Capitalism
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GLP-1 Weight-Loss Drugs Keep Getting Cheaper: Thank Competition
Wegovy’s cash price has dropped 75 percent since 2021 as drugmakers compete directly for patients. When insurers stay out, manufacturers must win customers with lower prices. Competition is making better health more abundant.
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Elon Musk’s Paper Billions Are Vanishing
The global trillionaire count returned to zero not long after SpaceX’s IPO. Market fluctuations show the danger of imposing cash tax bills on stock-price wealth.
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Humility Is Civilization’s Price of Admission
A Canadian shop mailed me the hard-to-find part to save my wife’s old blender. How do prices help strangers cooperate on a scale no one can engineer?
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Affordable Broadband is a Local Victory
Competition, deregulation, and innovation are giving consumers faster internet at lower prices.
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The Battle for the Future of Space
Rainer Zitelmann’s ‘Space Capitalism’ argues that property rights and free markets — not government control — will determine whether humanity’s next great frontier becomes a thriving commercial enterprise.
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The Food Revolution Nobody Planned
From food trucks to farmers’ markets and beyond, entrepreneurs — not policymakers — are finding new ways to feed people, create value, and deliver much more than just cheaper food.
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The Swinging Sixties, Chicago School Style
At the height of the cultural revolution, a group of Chicago economists was quietly launching one of its own.
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How Markets Fought Mosquitoes
More than a cartoon prop, the old-fashioned FLIT gun was one of many innovations that gave ordinary households unprecedented power over pests that plagued us for centuries.
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Ironic Inheritance: How Andrew Carnegie’s Millions Still Underwrite the Academy
Academics may distrust concentrated private wealth, but their retirement system owes its origins to one of history’s great industrial fortunes.
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The Airline Guide to Subjective Value
A full refund may balance an airline’s books, but it doesn’t make a stranded passenger whole. The difference illustrates one of economics’ most important insights: value is subjective.
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GLP-1 Weight-Loss Drugs Keep Getting Cheaper: Thank Competition
Wegovy’s cash price has dropped 75 percent since 2021 as drugmakers compete directly for patients. When insurers stay out, manufacturers must win customers with lower prices. Competition is making better health more abundant.
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Elon Musk’s Paper Billions Are Vanishing
The global trillionaire count returned to zero not long after SpaceX’s IPO. Market fluctuations show the danger of imposing cash tax bills on stock-price wealth.
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Humility Is Civilization’s Price of Admission
A Canadian shop mailed me the hard-to-find part to save my wife’s old blender. How do prices help strangers cooperate on a scale no one can engineer?
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Affordable Broadband is a Local Victory
Competition, deregulation, and innovation are giving consumers faster internet at lower prices.
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•
The Battle for the Future of Space
Rainer Zitelmann’s ‘Space Capitalism’ argues that property rights and free markets — not government control — will determine whether humanity’s next great frontier becomes a thriving commercial enterprise.
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•
The Food Revolution Nobody Planned
From food trucks to farmers’ markets and beyond, entrepreneurs — not policymakers — are finding new ways to feed people, create value, and deliver much more than just cheaper food.
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•
The Swinging Sixties, Chicago School Style
At the height of the cultural revolution, a group of Chicago economists was quietly launching one of its own.
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•
How Markets Fought Mosquitoes
More than a cartoon prop, the old-fashioned FLIT gun was one of many innovations that gave ordinary households unprecedented power over pests that plagued us for centuries.
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•
Ironic Inheritance: How Andrew Carnegie’s Millions Still Underwrite the Academy
Academics may distrust concentrated private wealth, but their retirement system owes its origins to one of history’s great industrial fortunes.
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•
The Airline Guide to Subjective Value
A full refund may balance an airline’s books, but it doesn’t make a stranded passenger whole. The difference illustrates one of economics’ most important insights: value is subjective.