Free Markets
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The Link Between Prosperity and Freedom Is Even Stronger than You Think
Dictatorships or authoritarian regimes (which also tend to be economically unfree) often put a lot of pressure on their bureaucrats to develop the economy and increase output. Thus are their data positively biased.
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Twenty Crazy Beliefs on Economics and Politics
Why do so many American Progressives, fearing that rich people abuse state power, aim to reduce the riches of rich people, instead of the state power that Progressives admit is subject to being abused? Why do so many American Progressives wish to put even larger swathes of our lives under political control given their belief…
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The Politicization of Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift’s case isn’t about the power of private equity or the perfect workings of market capitalism. It doesn’t fit into any existing political paradigm. It is a dispute over enforced ownership rights that have been granted to the unownable.
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Proof That Tariffs Flood the Swamp
Recently talking from the Senate floor, Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) candidly acknowledged what most AIER readers have known for a long time: politicians are influenced by special interest groups, and, in many cases, this influence prevents them from doing the right thing. In this particular case, the senator revealed the great pushback he encountered when…
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The Most Beautiful Disruption in Media
You can have your Hulu, your Netflix, your Disney, your Amazon, your YouTube, your movies at the theater, or your dusty old books. Everyone gets to win in a vibrant market order, consumers and producers both.
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Lyft’s Job Access Program Shows How the Market Provides Help Government Can’t
Realizing that the ride-sharing app already had a great appeal among people in disadvantaged communities, Lyft took a step further.
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How to Ask for a Raise
If you want to renegotiate and ask for different terms, that should be seen as just doing business. If it works, great. If it does not, you have to choose whether to stay.
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We Need More Free-Market Experiments Now
An idea to disrupt cloistered markets, ideologically-induced psychological barriers, and suboptimal policies through radical innovation.
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The Solution to Blackouts and Wildfires in California
It is time to liberate electric utility customers and bring innovation back to the once innovative electric utility industry that was pioneered by great inventors and businessmen such as Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse.
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Why Women Workers Might Be Less Willing to Delegate
People love demographic generalization of the workplace because they simplify what is actually incomprehensibly complex. So the newest study of professional women was destined to go viral: “Women Are Less Likely to Delegate Than Men—and That Might Hurt Their Careers.” The study, part of a slew of workplace gender studies conducted by Columbia Business School,…
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The Link Between Prosperity and Freedom Is Even Stronger than You Think
Dictatorships or authoritarian regimes (which also tend to be economically unfree) often put a lot of pressure on their bureaucrats to develop the economy and increase output. Thus are their data positively biased.
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•
Twenty Crazy Beliefs on Economics and Politics
Why do so many American Progressives, fearing that rich people abuse state power, aim to reduce the riches of rich people, instead of the state power that Progressives admit is subject to being abused? Why do so many American Progressives wish to put even larger swathes of our lives under political control given their belief…
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The Politicization of Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift’s case isn’t about the power of private equity or the perfect workings of market capitalism. It doesn’t fit into any existing political paradigm. It is a dispute over enforced ownership rights that have been granted to the unownable.
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•
Proof That Tariffs Flood the Swamp
Recently talking from the Senate floor, Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) candidly acknowledged what most AIER readers have known for a long time: politicians are influenced by special interest groups, and, in many cases, this influence prevents them from doing the right thing. In this particular case, the senator revealed the great pushback he encountered when…
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•
The Most Beautiful Disruption in Media
You can have your Hulu, your Netflix, your Disney, your Amazon, your YouTube, your movies at the theater, or your dusty old books. Everyone gets to win in a vibrant market order, consumers and producers both.
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•
Lyft’s Job Access Program Shows How the Market Provides Help Government Can’t
Realizing that the ride-sharing app already had a great appeal among people in disadvantaged communities, Lyft took a step further.
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•
How to Ask for a Raise
If you want to renegotiate and ask for different terms, that should be seen as just doing business. If it works, great. If it does not, you have to choose whether to stay.
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•
We Need More Free-Market Experiments Now
An idea to disrupt cloistered markets, ideologically-induced psychological barriers, and suboptimal policies through radical innovation.
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•
The Solution to Blackouts and Wildfires in California
It is time to liberate electric utility customers and bring innovation back to the once innovative electric utility industry that was pioneered by great inventors and businessmen such as Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse.
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•
Why Women Workers Might Be Less Willing to Delegate
People love demographic generalization of the workplace because they simplify what is actually incomprehensibly complex. So the newest study of professional women was destined to go viral: “Women Are Less Likely to Delegate Than Men—and That Might Hurt Their Careers.” The study, part of a slew of workplace gender studies conducted by Columbia Business School,…