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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Cathedrals, Seen and Unseen
What the Notre-Dame fire of 2019 should teach us is that civilization is more fragile than we want to believe. We dare not take it for granted. The fires come when and from a place we least expect, and the damage is often irrecoverable.
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What Authors Should Know About Copyright
AIER’s publishing strategy is designed to broaden the choices available to authors, never using the force of law to deny creators their rights.
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What Happened to Manners and What to Do About It
The court of manners has been replaced by the court of law.
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Venezuela Should Shock and Teach this Generation
The food shortages have led to the end of anything normally called morality. Gangs of a thousand go hunting for food. They seize on a grocery store and light it on fire to provide light so that people can see in order to loot the place. Then it burns to the ground.
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Revolution and Counterrevolution
The conceptual breakdown of revolution/counterrevolution is vastly better than any modern typology that too often distracts from the key issue: the place of power in our lives.
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Do You Have a Right to Repair? Yes and No
This is not the free market at work. It is government intervention that steals the language of market competition to invalidate property rights and contracts.
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Name the State
The bitter truth about most public policies being sold by the political class is that they give them more power to control our lives. If you favor some of these policies, be honest with the rest of us about what you mean, so that we can make more clear-headed judgments about the kind of society…
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Wealth Has Never Been More Equal
In terms of information access and the opportunity to learn and share knowledge, we’ve never been more rich and equal.
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This Agency Might Wreck Internet Economics
Social media companies like Facebook obviously want to comply with the law, but they would also like to stay in business. That business depends fundamentally on targeting based on some demographic grounds. If a consistent application of non-discrimination law means that advertising has to become completely random to be compliant, Internet economics will experience the fate of…
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Kierkegaard’s Parable of Two Artists
The very existence of wealth creation should fill us with awe, respect, and endless curiosity, as well as inspire within us a desire to celebrate and protect the institutions that make markets thrive.
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Cathedrals, Seen and Unseen
What the Notre-Dame fire of 2019 should teach us is that civilization is more fragile than we want to believe. We dare not take it for granted. The fires come when and from a place we least expect, and the damage is often irrecoverable.
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•
What Authors Should Know About Copyright
AIER’s publishing strategy is designed to broaden the choices available to authors, never using the force of law to deny creators their rights.
-
•
What Happened to Manners and What to Do About It
The court of manners has been replaced by the court of law.
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•
Venezuela Should Shock and Teach this Generation
The food shortages have led to the end of anything normally called morality. Gangs of a thousand go hunting for food. They seize on a grocery store and light it on fire to provide light so that people can see in order to loot the place. Then it burns to the ground.
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•
Revolution and Counterrevolution
The conceptual breakdown of revolution/counterrevolution is vastly better than any modern typology that too often distracts from the key issue: the place of power in our lives.
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•
Do You Have a Right to Repair? Yes and No
This is not the free market at work. It is government intervention that steals the language of market competition to invalidate property rights and contracts.
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•
Name the State
The bitter truth about most public policies being sold by the political class is that they give them more power to control our lives. If you favor some of these policies, be honest with the rest of us about what you mean, so that we can make more clear-headed judgments about the kind of society…
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•
Wealth Has Never Been More Equal
In terms of information access and the opportunity to learn and share knowledge, we’ve never been more rich and equal.
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•
This Agency Might Wreck Internet Economics
Social media companies like Facebook obviously want to comply with the law, but they would also like to stay in business. That business depends fundamentally on targeting based on some demographic grounds. If a consistent application of non-discrimination law means that advertising has to become completely random to be compliant, Internet economics will experience the fate of…
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•
Kierkegaard’s Parable of Two Artists
The very existence of wealth creation should fill us with awe, respect, and endless curiosity, as well as inspire within us a desire to celebrate and protect the institutions that make markets thrive.