A collection of 54 posts
New mining frontiers are opening up in Greenland, Brazil, Tanzania, and Australia. In no time at all, historically speaking, Beijing’s advantage will disappear. That is a relief, but it is also a concern.
This won’t be Great Depression 2.0. But this trade war will cost America and the world many innovations and great prosperity.
How a house pricing guarantee could encourage homeowners to accept higher-density neighbourhoods.
Liberal democracies need to restore a climate of entrepreneurial opportunity and competition.
The neoliberal turn was a pragmatic response to failed economic intervention and yielded broadly positive results.
Its ability to churn out plausible sounding explanations for historical and social phenomena is part of Marxism’s core appeal. But its grand theoretical framework simply does not hold up.
President Trump’s protectionist policies are erratic, ill-defined, and incoherent.
Glenn Loury’s startlingly frank confessional memoir offers a complex portrait of a brilliant scholar and a profoundly flawed man.
Western societies stand on the brink of a great reversion towards a demographically and economically stagnant society reminiscent of the Dark Ages.
The Spanish tradition of limited government is older than the Magna Carta. Argentina will do well to revive it.
The payday-loan debate revisited.
The DINKs video isn’t shaping culture—it’s a cultural response to the rising opportunity cost of having children in free and prosperous societies.
His political ascent was meteoric, but classical liberalism has a storied history in Argentina.
The standard textbook model of monopoly economics only applies to the real world in a narrow range of circumstances.
Andrew Koppelman’s analysis of libertarianism is rich in detail and full of thought-provoking ideas.