History
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Help AIER Make the Next Economics Rap Battle Video
The video AIER is putting together with the highest professional standards seeks to present both their views fairly and accurately but in a way that it is entertaining and informative. It will inspire further study and a real dedication to ideas.
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Why Bias Will Always Be a Part of Economics
Because economics is more complex than most of what’s studied in the natural sciences, no set of rules of inquiry will ever fully eliminate the need for judgment calls by the researcher. And judgment calls are where our biases truly have teeth.
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The Pinochet Slur Against Free Market Scholars
Why does untruthful scholarship so often take root, and even become a “consensus” interpretation despite its factual deficiencies?
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Read Hayek As If Your Children’s Lives Depend On It
Hayek worked in the context of the near death of civilization in the world wars, near-universal enthusiasm for socialism among the intellectuals, and repeated exhortations in the face of periodic economic troubles that this time really was the Final Crisis of Capitalism.
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What 19th-Century Foreign Writers Said about American Freedom and Prosperity
In the face of the history and practice throughout the ages of tyranny and despotism, monarchy and aristocracy, America was this self-declared and self-established system of representative, republican government.
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Another Stack of Books You Should Read
One lesson you should take from that is that as much as this sounds like the takeaway point from a bad high school commencement address, the end of your formal schooling is just the beginning of a life of sustained inquiry.
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Cathedrals, Seen and Unseen
What the Notre-Dame fire of 2019 should teach us is that civilization is more fragile than we want to believe. We dare not take it for granted. The fires come when and from a place we least expect, and the damage is often irrecoverable.
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What Happened to Manners and What to Do About It
The court of manners has been replaced by the court of law.
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Revolution and Counterrevolution
The conceptual breakdown of revolution/counterrevolution is vastly better than any modern typology that too often distracts from the key issue: the place of power in our lives.
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The Road to Serfdom at 75 Years Young
Hayek still speaks to us today about the nature of democratic ways of relating to the rule of law, the structure of government, the role of public policy, and the promise of an international order of cosmopolitan liberalism.
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Help AIER Make the Next Economics Rap Battle Video
The video AIER is putting together with the highest professional standards seeks to present both their views fairly and accurately but in a way that it is entertaining and informative. It will inspire further study and a real dedication to ideas.
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•
Why Bias Will Always Be a Part of Economics
Because economics is more complex than most of what’s studied in the natural sciences, no set of rules of inquiry will ever fully eliminate the need for judgment calls by the researcher. And judgment calls are where our biases truly have teeth.
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•
The Pinochet Slur Against Free Market Scholars
Why does untruthful scholarship so often take root, and even become a “consensus” interpretation despite its factual deficiencies?
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•
Read Hayek As If Your Children’s Lives Depend On It
Hayek worked in the context of the near death of civilization in the world wars, near-universal enthusiasm for socialism among the intellectuals, and repeated exhortations in the face of periodic economic troubles that this time really was the Final Crisis of Capitalism.
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What 19th-Century Foreign Writers Said about American Freedom and Prosperity
In the face of the history and practice throughout the ages of tyranny and despotism, monarchy and aristocracy, America was this self-declared and self-established system of representative, republican government.
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Another Stack of Books You Should Read
One lesson you should take from that is that as much as this sounds like the takeaway point from a bad high school commencement address, the end of your formal schooling is just the beginning of a life of sustained inquiry.
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•
Cathedrals, Seen and Unseen
What the Notre-Dame fire of 2019 should teach us is that civilization is more fragile than we want to believe. We dare not take it for granted. The fires come when and from a place we least expect, and the damage is often irrecoverable.
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•
What Happened to Manners and What to Do About It
The court of manners has been replaced by the court of law.
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•
Revolution and Counterrevolution
The conceptual breakdown of revolution/counterrevolution is vastly better than any modern typology that too often distracts from the key issue: the place of power in our lives.
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•
The Road to Serfdom at 75 Years Young
Hayek still speaks to us today about the nature of democratic ways of relating to the rule of law, the structure of government, the role of public policy, and the promise of an international order of cosmopolitan liberalism.