Search results for: “walter williams”
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What Zimbabwe Can Learn From Chile: A Tale of Two Data Series
Economic freedom, like freedom in general, is inherently fragile. National institutions and attitudes can shift the ground quickly.
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Don’t Push the Policy Button!
Economists design “optimal” interventions with caveats and disclaimers. Politicians treat them like irresistible big red buttons.
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The Daily Economy’s Top Articles of 2025
From housing trends to government boondoggles and beyond, these were our most-read articles of 2025.
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Assassination Is the Enemy of Liberty
Debate is inefficient, messy, and noisy — but replacing speech with political violence risks shredding the fabric of society, and suppressing truth itself.
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Why ‘Eating the Rich’ Undermines Everyone’s Prosperity
Wealth accumulates where people create value, meaning great fortunes reflect service, not selfishness. That’s why taxing fortunes undermines prosperity.
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Division of Labor Makes Us Wealthy…And Fragile
“Our dependence on the ability to serve others in highly specialized ways is contingent on the rest of the system working constantly and efficiently. Our shrinking command of general competence puts us at greater risk.” ~Michael Munger
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The Surprising Beneficiaries of American Slavery
“The late economist Walter E. Williams said that slavery was the worst thing ever to happen to his ancestors, but the best thing ever to happen to him.” ~ Charley Hooper and David R. Henderson
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The Governmentalization of Social Affairs
“More liberty means less government, and less government means less miserableness, servility, fickleness, hypocrisy, denial, mendacity, baseness, and degeneracy. Liberal backbone checks the evil that is the governmentalization of social affairs.” ~ Daniel B. Klein
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Take the Money and Run: Taxpayers in AZ Will Fund Students, not Schools
“Arizona has turned a corner in its understanding of public education. The one-size-fits-all factory model won’t have an iron grip on the state’s whole concept of education – nor its budget.” ~ Laura Williams
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Black Liberation Through the Marketplace: A Review
“The authors infuse their work with suggestions towards institutional, policy, and legal changes that empower disadvantaged subgroups to work towards their own flourishing within the market mechanism.” ~ Tarnell Brown
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What Zimbabwe Can Learn From Chile: A Tale of Two Data Series
Economic freedom, like freedom in general, is inherently fragile. National institutions and attitudes can shift the ground quickly.
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•
Don’t Push the Policy Button!
Economists design “optimal” interventions with caveats and disclaimers. Politicians treat them like irresistible big red buttons.
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•
The Daily Economy’s Top Articles of 2025
From housing trends to government boondoggles and beyond, these were our most-read articles of 2025.
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•
Assassination Is the Enemy of Liberty
Debate is inefficient, messy, and noisy — but replacing speech with political violence risks shredding the fabric of society, and suppressing truth itself.
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•
Why ‘Eating the Rich’ Undermines Everyone’s Prosperity
Wealth accumulates where people create value, meaning great fortunes reflect service, not selfishness. That’s why taxing fortunes undermines prosperity.
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•
Division of Labor Makes Us Wealthy…And Fragile
“Our dependence on the ability to serve others in highly specialized ways is contingent on the rest of the system working constantly and efficiently. Our shrinking command of general competence puts us at greater risk.” ~Michael Munger
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The Surprising Beneficiaries of American Slavery
“The late economist Walter E. Williams said that slavery was the worst thing ever to happen to his ancestors, but the best thing ever to happen to him.” ~ Charley Hooper and David R. Henderson
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•
The Governmentalization of Social Affairs
“More liberty means less government, and less government means less miserableness, servility, fickleness, hypocrisy, denial, mendacity, baseness, and degeneracy. Liberal backbone checks the evil that is the governmentalization of social affairs.” ~ Daniel B. Klein
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Take the Money and Run: Taxpayers in AZ Will Fund Students, not Schools
“Arizona has turned a corner in its understanding of public education. The one-size-fits-all factory model won’t have an iron grip on the state’s whole concept of education – nor its budget.” ~ Laura Williams
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Black Liberation Through the Marketplace: A Review
“The authors infuse their work with suggestions towards institutional, policy, and legal changes that empower disadvantaged subgroups to work towards their own flourishing within the market mechanism.” ~ Tarnell Brown