Economic Education
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How Government Ruined Higher Education
Education suffers from the same dilemma as state-run health care: the potential for cost saving remains unfulfilled since no incentives for efficiency exist. In order to get the subsidies and the other benefits from government, the universities must adhere to specific bureaucratic rules.
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We Should Celebrate Diversity in Wealth Too
Why are diversity, variety, and differences celebrated and respected in most realms of human life except in the realm of wealth?
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What Self-Ownership Means and Why It Matters
It’s not that we as a humane culture reject the idea of self-ownership. It’s that we don’t take it very seriously in our politics. Everyone believes it; no political system practices it.
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AIER’s Best of 2018
This year AIER has published a constant stream of outstanding content from some of the best writers in the social sciences. The range is remarkable: current commentary, deep research, historical material, pure theory, logical analytics, and so much more.
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AIER, This Year and Next
The atmosphere at AIER makes for a welcome contrast with the civic culture of division and anger that dominates politics and mainstream news. We are focused on the long term, and on truth and integrity as the desiderata of intellectual value.
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Millennials Want to Buy Homes, but Student-Loan Debt Is Not Letting Them
This makes millennials the first generation in a while to be forced to postpone saving for homes simply because their student loans take up so much of their income. No wonder the growing debt related to higher education has now achieved “crisis” levels.
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They Are Coming for Your Paper Towels
They want us to use rags, sponges, and mops again for all our small spills in the kitchen? Forget it. We don’t want cross contamination. We don’t want stinky sponges around our food. We don’t want to drag out buckets and rags just to remove that spilled milk on the counter. We don’t need a…
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A Border Wall Will Worsen the Drug Problem
The increased violence near the US borders is the result of the current drug prohibition and will likely inflame with further prohibitory measures.
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How Self Interest Builds Prosperity and Community
Markets guided by prices daily lead each of us to share happily and abundantly with each other despite the reality that we are, to each other, mostly strangers. Familiarity, affection, and brotherly love are virtuous feelings but these feelings do not contribute as reliably to our material well being as does market exchange.
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The Political Economy of Virtue Signaling
Since neither politician, activist, nor voter are held responsible for our actions when a policy goes wrong, blame (or praise for that matter) is also highly distributed. This distribution of blame then diminishes the responsibility of those who might plausibly be held most culpable for the bad consequences.
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How Government Ruined Higher Education
Education suffers from the same dilemma as state-run health care: the potential for cost saving remains unfulfilled since no incentives for efficiency exist. In order to get the subsidies and the other benefits from government, the universities must adhere to specific bureaucratic rules.
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•
We Should Celebrate Diversity in Wealth Too
Why are diversity, variety, and differences celebrated and respected in most realms of human life except in the realm of wealth?
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•
What Self-Ownership Means and Why It Matters
It’s not that we as a humane culture reject the idea of self-ownership. It’s that we don’t take it very seriously in our politics. Everyone believes it; no political system practices it.
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•
AIER’s Best of 2018
This year AIER has published a constant stream of outstanding content from some of the best writers in the social sciences. The range is remarkable: current commentary, deep research, historical material, pure theory, logical analytics, and so much more.
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•
AIER, This Year and Next
The atmosphere at AIER makes for a welcome contrast with the civic culture of division and anger that dominates politics and mainstream news. We are focused on the long term, and on truth and integrity as the desiderata of intellectual value.
-
•
Millennials Want to Buy Homes, but Student-Loan Debt Is Not Letting Them
This makes millennials the first generation in a while to be forced to postpone saving for homes simply because their student loans take up so much of their income. No wonder the growing debt related to higher education has now achieved “crisis” levels.
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•
They Are Coming for Your Paper Towels
They want us to use rags, sponges, and mops again for all our small spills in the kitchen? Forget it. We don’t want cross contamination. We don’t want stinky sponges around our food. We don’t want to drag out buckets and rags just to remove that spilled milk on the counter. We don’t need a…
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•
A Border Wall Will Worsen the Drug Problem
The increased violence near the US borders is the result of the current drug prohibition and will likely inflame with further prohibitory measures.
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•
How Self Interest Builds Prosperity and Community
Markets guided by prices daily lead each of us to share happily and abundantly with each other despite the reality that we are, to each other, mostly strangers. Familiarity, affection, and brotherly love are virtuous feelings but these feelings do not contribute as reliably to our material well being as does market exchange.
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•
The Political Economy of Virtue Signaling
Since neither politician, activist, nor voter are held responsible for our actions when a policy goes wrong, blame (or praise for that matter) is also highly distributed. This distribution of blame then diminishes the responsibility of those who might plausibly be held most culpable for the bad consequences.