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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Political Division Is How We Grow Rich
What I’m suggesting here is that the divisions between these various centers of political, culture, and intellectual power are actually a good thing. I wouldn’t want anyone to win the great debates of our time. The end of division itself might be the worst possible outcome because it would imply that someone power source is…
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How IKEA Changed Our Values and Lives
Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of IKEA, has died at the age of 91. He is a remarkable example of how enterprise and visionary entrepreneurship can have such a profound effect on the world. Even now, walking into an IKEA store for the first time is a riveting experience. It invites you to reassess your life…
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What’s Wrong with Copyright and How to Fix It
To my mind, Creative Commons is an imperfect solution to a major problem, while the best solution would simply leave the whole problem of production, ownership, and attribution to the market itself. But that is not the world we yet live in. Until then, it’s a beautiful thing that the market has found a stop-gap…
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Civil Asset Forfeiture Undermines Free Enterprise and Human Dignity
Private property rights are the foundation of free enterprise. Without property rights trade will be suppressed and pushed underground. Growth is strangled and good people resort to dealing with corrupt officials and black market sellers just to get through their lives. We are all made worse off when authorities have excessive discretion, and without proof…
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Trump’s Tariff Threat Is Real
Trump seems to understand what is wrong with red tape and high costs within the borders but he seems blind to the terrible costs of doing the same to goods and services that cross the border into the United States.
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Bettina Bien Greaves, Faithful Servant of History
She had a beautiful and blunt way about her, never sugar-coating the history but always inspired by an ideal she fell in love with and never gave up: the idea that human freedom is the right principle for the good society.
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The Real Losers In the Shutdown Fiasco
It’s time to put a final close on the era of government hegemony over our lives. There need never be another drama over closings of government offices. Shut them down for good. Sell the assets. Privatize the services.
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Blockchain Works Like Money in Yap
Blockchain is a technical innovation. But it is not an innovation in how we aspire to live. There is a big difference. The blockchain allows people to achieve something we have always wanted to do but haven’t been able to do until now. The stone money on the island of Yap is an example.
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Bitcoin Should Be Welcomed as More Robust Than Fiat, Says Fed-backed Research
My theory: the paper is written for bankers and policy makers of an older generation who have heretofore ignored or dismissed crypto-based innovations. They might know something about money and banking. But they know next to nothing about computer science, digital resources, and cryptography. As a result, the paper speaks in the plainest-possible English about…
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Deregulation Is an Anti-Racist Policy
Markets breed integrated communities. Go to any large city with a heterogeneous population (New York, Miami, Atlanta) and you see it in the everyday business life of the city. Commerce is what breaks down prejudicial barriers and brings people together. Deregulation in every area – from labor to immigration to medical provision to land use…
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Political Division Is How We Grow Rich
What I’m suggesting here is that the divisions between these various centers of political, culture, and intellectual power are actually a good thing. I wouldn’t want anyone to win the great debates of our time. The end of division itself might be the worst possible outcome because it would imply that someone power source is…
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How IKEA Changed Our Values and Lives
Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of IKEA, has died at the age of 91. He is a remarkable example of how enterprise and visionary entrepreneurship can have such a profound effect on the world. Even now, walking into an IKEA store for the first time is a riveting experience. It invites you to reassess your life…
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What’s Wrong with Copyright and How to Fix It
To my mind, Creative Commons is an imperfect solution to a major problem, while the best solution would simply leave the whole problem of production, ownership, and attribution to the market itself. But that is not the world we yet live in. Until then, it’s a beautiful thing that the market has found a stop-gap…
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Civil Asset Forfeiture Undermines Free Enterprise and Human Dignity
Private property rights are the foundation of free enterprise. Without property rights trade will be suppressed and pushed underground. Growth is strangled and good people resort to dealing with corrupt officials and black market sellers just to get through their lives. We are all made worse off when authorities have excessive discretion, and without proof…
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Trump’s Tariff Threat Is Real
Trump seems to understand what is wrong with red tape and high costs within the borders but he seems blind to the terrible costs of doing the same to goods and services that cross the border into the United States.
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Bettina Bien Greaves, Faithful Servant of History
She had a beautiful and blunt way about her, never sugar-coating the history but always inspired by an ideal she fell in love with and never gave up: the idea that human freedom is the right principle for the good society.
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•
The Real Losers In the Shutdown Fiasco
It’s time to put a final close on the era of government hegemony over our lives. There need never be another drama over closings of government offices. Shut them down for good. Sell the assets. Privatize the services.
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•
Blockchain Works Like Money in Yap
Blockchain is a technical innovation. But it is not an innovation in how we aspire to live. There is a big difference. The blockchain allows people to achieve something we have always wanted to do but haven’t been able to do until now. The stone money on the island of Yap is an example.
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Bitcoin Should Be Welcomed as More Robust Than Fiat, Says Fed-backed Research
My theory: the paper is written for bankers and policy makers of an older generation who have heretofore ignored or dismissed crypto-based innovations. They might know something about money and banking. But they know next to nothing about computer science, digital resources, and cryptography. As a result, the paper speaks in the plainest-possible English about…
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Deregulation Is an Anti-Racist Policy
Markets breed integrated communities. Go to any large city with a heterogeneous population (New York, Miami, Atlanta) and you see it in the everyday business life of the city. Commerce is what breaks down prejudicial barriers and brings people together. Deregulation in every area – from labor to immigration to medical provision to land use…