In the past, I’ve poked fun at progressives who don’t seem to know what they want. The wealth tax on luxury yachts was repealed partly at the behest of progressive politicians that worried it might cost jobs in the yacht building industry. But unless you...
Look over the Framers’ shoulders as they try to create “a more perfect union.” See what it’s taken to move us to a point closer to Jefferson’s ideal of all persons being equal under the law and explore why having the rules for our government...
Freedom is hard-earned and easily lost. Our Constitution has changed over the more than 200 years since its creation. How did we create a “more perfect” union, or for that matter, a “more perfect” Constitution? Learn how the Constitution has changed over the years to...
Is it perfect? No. But the U.S. Constitution is an amazing document and system, emulated in many countries, worth understanding, discussing… and preserving for the generations to follow. Explore how our liberty is slowly being lost and what threatens our Constitution in the third episode...
Perhaps the most important element of James Buchanan’s contribution to constitutional economics is his differentiation between pre- and post-constitutional levels of decision-making. At first glance, a tension may appear between those two levels of analysis. In one, the rules by which we live are up...
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About a month ago, Russ Roberts and I had a great conversation about virus, vaccine, and tests for the Econ Talk podcast, and the free market approach. It's out now, here for the podcast, or the below embed and here video on YouTube. The podcast...
There’s certainly something poetic about my existence being the son of two immigrant families that fled authoritarian regimes in Asia. My father’s side came from Taiwan, which at the time was ruled by a Fascist-Leninist military regime known as the Kuomintang. They ruled the island...
With COVID-19 ravaging the country and government pandemic lockdowns devastating our economy, the national debt has understandably slipped to the back of many Americans’ minds. But the federal government continues to fall deeper into the red at a dramatically accelerating rate. Free-market economists interviewed by...
Professor Frank Gunter has learned that, the next time Lehigh University asks him to talk about poverty, he should keep his mouth shut. Earlier this year, Lehigh asked its business school faculty to offer counsel to the Biden administration in a series of short “kitchen...