Dangerous Losers
It's not poverty that drives men to violence, but the experience of losing status.
Jason Manning
· 10 min read
Economics
A collection of 96 posts
The Emerging Female Wage Premium
Young women are now outearning young men; this structural shift has consequences that extend well beyond wages.
David Maywald
· 9 min read
The Roots of Recession
As an energy shock looms, a new book reframes recession as the product of historical circumstance, not cyclical inevitability.
Joel Kotkin
· 11 min read
Germany’s Cozy Catastrophe
The German state has been generous to its beneficiaries—but that largesse is becoming increasingly unsustainable.
Andreas Paul John
· 18 min read
The Housing Crisis Is Destroying Homeownership—and Undermining Democracy
Escalating house prices and density rules trap young people in renting, eroding homeownership—a key to democracy.
Wendell Cox, Joel Kotkin
· 12 min read
Capitalism’s Paradox
Why prosperity breeds guilt, how status incentives reward critique, and what happens when function is replaced by moral performance.
Sarah Wooten
· 5 min read
Self-Defeating “Sustainability”
The sustainable agriculture movement’s ideological opposition to biotechnology undermines genuine environmental progress and food security.
Henry I. Miller
· 6 min read
How Not to Develop a Country
The idea that we should redistribute wealth by fiat from prosperous to low-income and stagnating countries remains popular even though it is profoundly misguided.
Deepak Srinivasan, Rohit Shinde
· 14 min read
Risky, Costly, and Extremely Cold
Any invasion of Greenland would be a logistical nightmare with no economic upside.
Sean Welsh
· 9 min read
Fixing Central Bank Politicisation
Trump’s assault on the Federal Reserve demands a structural solution: rules-based monetary policy that protects central bank independence whilst delivering better economic results.
Jai Kedia
· 8 min read
The Warmth of Collectivism
Zohran Mamdani wants to institute “collectivist” governance, but NYC already has a collectivist problem—a coordinated veto system that blocks development and progress.
John Aziz
· 6 min read
Why Housing Is Becoming Neo-Feudal: The Collapse of Home Ownership
Why are households struggling to buy homes in advanced economies, and what does the erosion of ownership mean for inequality, family formation, and the resilience of liberal democracy?
Joel Kotkin, Zoe Sankey
· 10 min read
A Vindication of Bjorn Lomborg
Lomborg’s experience shows what happens when a researcher challenges a powerful narrative with inconvenient numbers.
Marian L. Tupy
· 7 min read
The Ingratitude of the Well-Fed
We need to cultivate an appreciation for the abundance that modernity has bestowed instead of taking it for granted.
Maarten Boudry
· 13 min read
Where Have All the Cultures Gone?
The homogenisation of culture begins with the loss of language.
Tristan S. Rapp
· 10 min read