Free Markets
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How the WeWork Mess Proves that Markets Work
WeWork is one of the most high profile examples of a once high-flying organization that was first humbled, and then dragged back to earth due to internal issues that eventually came to light.
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Massachusetts’ Addiction to Regulation Keeps Most Pot Sales on the Black Market
Massachusetts has not legalized cannabis products so much as entered the drug market via a handful of chosen franchisees, with the extra competitive advantage that you could be fined or jailed if you buy from the competition. Let freedom ring.
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Social Media’s Bumpy Ride to Better Ideas
Social media is a dynamic evolutionary process that can lead to better ideas, but the path often isn’t pretty.
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A Job Is Not Alienating; It Is Empowering
Beware: every theory that posits that your job is alienating is a ruse to draft you into a new form of collective identity in which you will have fewer choices.
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An Answer to That Viral Equality Meme
Free market capitalism naturally seeks ways to be inclusive by trying to attract a wider consumer base.
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Is There a Science of Progress?
Even if it proves to be an inexact science, the effort is worth undertaking.
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The FTC’s Strategy Against Facebook is Bad Economics
The theory that Facebook acquired Instagram and WhatsApp primarily to squelch future competition represents a view of antitrust that is simplistic and naive. It also endangers a startup business model that has produced incalculable benefits through innovation.
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Sometimes Helping People Is the Worst Thing You Can Do
The approach of unconditional help regardless of the results doesn’t work in our private lives. How much worse is it when taxpayers are paying the bill?
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Mises, Marx, and the High Art of a Rap Video
The proper framing of the terms of the debate is a remarkable achievement that fundamentally upsets the current political narrative. That’s what this video achieves.
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The Myth of American Middle-Class Stagnation
In 1975 a ten-cup drip coffee maker cost the ordinary American worker almost 8 hours of work time; today it costs that worker only 45 minutes.
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How the WeWork Mess Proves that Markets Work
WeWork is one of the most high profile examples of a once high-flying organization that was first humbled, and then dragged back to earth due to internal issues that eventually came to light.
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Massachusetts’ Addiction to Regulation Keeps Most Pot Sales on the Black Market
Massachusetts has not legalized cannabis products so much as entered the drug market via a handful of chosen franchisees, with the extra competitive advantage that you could be fined or jailed if you buy from the competition. Let freedom ring.
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Social Media’s Bumpy Ride to Better Ideas
Social media is a dynamic evolutionary process that can lead to better ideas, but the path often isn’t pretty.
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•
A Job Is Not Alienating; It Is Empowering
Beware: every theory that posits that your job is alienating is a ruse to draft you into a new form of collective identity in which you will have fewer choices.
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An Answer to That Viral Equality Meme
Free market capitalism naturally seeks ways to be inclusive by trying to attract a wider consumer base.
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Is There a Science of Progress?
Even if it proves to be an inexact science, the effort is worth undertaking.
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The FTC’s Strategy Against Facebook is Bad Economics
The theory that Facebook acquired Instagram and WhatsApp primarily to squelch future competition represents a view of antitrust that is simplistic and naive. It also endangers a startup business model that has produced incalculable benefits through innovation.
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•
Sometimes Helping People Is the Worst Thing You Can Do
The approach of unconditional help regardless of the results doesn’t work in our private lives. How much worse is it when taxpayers are paying the bill?
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•
Mises, Marx, and the High Art of a Rap Video
The proper framing of the terms of the debate is a remarkable achievement that fundamentally upsets the current political narrative. That’s what this video achieves.
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•
The Myth of American Middle-Class Stagnation
In 1975 a ten-cup drip coffee maker cost the ordinary American worker almost 8 hours of work time; today it costs that worker only 45 minutes.