Economic Education
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Solar Tariffs Are a Mistake
“Tariff extensions burden the US solar market with slowed growth and exemplify yet another case against outdated trade policies. In the words of Gabriella Beaumont-Smith, the US should ‘let the sun set on solar tariffs.'” ~ Dorothy Chan
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On Human Responsibility
“We are indeed smart and reasonable, but typically only when we each personally experience, in unambiguous ways, a significant portion of the material costs and benefits of each of our choices.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux
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Uncomplicating a Complicated World: The Shining Legacy of Walter E. Williams
“Walter Williams was vastly instrumental in showing us that the best solutions to the racial problems that bedevil us don’t come from the government who all too often caused a problem in the first place.” ~ Tarnell Brown
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Not So Fast on the Fast Act
“The fact that so many workers in the industry have been unwilling to voluntarily ‘buy’ the union agenda for themselves is not a reason for giving unions more power, but is reason to question their claims that they will improve workers’ lives.” ~ Gary M. Galles
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The Real Problem with PPP Loans
“If you love jobs you can’t hate the individuals whose ideas and capital commitments make work possible. If the PPP money had to go somewhere, it was best that it went to those who paid the taxes in the first place.” ~ John Tamny
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Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich, Eh? Four Canadian Innovators and Their Achievements
“These are hardly the stories of hardened enemies of society. Their ‘crimes’ are like those of the American Robber Barons: They found new ways to give people goods and services they wanted at prices they were willing to pay.” ~ Art Carden
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Business Leaders Build Trust, Politicians Compel Compliance
“While pursuing their interests, business leaders have an incentive to serve the welfare of others. Business leaders challenge their assumptions. Politicians act on unexamined assumptions and compel others to obey.” ~ Barry Brownstein
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Misjudging Nudging
“The problem is not that we are allowed to make too many of our own choices. The problem is government, and the real solution is the opposite of what nudgers propose: expanding liberty.” ~ Gary M. Galles
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Efficiency Means More than Using the Existing Stock of Resources Well
“In an open market economy, the stock of resources will never be fixed. The size and contents of that stock will change over time and that change is appropriately reckoned to be a result of the economic system.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux
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The Democracy Illusion
“America is already far beyond what can be justified as advancing our mutual well-being. And our government seems determined to double down on how far it oversteps, a strategy which necessarily shrinks liberty, and the benefits only liberty can provide.” ~ Gary M. Galles
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Solar Tariffs Are a Mistake
“Tariff extensions burden the US solar market with slowed growth and exemplify yet another case against outdated trade policies. In the words of Gabriella Beaumont-Smith, the US should ‘let the sun set on solar tariffs.'” ~ Dorothy Chan
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On Human Responsibility
“We are indeed smart and reasonable, but typically only when we each personally experience, in unambiguous ways, a significant portion of the material costs and benefits of each of our choices.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux
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Uncomplicating a Complicated World: The Shining Legacy of Walter E. Williams
“Walter Williams was vastly instrumental in showing us that the best solutions to the racial problems that bedevil us don’t come from the government who all too often caused a problem in the first place.” ~ Tarnell Brown
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Not So Fast on the Fast Act
“The fact that so many workers in the industry have been unwilling to voluntarily ‘buy’ the union agenda for themselves is not a reason for giving unions more power, but is reason to question their claims that they will improve workers’ lives.” ~ Gary M. Galles
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The Real Problem with PPP Loans
“If you love jobs you can’t hate the individuals whose ideas and capital commitments make work possible. If the PPP money had to go somewhere, it was best that it went to those who paid the taxes in the first place.” ~ John Tamny
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Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich, Eh? Four Canadian Innovators and Their Achievements
“These are hardly the stories of hardened enemies of society. Their ‘crimes’ are like those of the American Robber Barons: They found new ways to give people goods and services they wanted at prices they were willing to pay.” ~ Art Carden
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Business Leaders Build Trust, Politicians Compel Compliance
“While pursuing their interests, business leaders have an incentive to serve the welfare of others. Business leaders challenge their assumptions. Politicians act on unexamined assumptions and compel others to obey.” ~ Barry Brownstein
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Misjudging Nudging
“The problem is not that we are allowed to make too many of our own choices. The problem is government, and the real solution is the opposite of what nudgers propose: expanding liberty.” ~ Gary M. Galles
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Efficiency Means More than Using the Existing Stock of Resources Well
“In an open market economy, the stock of resources will never be fixed. The size and contents of that stock will change over time and that change is appropriately reckoned to be a result of the economic system.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux
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The Democracy Illusion
“America is already far beyond what can be justified as advancing our mutual well-being. And our government seems determined to double down on how far it oversteps, a strategy which necessarily shrinks liberty, and the benefits only liberty can provide.” ~ Gary M. Galles