Daily Economy
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Business Ethics and Morality of the Marketplace
Who do people consider to be less ethical or honest than either telemarketers or used car salesman? If you said Washington politicians, you’d be right on the button. According to Gallup News Services, members of Congress are right at the bottom of perceived ethical behavior and honesty. Every year Gallup issues the results of a…
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How Many People Must Die to Fix the Planet?
Scholars claiming the mantle of scientific expertise have enlisted apocalyptic fears of a coming “population crisis” to advance sweeping programs of social engineering as a way to alter the course.
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The Most Important Concept Mises Taught Me
Key among the basic concepts of Austrian economics (a term that Mises rarely used; he preferred just “economics” or more broadly, “praxeology”) is the concept of methodological individualism. This has been the most important of Mises’ basic concepts in my personal life over the fifty years since I met Mises in person and began my…
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The Unbearable Drabness of Command Economies
In command economies, you get what you get and you hope that it fits.
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Suffixing Industrial Policy with “2.0” Doesn’t Make It Credible
When and to the extent that trade and markets are free, Americans benefit from innovation no matter where it occurs.
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The Soul of Economics Is the Market Process
The process of economic change is about how economic actors invest to alleviate the constraints they face by reducing transaction costs in order to grow richer.
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The State Is Not Your Proxy
Leave aside every other problem of socialism (such as how it can rationally manage an economic process or achieve perfect material equality), and you are still left with the massive problem of power.
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It’s a Disservice to Urge Young People To Become Entrepreneurs
The legend of the twenty-something business wunderkind is everywhere in pop culture. Here’s the problem. The data are in. It turns out that the whole thing is a gigantic myth.
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Retail Spending Suggests Caution
Core retail sales were weak in October adding to concern about the economy. However, continued economic expansion remains the most likely path.
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The Great Lesson of Vision Fund
A central plan is not a business plan. Even a private sector central plan is doomed to fail.
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Business Ethics and Morality of the Marketplace
Who do people consider to be less ethical or honest than either telemarketers or used car salesman? If you said Washington politicians, you’d be right on the button. According to Gallup News Services, members of Congress are right at the bottom of perceived ethical behavior and honesty. Every year Gallup issues the results of a…
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How Many People Must Die to Fix the Planet?
Scholars claiming the mantle of scientific expertise have enlisted apocalyptic fears of a coming “population crisis” to advance sweeping programs of social engineering as a way to alter the course.
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•
The Most Important Concept Mises Taught Me
Key among the basic concepts of Austrian economics (a term that Mises rarely used; he preferred just “economics” or more broadly, “praxeology”) is the concept of methodological individualism. This has been the most important of Mises’ basic concepts in my personal life over the fifty years since I met Mises in person and began my…
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The Unbearable Drabness of Command Economies
In command economies, you get what you get and you hope that it fits.
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•
Suffixing Industrial Policy with “2.0” Doesn’t Make It Credible
When and to the extent that trade and markets are free, Americans benefit from innovation no matter where it occurs.
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•
The Soul of Economics Is the Market Process
The process of economic change is about how economic actors invest to alleviate the constraints they face by reducing transaction costs in order to grow richer.
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•
The State Is Not Your Proxy
Leave aside every other problem of socialism (such as how it can rationally manage an economic process or achieve perfect material equality), and you are still left with the massive problem of power.
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•
It’s a Disservice to Urge Young People To Become Entrepreneurs
The legend of the twenty-something business wunderkind is everywhere in pop culture. Here’s the problem. The data are in. It turns out that the whole thing is a gigantic myth.
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•
Retail Spending Suggests Caution
Core retail sales were weak in October adding to concern about the economy. However, continued economic expansion remains the most likely path.
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•
The Great Lesson of Vision Fund
A central plan is not a business plan. Even a private sector central plan is doomed to fail.