society becomes, the more conspiracies really do exist.
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•
It’s Not the End of Agriculture as We Know It
Modern agricultural technologies and long-distance trade have benefitted the environment by concentrating food production in the best locations and by drastically increasing yields.
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•
The Revolution of 1948, and Its Reversal
GATT marked a seachange in economic affairs, the moment when nationalist-style protectionism gave way to international cooperation and the primacy of enterprise. It was the revolution of 1948.
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•
A Job Is Not Alienating; It Is Empowering
Beware: every theory that posits that your job is alienating is a ruse to draft you into a new form of collective identity in which you will have fewer choices.
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•
“Do Something” Is a Dangerous Demand to Make of Politicians
If we really want the political class to do something, my humble suggestion that they stop fomenting tribal wars that fuel hatreds and instead point out the great lesson of modernity that people in all their diversity can work together in peace.
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•
To Fight Hate, Celebrate Capitalism
Ideologies of control and hate have targeted commercial life because of its best feature of breaking down tribes and substituting in its place an ever-evolving universal cooperation.
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•
The Hidden Reason the Primary Debates Seem Extra Crazy This Year
This is a remarkable case of how a hastily drafted voting rule unintentionally drove the whole Democratic field to a wacky level of ideological extremism that nearly guarantees they will lose a national election. Everyone knows it, most everyone is against it, but no one can stop it.