Economic Education
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Can America Withstand the Socialist Left’s Assault?
Socialist experiments fail, routinely and often horribly. So Marxists took over institutions in an attempt to fool the masses.
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Economics in Four Words: Everything Has a Cost
We shortchange America’s children, and our future, if we don’t teach students the most valuable lesson of all.
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Benjamin Graham and How to Invest Like a Legend
A new edition of the investing classic offers strategy beyond luck: preparation, discipline, and knowing when to break your own rules.
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Debunking the Three Best Arguments for Tariffs
Tariffs can’t bring back jobs and raise significant revenue at the same time. In fact, they’re unlikely to do either.
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The Problem With Retaliatory Protectionism
Whether subsidizing our own producers or punishing those abroad, tariffs inevitably become handouts to the politically powerful.
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Want Progress? Lose the Spoon Jobs
Productivity means learning to do more work with less labor. The only way to gain jobs is to lose jobs.
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‘Asian Drama’: Gunnar Myrdal’s Flawed Masterpiece
The economist’s disdain for dogma and appetite for nuance led him to warn “scholars possess an illusion of knowledge worse than ignorance.”
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Protectionism and the Fallacy of Composition
Protectionism can’t enrich the country as a whole, only boost certain individuals and industries while impoverishing the rest.
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Capping Credit Card Interest Rates is a Bipartisan Blunder
Interests rates reflect the risk of lending. Under price controls, card companies will reduce credit limits and lend to fewer borrowers.
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Trouble Tax: We All Pay a Time Price for Bureaucratic Dysfunction
Bureaucracies save money by wasting your time. Government bureaucracies can compel you to waste it.
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Can America Withstand the Socialist Left’s Assault?
Socialist experiments fail, routinely and often horribly. So Marxists took over institutions in an attempt to fool the masses.
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•
Economics in Four Words: Everything Has a Cost
We shortchange America’s children, and our future, if we don’t teach students the most valuable lesson of all.
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•
Benjamin Graham and How to Invest Like a Legend
A new edition of the investing classic offers strategy beyond luck: preparation, discipline, and knowing when to break your own rules.
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•
Debunking the Three Best Arguments for Tariffs
Tariffs can’t bring back jobs and raise significant revenue at the same time. In fact, they’re unlikely to do either.
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•
The Problem With Retaliatory Protectionism
Whether subsidizing our own producers or punishing those abroad, tariffs inevitably become handouts to the politically powerful.
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•
Want Progress? Lose the Spoon Jobs
Productivity means learning to do more work with less labor. The only way to gain jobs is to lose jobs.
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•
‘Asian Drama’: Gunnar Myrdal’s Flawed Masterpiece
The economist’s disdain for dogma and appetite for nuance led him to warn “scholars possess an illusion of knowledge worse than ignorance.”
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•
Protectionism and the Fallacy of Composition
Protectionism can’t enrich the country as a whole, only boost certain individuals and industries while impoverishing the rest.
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•
Capping Credit Card Interest Rates is a Bipartisan Blunder
Interests rates reflect the risk of lending. Under price controls, card companies will reduce credit limits and lend to fewer borrowers.
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•
Trouble Tax: We All Pay a Time Price for Bureaucratic Dysfunction
Bureaucracies save money by wasting your time. Government bureaucracies can compel you to waste it.