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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Why JPM Coin Makes Perfect Sense
Using an encrypted digital ledger – one that substitutes hashes for trust – eliminates vast numbers of layers and time. Time and trust equal counterparty risk. Automating this with blockchain drops the costs to a small fraction while increasing certainty.
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Liberty and the Search for Meaning
What is the strongest objection to the idea of liberty, markets, and a self-managing society? We’ve been subjected to vast numbers of them recently. Which is most compelling?
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The Childcare Shortage Is Not a Mystery
Daycare for all is a great idea. A new government program is the worst possible way to get there.
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About this Proposal to End Air Travel
How to account for the existence of a document – widely trumpeted by the media – which proposes that we replace modern life for totalitarian government control?
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Are Republicans Turning Against Markets?
No, we do not exist to serve markets; markets exist to serve all people through the freedom to create, trade, and live a better life.
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AIER’s Marvelous Publishing Program
The urge to censor is the tribute that government pays to the power of ideas.
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The Game was Fine but the Ads Were Wonderful
Advertising, an extension of the freedom of speech, is ultimately about celebrating that of which Gladys Knight sang: “the land of the free.”
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It’s the Small Things, Like Hershey’s Kisses, that Matter
Want to become a champion of liberty? Eschew historicism. Be suspicious of grand millenarian eschatologies. Learn to love the little things in life. Celebrate every individual’s right to choose how they live their lives. Smile when you think of every box of chocolate given and received this February 14th.
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Imagine a Clock that Doesn’t Surveil You
It is like a living thing in your presence. It speaks with great profundity, the erudition achieved through wordless regularity.
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These Shutdowns Devastate the Credibility of Government
The problem is not a single program or regulation. It’s the complete paradigm of a state that knows no limits to its power. That paradigm has gradually faded. Another will take its place.
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Why JPM Coin Makes Perfect Sense
Using an encrypted digital ledger – one that substitutes hashes for trust – eliminates vast numbers of layers and time. Time and trust equal counterparty risk. Automating this with blockchain drops the costs to a small fraction while increasing certainty.
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•
Liberty and the Search for Meaning
What is the strongest objection to the idea of liberty, markets, and a self-managing society? We’ve been subjected to vast numbers of them recently. Which is most compelling?
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•
The Childcare Shortage Is Not a Mystery
Daycare for all is a great idea. A new government program is the worst possible way to get there.
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•
About this Proposal to End Air Travel
How to account for the existence of a document – widely trumpeted by the media – which proposes that we replace modern life for totalitarian government control?
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•
Are Republicans Turning Against Markets?
No, we do not exist to serve markets; markets exist to serve all people through the freedom to create, trade, and live a better life.
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•
AIER’s Marvelous Publishing Program
The urge to censor is the tribute that government pays to the power of ideas.
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•
The Game was Fine but the Ads Were Wonderful
Advertising, an extension of the freedom of speech, is ultimately about celebrating that of which Gladys Knight sang: “the land of the free.”
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•
It’s the Small Things, Like Hershey’s Kisses, that Matter
Want to become a champion of liberty? Eschew historicism. Be suspicious of grand millenarian eschatologies. Learn to love the little things in life. Celebrate every individual’s right to choose how they live their lives. Smile when you think of every box of chocolate given and received this February 14th.
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•
Imagine a Clock that Doesn’t Surveil You
It is like a living thing in your presence. It speaks with great profundity, the erudition achieved through wordless regularity.
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•
These Shutdowns Devastate the Credibility of Government
The problem is not a single program or regulation. It’s the complete paradigm of a state that knows no limits to its power. That paradigm has gradually faded. Another will take its place.