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 Mystical Magic of the Mechanical Clock
And so what do we do with this thing we call time? We make the best of it. We make it matter. How much? As much as we can comprehend. The mechanical clock, by dividing the thing we call the second into two parts, tick and tock, allows us to discern that our life is…
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The Humanitarian Case for the Freedom to Associate
Anti-discrimination law interrupts important information flows that enable buyers to make rational decisions, supporting values of which they approve and denying funds to people with values of which they disapprove. These laws thereby interrupt the feedback mechanism that makes market democracy work. It also takes away the incentive for people to adapt their own value…
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Free Enterprise Combines Self-Interest and Love
Material acquisition and love of one’s neighbor are harmonious. It’s the combination of the two that makes up the driving force of economic progress.
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Identity Politics Is Devouring Itself
Find any biological trait, posit it as a collective interest, set that trait against all other traits, and then struggle for power and privilege; your outlook comes to be characterized by loathing and resentment against the collective guilt of everyone but yourself.
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How the Shutdown Has Affected Tariff Exemptions
The government shutdown should serve as a reminder of the dangers of all government regulation, especially when the regulators block the freedom to trade, promise to make exceptions, and then fail to perform at all.
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Economic Controls Turn Regular People Into Criminals
When government regulates and legislates, it is not causing some imagined form of social uplift for the masses toiling under the terrible demands of freedom. It is instead making more criminals out of people who just want to live a better life.
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Father of Protectionism: The Baneful but Lasting Influence of Friedrich List
List posited a conflict between the interests of commercial society and the interests of the nation as a whole.
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No, This Shutdown Does Not Look Like Liberty
This shutdown is not showing us what freedom looks and feels like. It is not a libertarian experiment. It is showing us just how much government is doing that it need not do.
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Mistakes People Make When They Are Fired
Everyone will get fired at some point in a career. Whether you turn this to the good in your life is up to you.
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The Incredible Delusion of the 70% Tax Rate
The collapse in confidence in government from 77% to 18% is one of the most striking changes in public philosophy of the last half century. To proceed as if this means nothing represents astonishing ideological blindness.
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The Mystical Magic of the Mechanical Clock
And so what do we do with this thing we call time? We make the best of it. We make it matter. How much? As much as we can comprehend. The mechanical clock, by dividing the thing we call the second into two parts, tick and tock, allows us to discern that our life is…
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The Humanitarian Case for the Freedom to Associate
Anti-discrimination law interrupts important information flows that enable buyers to make rational decisions, supporting values of which they approve and denying funds to people with values of which they disapprove. These laws thereby interrupt the feedback mechanism that makes market democracy work. It also takes away the incentive for people to adapt their own value…
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Free Enterprise Combines Self-Interest and Love
Material acquisition and love of one’s neighbor are harmonious. It’s the combination of the two that makes up the driving force of economic progress.
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Identity Politics Is Devouring Itself
Find any biological trait, posit it as a collective interest, set that trait against all other traits, and then struggle for power and privilege; your outlook comes to be characterized by loathing and resentment against the collective guilt of everyone but yourself.
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How the Shutdown Has Affected Tariff Exemptions
The government shutdown should serve as a reminder of the dangers of all government regulation, especially when the regulators block the freedom to trade, promise to make exceptions, and then fail to perform at all.
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Economic Controls Turn Regular People Into Criminals
When government regulates and legislates, it is not causing some imagined form of social uplift for the masses toiling under the terrible demands of freedom. It is instead making more criminals out of people who just want to live a better life.
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•
Father of Protectionism: The Baneful but Lasting Influence of Friedrich List
List posited a conflict between the interests of commercial society and the interests of the nation as a whole.
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No, This Shutdown Does Not Look Like Liberty
This shutdown is not showing us what freedom looks and feels like. It is not a libertarian experiment. It is showing us just how much government is doing that it need not do.
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•
Mistakes People Make When They Are Fired
Everyone will get fired at some point in a career. Whether you turn this to the good in your life is up to you.
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•
The Incredible Delusion of the 70% Tax Rate
The collapse in confidence in government from 77% to 18% is one of the most striking changes in public philosophy of the last half century. To proceed as if this means nothing represents astonishing ideological blindness.