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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The Return of Protectionism
Fortunately for us, this might be a temporary detour away from the long pattern of the expansion of global trade. The damage could be lasting, however.
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Design Regulations Helped Ruin American Cars
Designers did not somehow lose imagination over the last 25 years. The designs of new cars are boring because regulations forced this result.
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Everything You Have Is Worthless
Whether you keep your stuff or not is up to you. But it is not up to you what price your stuff will elicit on the open marketplace.
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This Poll on Socialism Is Not as Alarming as It Seems
Government right now is historically unpopular, just as the free market is widely respected as the proper way to bring about social change.
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Are Tariffs Killing People?
When you play politics with international trade, you play a very dangerous game that can result in vast collateral damage.
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Why Is Brazil So Happy?
Not all things are right with the world here yet. There is a very long way to go. The point is that people in this country now know that change can happen.
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The Love the Market Gives
Every unforced decision to trade represents a spark of insight, a hope for a better future, and the instantiation of a human relationship that affirms the dignity of everyone involved. Sometimes that relationship is personal; it is even more awesome to consider the enormously complex impersonal relationships that make up the vast global networks of…
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Create Socialism Over One Product, Then We’ll Talk
If socialism can’t be made to work in such a small and simple case like this, why would one think that all these problems would go away once you expand the idea of common ownership to the whole of society and all existing goods?
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The Market Loves You; Why You Should Love It Back
The institutional setting in which human relationships become real in our lives is the market. The moral aesthetic of the market is lovely. It fosters love. It needs love.
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Did You Write Your Bitcoin Obituary in Time?
Because so many lack the patience to understand, and perhaps because so few can explain it coherently, there is a strange lust in the land to debunk the whole thing. Every single time the market drops, people get busy writing obituaries for crypto. I’ve been seeing these appear since the market price was $14.
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The Return of Protectionism
Fortunately for us, this might be a temporary detour away from the long pattern of the expansion of global trade. The damage could be lasting, however.
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•
Design Regulations Helped Ruin American Cars
Designers did not somehow lose imagination over the last 25 years. The designs of new cars are boring because regulations forced this result.
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•
Everything You Have Is Worthless
Whether you keep your stuff or not is up to you. But it is not up to you what price your stuff will elicit on the open marketplace.
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•
This Poll on Socialism Is Not as Alarming as It Seems
Government right now is historically unpopular, just as the free market is widely respected as the proper way to bring about social change.
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•
Are Tariffs Killing People?
When you play politics with international trade, you play a very dangerous game that can result in vast collateral damage.
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•
Why Is Brazil So Happy?
Not all things are right with the world here yet. There is a very long way to go. The point is that people in this country now know that change can happen.
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•
The Love the Market Gives
Every unforced decision to trade represents a spark of insight, a hope for a better future, and the instantiation of a human relationship that affirms the dignity of everyone involved. Sometimes that relationship is personal; it is even more awesome to consider the enormously complex impersonal relationships that make up the vast global networks of…
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•
Create Socialism Over One Product, Then We’ll Talk
If socialism can’t be made to work in such a small and simple case like this, why would one think that all these problems would go away once you expand the idea of common ownership to the whole of society and all existing goods?
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•
The Market Loves You; Why You Should Love It Back
The institutional setting in which human relationships become real in our lives is the market. The moral aesthetic of the market is lovely. It fosters love. It needs love.
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•
Did You Write Your Bitcoin Obituary in Time?
Because so many lack the patience to understand, and perhaps because so few can explain it coherently, there is a strange lust in the land to debunk the whole thing. Every single time the market drops, people get busy writing obituaries for crypto. I’ve been seeing these appear since the market price was $14.