Winners and Losers: The Global Economy After COVID Taking advantage of the post-pandemic era may start with securing national health but will depend over time on creating better conditions for adaptive grassroots businesses. Joel Kotkin and Hügo Krüger 4 Jun 2021 · 11 min read
Revisiting the Simon-Ehrlich Wager 40 Years On The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (war, famine, pestilence, and death) have not completely disappeared—that would be a miracle, not progress. But the world is incomparably richer than it was just two centuries ago. Marian L. Tupy and Gale L. Pooley 13 Oct 2020 · 8 min read
Will Workers' Wages Ever Go Up Again? With the threat of plant closures hanging over negotiations like the sword of Damocles, union priorities have shifted from bargaining for wage increases to bargaining for job and pension security. Jeff Rubin 25 Sep 2020 · 9 min read
Towards a Better Urbanism The core city will retain its appeal, but to stay safe, “social distancing” will likely curtail the once boisterous streetscape with its capacity for casual contacts, unique shops, and restaurants. Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky 14 May 2020 · 12 min read
Is Democracy Compatible with Extreme Inequality? Material benefits can always be translated into political power because the political world has always been interwoven with the cultural world. Chang Che 8 Feb 2020 · 8 min read
Why UBI Ought to Appeal to Conservatives Republicans balk at the idea of UBI because it seems like an extreme version of your standard government handout. But it isn’t. Cody Kommers 20 Nov 2019 · 6 min read
Gates Derangement Syndrome Isn’t this a debate worth having without an avalanche of bad faith and scornful remarks about how we “can’t even trust Bill Gates to put his desire for a better world above his self-preservational plute drive”? Matt Johnson 15 Nov 2019 · 11 min read
The End of Aspiration The drive against bourgeois aspirations underpins an emerging neo-feudal system in which people remain renters for life. Joel Kotkin 10 Apr 2019 · 8 min read
The Economic Illiteracy of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez It is hard to emphasize how chillingly inept this remark is, especially for someone with a degree in economics. Jonathan Church 22 Mar 2019 · 10 min read
What If Ayn Rand Was Right About Entrepreneurs and Inequality? Rand and her largely philosophical economic views have been consigned to history as an interesting relic of sorts—a compelling, well-articulated fantasy that has no basis in reality. Cameron Hendy 14 Mar 2019 · 8 min read
We Can Put an End to State Bidding Wars Amazon would still have paid tax revenue, and, more likely than not, other tech startups would have followed, growing the taxable population even further. Christopher Sabaitis 23 Feb 2019 · 6 min read
The Meaning of the Self-Destructive Strike at WSU History suggests another explanation, which has been left unexamined that radicalized union leadership is part, perhaps the primary part, of the problem. Evan Osborne 9 Feb 2019 · 8 min read
Video Games and the (Male) Meaning of Life Research indicated that improved technological entertainment options, primarily video games, are responsible for between 20 and 33 percent of reduced work hours. Andrew Yang 14 Dec 2018 · 9 min read
What We Talk About When We Talk About Immigration Focusing on immigration policy through the lens of political allegiance is both dangerous and often ahistorical. Neema Parvini 26 Nov 2018 · 11 min read
A New Kind of Economy—An Interview with Andrew Yang His campaign focuses on solving the problem of job losses to automation—an issue many politicians seem happy to ignore. Peter Clarke 6 Oct 2018 · 17 min read
