Economic Education
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A Short ESG Guide: Economic Problems
“The current approach to mitigating climate change guarantees inefficiency and waste. No one knows which technologies and which companies will be most effective.” ~Paul Mueller
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Podcast: How free is your state?
AIER’s Jason Sorens joins Kate Wand on Liberty Curious to discuss his book ‘Freedom in the 50 States.” In this 7th edition, New Hampshire, Florida, and South Dakota are the freest states in the country. Where does your state rank?
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This Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore: Maybe You Don’t Need a Can Opener
“Pull tabs and plastic bottles are among the innumerable wonders free people exercising free minds in free markets bring to us every day in exchange for progressively fewer fruits of our labors.” ~Art Carden
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Christmas Calculations and Yuletide Yields
“Consider the choice Christmas tree farmers face. They can chop the tree and sell it, or they could let the tree continue to grow. Farmers maximize their profits and chop the tree when the tree’s yield falls below the market rate.” ~Byron B. Carson, III
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“Strange, Isn’t It?” Adam Smith and the Angel Clarence
“Adam Smith showed my students that they are constantly influenced for the better by the work of countless thousands of others whom they will never know.” ~Jeff Ziegler
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Music Has No Economic Value
“With limited world demand for music, the economic value of that creation, like oxygen, falls to zero. The same isn’t true for the earphones I’m using, since they can’t also be used by anybody else.” ~Joakim Book
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Time is on Government’s Side
“Politicians get the credit for creating the program, but bear only a small part of the cost of paying for it, leaving the vast majority of the costs to future generations.” ~Gary M. Galles
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A Profound Misdiagnosis of American Transit
“We don’t need a resurgence of government spending on research and development to get more innovation in our transit systems. We just need governments to get out of the way!” ~Paul Mueller
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Are Entrepreneurs Insufficiently Incited to Compete in Markets that Serve Low-Income People?
“We then must ask: If low-income people are indeed beset by monopoly prices, why don’t entrepreneurs sweep in to compete those prices down to competitive levels?” ~Donald J. Boudreaux
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It’s Time to Discard Piketty’s Inequality Statistics
“As the study and measurement of inequality progresses, Piketty’s (and his team’s) main estimates have become obsolete and might be properly consigned to the field of the history of economic thought.” ~Phil Magness & Vincent Geloso
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A Short ESG Guide: Economic Problems
“The current approach to mitigating climate change guarantees inefficiency and waste. No one knows which technologies and which companies will be most effective.” ~Paul Mueller
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•
Podcast: How free is your state?
AIER’s Jason Sorens joins Kate Wand on Liberty Curious to discuss his book ‘Freedom in the 50 States.” In this 7th edition, New Hampshire, Florida, and South Dakota are the freest states in the country. Where does your state rank?
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This Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore: Maybe You Don’t Need a Can Opener
“Pull tabs and plastic bottles are among the innumerable wonders free people exercising free minds in free markets bring to us every day in exchange for progressively fewer fruits of our labors.” ~Art Carden
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Christmas Calculations and Yuletide Yields
“Consider the choice Christmas tree farmers face. They can chop the tree and sell it, or they could let the tree continue to grow. Farmers maximize their profits and chop the tree when the tree’s yield falls below the market rate.” ~Byron B. Carson, III
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“Strange, Isn’t It?” Adam Smith and the Angel Clarence
“Adam Smith showed my students that they are constantly influenced for the better by the work of countless thousands of others whom they will never know.” ~Jeff Ziegler
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Music Has No Economic Value
“With limited world demand for music, the economic value of that creation, like oxygen, falls to zero. The same isn’t true for the earphones I’m using, since they can’t also be used by anybody else.” ~Joakim Book
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Time is on Government’s Side
“Politicians get the credit for creating the program, but bear only a small part of the cost of paying for it, leaving the vast majority of the costs to future generations.” ~Gary M. Galles
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•
A Profound Misdiagnosis of American Transit
“We don’t need a resurgence of government spending on research and development to get more innovation in our transit systems. We just need governments to get out of the way!” ~Paul Mueller
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Are Entrepreneurs Insufficiently Incited to Compete in Markets that Serve Low-Income People?
“We then must ask: If low-income people are indeed beset by monopoly prices, why don’t entrepreneurs sweep in to compete those prices down to competitive levels?” ~Donald J. Boudreaux
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It’s Time to Discard Piketty’s Inequality Statistics
“As the study and measurement of inequality progresses, Piketty’s (and his team’s) main estimates have become obsolete and might be properly consigned to the field of the history of economic thought.” ~Phil Magness & Vincent Geloso