What about the benefits and costs of dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic?
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Let a Billion Preferences Bloom
There isn’t much room for diversity and dissent, however, when everything is decided politically. Mass customization and diversity are commercial society’s virtues. Mass regimentation and uniformity are political society’s vices. The stark contrast is clear in the proximity between Halloween and Election Day.
The Myth of the Failure of Capitalism
The nearly universal opinion expressed these days is that the economic crisis of recent years marks the end of capitalism. Capitalism allegedly has failed, has proven itself incapable of solving economic problems, and so mankind has no alternative, if it is to survive, than to make the transition to a planned economy, to socialism.
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Benefits vs. Costs of the Government Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
We should focus on shielding the elderly and people with comorbidities while allowing the young and healthy to associate with one another in order to build up immunities
The Real Meaning of the “Stimulus”: A 2.2 Trillion-Dollar Capital Consumption Program
The proper name for “government stimulus” is: “capital destruction.” It’s the unreplaced using up of the factors of production.
Professor Israel Kirzner on Entrepreneurship and The Market Process
These insights into the nature of the market process are part of Israel Kirzner’s lasting legacy to our understanding of the workings of the economic order.
Say’s Law versus Keynesian Economics
Say’s Law and Saysian economics go hand in hand with a political-economic-philosophical appreciation for capitalism – for rationality, the pursuit of self-interest, entrepreneurialism, profit-making, private property rights, the rule of law, and constitutionalism.
Video: Thomas Sowell on Wealth, Poverty, and Politics
Thomas Sowell discusses poverty around the world and in the United States. Poverty in America, he says, compared to the rest of the world, is not severe. Many poor people in poverty in the United States have one or two cars,...
Economics Reality: Good and Bad Economics
Economics is fun and simple. It’s made complicated by some economics professors. Let’s apply some simple tools of economics to reveal outright myths, lies and tricks.
Joseph A. Schumpeter: Entrepreneurship, Creative Destruction and Fatalism Over Capitalism
Joseph A. Schumpeter is identified with two related ideas, the notion of the innovative entrepreneur and the imagery of the competitive market as a process of creative destruction.
The Wonders of a Self-Regulating Free Market
The fact is, there is far more in the world that successfully manages and “regulates” itself without the controlling hand of the government than many of us pause to reflect on or understand.
In Defense of The Austrian School of Economics
If you approach Austrians economics from a Marxian-style dialectic, as Janek Wasserman does, then you will miss the entire point of the school of thought and its contribution to the science of economics.
What Is Comparative Advantage?
Your building your own deck would be worthwhile only if your cost of doing so is less than the cost of having someone else, such as Jones, build it for you.
Jean-Baptiste Say: An Economist in Troubled Times
To consume, men must first produce.
The Four Phases of the Great Depression
The Great Depression was not one, but four consecutive depressions that Professor Hans Sennholz has labeled as four “phases”: the business cycle; the disintegration of the world economy; the New Deal; and the Wagner Act.
Jean-Baptiste Say, Capitalism and Say’s “Law of Markets”
Say’s Law of Markets already included the answers to the questions against free markets with which the Keynesians attempted to challenge the efficacy of capitalism a century later.
Say’s Law and the Keynesian Revolution: How Macroeconomic Theory Lost Its Way by Steven Kates
Steven Kates refutes Keynes’s caricature of the classical economists. Ultimately it is always goods that are traded for goods. Say’s Law, properly understood, explains both what causes unemployment and how to solve it..
Wealth Tax Consumes Capital To Appease Envy
Amongst Thomas Piketty, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Jerry Yang, and Jeremy Corbyn a wealth tax is all the rage as a means to rectify “wealth inequality”. But what does it really do?
Shareholders, Not “Stakeholders”
So many CEOs know so little about economics that they don’t know that in a free market producing for the profit of their stockholders in and of itself implies producing for the benefit of everyone.
Hazony’s Tradition-Based Society Is Social Engineering
At any moment in time, the world seems to be going to hell in a handbasket. Manners are missing; ethics are being eliminated; culture is corrupted; social attitudes are supercilious; virtues are vanishing; literature is mostly licentious; industry and commerce are...
Laissez Faire vs. Interventionism
In eighteenth-century France the saying laissez faire, laissez passer was the formula into which some of the champions of the cause of liberty compressed their program. Their aim was the establishment of the unhampered market society. In order to attain this end they...
Capitalism is the Solution to the Problem of “Asymmetric Information”
It is capitalism and the competitive market process that generates solutions to the knowledge problems of the society, including the “informational asymmetry” that naturally follows from any developed social system of division of labor.
Marx and His Exploitation Theory
As the economic degree of capitalism rises, not only do profit margins and the rate of profit fall, but wage payments come into being and then rise both absolutely and relative to profits.
How Ayn Rand’s Philosophy of Objectivism Can Rescue Hayek’s Economics
In economics Hayek is a radical; but in philosophy, unlike Ayn Rand, Hayek is a conservative.