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Born This Way?

{ Posted on Apr 10 2012 by Jonathan Haidt }
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As a nation, we’ve made great strides overcoming our differences. North vs. South, Catholic vs. Protestant, black vs. white. These divisions once brought forth extraordinary animosity. Even male vs. female had its day in the sun, for those of us old enough to remember ...Read More »

Born This Way?

{ Posted on Apr 10 2012 by Jonathan Haidt }
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Categories : All, Reason Magazine - Economics
As a nation, we’ve made great strides overcoming our differences. North vs. South, Catholic vs. Protestant, black vs. white. These divisions once brought forth extraordinary animosity. Even male vs. female had its day in the sun, for those of us old enough to remember ...Read More »

Tidequistadors In Search of Sound Money

{ Posted on Apr 06 2012 by Shikha Dalmia }
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Over the past few months, the police force in Prince George’s County, Maryland has been dealing with a strange rash of robberies. Thieves have been going into grocery stores and drug stores, loading their carts up with stacks of money, and then rushing out ...Read More »

5 Keys to Restoring America’s Prosperity: John B. Taylor

{ Posted on Apr 03 2012 by Katherine Mangu-Ward }
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In his new book, First Principles: Five Keys to Restoring America's Prosperity, Stanford University professor of economics John B. Taylor, details the not-so-secret ingredients to rebuilding American's economic future: predictable policy, rule of law, strong incentives, reliance on markets, and a clearly limited role ...Read More »

"You’re not stabilizing the market. You’re creating more chaos."

{ Posted on Apr 03 2012 by Tim Cavanaugh }
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It's only taken six years to learn, but the lesson may finally be sinking in: Public policy designed to keep bad borrowers in homes they don't want to pay for has been a disaster.  The newest mainstream media support for this heretical idea is ...Read More »

How to Think Like the Ruling Class

{ Posted on Apr 01 2012 by Sheldon Richman }
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In the beginning ruling classes had a problem. It will be familiar to those acquainted with the Austrian critique of central economic planning: Rulers could not know what they needed to know to do the job they wanted to do. Societies, even seemingly primitive ...Read More »

Recovering America: Earning Less, Spending More, $6.7 Trillion Poorer

{ Posted on Mar 31 2012 by Tim Cavanaugh }
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Since Ben Bernanke the hero saved the global economy, things have been coming up roses for, well, nobody.  The Department of Commerce reports that Americans are spending far more than they are making. That’s good news, according to CNN:  [PNC economist Stuart] Hoffman said he ...Read More »

Better Off Dead

{ Posted on Mar 28 2012 by Shikha Dalmia }
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A stainless steel casket with cherry veneer inserts can set you back more than a foreclosed townhouse in the exurbs of Las Vegas. Then there’s the embalming, the funeral service, the cemetery plot, the headstone, the charge for digging a grave, the charge ...Read More »

Minimalist Economics Posters

{ Posted on Mar 26 2012 by Katherine Mangu-Ward }
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NPR's Planet Money made up some posters illustrating economic concepts, minimalist propaganda style. Then they had readers submit designs. Here is the latest (and best) round: minimalist econ posters by actual economists. The winner:   Click though for the inevitable invisible hand humor. Read More »

Libertarianism Does Not Equal Selfishness

{ Posted on Mar 23 2012 by Sheldon Richman }
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Libertarianism and one of its pillars, free-market economics, get an unfair rap for its alleged preoccupation with the pursuit of wealth. It’s unfair because, while wealth and economic growth are important, the philosophy is about much more: human flourishing through freedom and its natural ...Read More »
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