Economic Education
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Five Myths Propagated by Local-Food Activists
By promoting the increased production of local food that does not offer a compelling quality/price ratio while shunning modern production and processing technologies, activists ensured that our food supply would become more expensive, environmentally damaging, and hazardous to our health .
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The Struggle to Get Education Away from the State
Education reform is a perennial hot-button issue, with teachers’ unions like the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association spending vast sums to elect their preferred candidates and lobby them for reforms they find favorable. Interest in free-market alternatives to government education has increased since the middle of the 1950s, when Milton Friedman…
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The Wonderful Surprises of Comparative Advantage
Human society is permeated with comparative advantage. When each person specializes in performing that task, or small set of tasks, for which he or she has a comparative advantage — and then exchanges the fruits of this labor for goods and services produced by others — everyone who participates in this system of specialization and…
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Economics Is the Great Reality Check
Economics is a ubiquitous and conspicuous set of limits that cause everyone to buck up, cease our simpleton solipsism, face what’s true, become disciplined, get adaptable outside our embedded identity, live within our means, adopt solid values, and lead a good life.
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What Is Comparative Advantage?
An economic entity’s technical ability to produce some particular product is, by itself, irrelevant for determining if that entity should produce that product itself or, instead, acquire that product by first producing something else and then trading that something else for the product.
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How Kids Create Wealth By Trading Halloween Candy
The post-Halloween candy market is a commercial society of traders buying low and selling high, and it’s a microcosm of what happens when market exchange works well.
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Wealth Inequality: It’s Complicated
In the debates over wealth inequality that have followed the publication of The Triumph of Injustice (authored by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman), there have been intense discussions of the methodological choices made in the book. There have been few considerations regarding the underlying assumptions regarding the sources of inequality. All inequalities are bundled as…
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Planners Gonna Plan, but They Won’t Succeed
To the naive mind that can conceive of order only as the product of deliberate arrangement, it may seem absurd that in complex conditions order, and adaptation to the unknown, can be achieved more effectively by decentralizing decisions.
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How Salesmen Improve Our World
The salesman is the empathetic agent of change that helps us overcome our psychological reticence to part with our property in order to gain something that will genuinely improve our subjective well-being.
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Are Economists Basically Immoral?
Heyne’s message to ethicists and religious leaders is that their pronouncements on economic policy necessarily have to take economic theory and evidence seriously.
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Five Myths Propagated by Local-Food Activists
By promoting the increased production of local food that does not offer a compelling quality/price ratio while shunning modern production and processing technologies, activists ensured that our food supply would become more expensive, environmentally damaging, and hazardous to our health .
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The Struggle to Get Education Away from the State
Education reform is a perennial hot-button issue, with teachers’ unions like the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association spending vast sums to elect their preferred candidates and lobby them for reforms they find favorable. Interest in free-market alternatives to government education has increased since the middle of the 1950s, when Milton Friedman…
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The Wonderful Surprises of Comparative Advantage
Human society is permeated with comparative advantage. When each person specializes in performing that task, or small set of tasks, for which he or she has a comparative advantage — and then exchanges the fruits of this labor for goods and services produced by others — everyone who participates in this system of specialization and…
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•
Economics Is the Great Reality Check
Economics is a ubiquitous and conspicuous set of limits that cause everyone to buck up, cease our simpleton solipsism, face what’s true, become disciplined, get adaptable outside our embedded identity, live within our means, adopt solid values, and lead a good life.
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•
What Is Comparative Advantage?
An economic entity’s technical ability to produce some particular product is, by itself, irrelevant for determining if that entity should produce that product itself or, instead, acquire that product by first producing something else and then trading that something else for the product.
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•
How Kids Create Wealth By Trading Halloween Candy
The post-Halloween candy market is a commercial society of traders buying low and selling high, and it’s a microcosm of what happens when market exchange works well.
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•
Wealth Inequality: It’s Complicated
In the debates over wealth inequality that have followed the publication of The Triumph of Injustice (authored by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman), there have been intense discussions of the methodological choices made in the book. There have been few considerations regarding the underlying assumptions regarding the sources of inequality. All inequalities are bundled as…
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•
Planners Gonna Plan, but They Won’t Succeed
To the naive mind that can conceive of order only as the product of deliberate arrangement, it may seem absurd that in complex conditions order, and adaptation to the unknown, can be achieved more effectively by decentralizing decisions.
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•
How Salesmen Improve Our World
The salesman is the empathetic agent of change that helps us overcome our psychological reticence to part with our property in order to gain something that will genuinely improve our subjective well-being.
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•
Are Economists Basically Immoral?
Heyne’s message to ethicists and religious leaders is that their pronouncements on economic policy necessarily have to take economic theory and evidence seriously.