Companies ought to answer for their commitment to and advocacy of divisive political positions. Read the Full Article here: >Capital Record | National Review...
There’s less disagreement than meets the eye between myself and my anonymous friend at the University of Texas. He’s in blockquotes, I’m not. Point-by-point: I respectfully disagree with Bryan’s recent post on anti-Communism and “anti-racism.” I believe he falls into a classic false equivalence trap; just...
Chair Rulli, Vice Chair Lang, Ranking Member Sykes, and all distinguished members of the Senate Small Business and Economic Opportunity Committee: Thank you for inviting me to testify on the regulation of barbers and cosmetologists in Ohio. I am a professor of economics and director of...
I’m told that during Nixon’s New Economic Policy (NEP) price control regime, which a few years ago public policy scholars exposed as a cynical bid for Tricky Dick’s re-election in 1972, the nightly news regularly reported on new price controls, moved on to other news,...
A friend recently asked me how I can be so positive about the world’s progress yet so desperately pessimistic about the long-lasting horrors that will come from last year’s authoritarian power grab. And it’s true: it’s a dissonance I often struggle with – the joy at...
A communist revolutionary was giving a speech one day about the glorious future in front of the people. “After the revolution,” he said, “the land will flow with milk and honey!” A lady in the middle of the crowd piped up and said “What if...
A controversial new law in California requires publicly traded companies headquartered in the state to include at least one woman on their board of directors. Supporters of those types of laws even contend that gender quotas could boost firm profitability. However, the literature indicates that gender quotas...
(Don Boudreaux) TweetHere’s a video that accompanies my and Randy Holcombe’s new book, The Essential James Buchanan. This one is on government debt. (And here’s the chapter on debt from the book.) Read the Full Article here: >Cafe HayekCafe Hayek...
A commonplace justification for the lockdowns and other Covid-19 restrictions imposed over the past 15 months is this: SARS-CoV-2 poses a threat to humanity that differs categorically from any of the many threats that we routinely encounter. Confronting a categorically unique monster is said to...