Economic Growth
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Manufacturing Surged When Tariffs Were Lifted
Tariffs raised costs and manufacturing jobs disappeared. Now, the administration is declaring victory for partially filling the hole it dug.
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Economic Blockades: Protectionism As Punishment
The Trump administration calls economic isolation a weapon against Iran and a recipe for prosperity at home. Protectionism is a paradox.
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Rubble to Riches: Reckoning with West Germany’s Postwar Economic Miracle
Tobias Straumann’s new book explains how economic freedoms and currency reform helped West Germany outstrip not just the Soviet Socialist East, but many other nations, on its way to economic recovery.
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What Zohran Mamdani Could Learn From His Father
Mahmood Mamdani’s research showed why people often don’t behave the way central planners wish they would. His son faces a similar test in New York.
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‘Market Humanism’ Renames an Old Economic Insight: Cooperation
A new book suggests a modern marketing label for classical liberal ideas: individuals acting in markets are engines of human flourishing.
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Hidden from CPI, These Costs Are Eating Away at Real Wages
Official inflation calculations exclude taxes and asset prices. Add them in, and three decades of modest paycheck gains become losses.
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An Aging, Shrinking Population: Must a Smaller World Be Poorer?
Humanity is approaching an unprecedented demographic turn. Can productivity outrun population decline?
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The ‘Better and Worse’ of Stephanie Coontz’s Marriage History
Stephanie Coontz’s new book succeeds as a thoughtful history of modern marriage but misdiagnoses the economic forces reshaping it.
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Bono’s Hard-Won Lesson About Poverty
Aid may relieve immediate suffering, but only productivity, enterprise, and strong institutions can conquer poverty for good.
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Why CPI Ignores Homes, Stocks, and the Cost of Getting Ahead
Capturing only what households consume, inflation stats miss the assets they hope to own. Recent inflation has rewarded existing owners at the expense of aspiring ones.
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Manufacturing Surged When Tariffs Were Lifted
Tariffs raised costs and manufacturing jobs disappeared. Now, the administration is declaring victory for partially filling the hole it dug.
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Economic Blockades: Protectionism As Punishment
The Trump administration calls economic isolation a weapon against Iran and a recipe for prosperity at home. Protectionism is a paradox.
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Rubble to Riches: Reckoning with West Germany’s Postwar Economic Miracle
Tobias Straumann’s new book explains how economic freedoms and currency reform helped West Germany outstrip not just the Soviet Socialist East, but many other nations, on its way to economic recovery.
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What Zohran Mamdani Could Learn From His Father
Mahmood Mamdani’s research showed why people often don’t behave the way central planners wish they would. His son faces a similar test in New York.
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‘Market Humanism’ Renames an Old Economic Insight: Cooperation
A new book suggests a modern marketing label for classical liberal ideas: individuals acting in markets are engines of human flourishing.
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Hidden from CPI, These Costs Are Eating Away at Real Wages
Official inflation calculations exclude taxes and asset prices. Add them in, and three decades of modest paycheck gains become losses.
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An Aging, Shrinking Population: Must a Smaller World Be Poorer?
Humanity is approaching an unprecedented demographic turn. Can productivity outrun population decline?
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The ‘Better and Worse’ of Stephanie Coontz’s Marriage History
Stephanie Coontz’s new book succeeds as a thoughtful history of modern marriage but misdiagnoses the economic forces reshaping it.
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Bono’s Hard-Won Lesson About Poverty
Aid may relieve immediate suffering, but only productivity, enterprise, and strong institutions can conquer poverty for good.
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Why CPI Ignores Homes, Stocks, and the Cost of Getting Ahead
Capturing only what households consume, inflation stats miss the assets they hope to own. Recent inflation has rewarded existing owners at the expense of aspiring ones.