Daily Economy
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Managing Change Is Harder Than It Seems
Social systems must be able to serve people in periods of stability, by creating predictable patterns of rules and expectations, and to serve people in times of disruption, by fostering innovation and entrepreneurship without breaking down.
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Here Is Proof that the Leftist Tilt on Campus Has Gotten Dramatically Worse
Faculty radicalism is on the rise, and that’s bad news for the intellectual climate on campus.
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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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This Duke Dropout Could Reinvigorate the Study of Anthropology
Would it be a tragedy if Williamson were an anthropology virtuoso who, in dropping out of Duke and taking his talents to the NBA, eschewed a career of path-breaking, world-rocking anthropological scholarship? No.
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Strong GDP Headline Masks First-Quarter Weakness
A strong headline gain in first-quarter growth in real gross domestic product masked the poor performance of domestic demand.
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Americans on Food Stamps Can Shop Online Thanks to Walmart and Amazon
Private enterprise has long provided the government with efficient solutions, even if the government itself undermines private efforts by using technology ineffectively.
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If You Try to Quit the Habit, We’ll Tax You
Unfortunately, these foolish mistakes will be made on the back of smokers who may get to switch away from tobacco.
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In Praise of an Ideology of Freedom
Because free markets typically give to producers as well as to consumers strong incentives to use their unique bits of knowledge in ways that promote the general welfare, that both the knowledge problem and the incentive problem exist at all levels of government decision-making means that what is warranted is a strong and general presumption against…
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The Bow Tie Built Wall Street
The bow tie helped build the early years of Wall Street. Maybe it can assist in re-building the ethos of prosperity and success in the 21st century.
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We Can Build the Roads, and Other Things Too
Roads are emphatically not public goods, and many other nations have solved the problems of road use and financing by decentralizing provision and control.
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Managing Change Is Harder Than It Seems
Social systems must be able to serve people in periods of stability, by creating predictable patterns of rules and expectations, and to serve people in times of disruption, by fostering innovation and entrepreneurship without breaking down.
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•
Here Is Proof that the Leftist Tilt on Campus Has Gotten Dramatically Worse
Faculty radicalism is on the rise, and that’s bad news for the intellectual climate on campus.
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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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This Duke Dropout Could Reinvigorate the Study of Anthropology
Would it be a tragedy if Williamson were an anthropology virtuoso who, in dropping out of Duke and taking his talents to the NBA, eschewed a career of path-breaking, world-rocking anthropological scholarship? No.
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•
Strong GDP Headline Masks First-Quarter Weakness
A strong headline gain in first-quarter growth in real gross domestic product masked the poor performance of domestic demand.
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•
Americans on Food Stamps Can Shop Online Thanks to Walmart and Amazon
Private enterprise has long provided the government with efficient solutions, even if the government itself undermines private efforts by using technology ineffectively.
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•
If You Try to Quit the Habit, We’ll Tax You
Unfortunately, these foolish mistakes will be made on the back of smokers who may get to switch away from tobacco.
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•
In Praise of an Ideology of Freedom
Because free markets typically give to producers as well as to consumers strong incentives to use their unique bits of knowledge in ways that promote the general welfare, that both the knowledge problem and the incentive problem exist at all levels of government decision-making means that what is warranted is a strong and general presumption against…
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•
The Bow Tie Built Wall Street
The bow tie helped build the early years of Wall Street. Maybe it can assist in re-building the ethos of prosperity and success in the 21st century.
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•
We Can Build the Roads, and Other Things Too
Roads are emphatically not public goods, and many other nations have solved the problems of road use and financing by decentralizing provision and control.