The Changing Politics of Oligarchy
Liberal democracies need to restore a climate of entrepreneurial opportunity and competition.
Joel Kotkin
· 10 min read
Economics
A collection of 106 posts
In Defence of Neoliberalism
The neoliberal turn was a pragmatic response to failed economic intervention and yielded broadly positive results.
Austin O'Connell
· 5 min read
Marxism: The Idea That Refuses to Die
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.
Tibor Rutar
· 13 min read
The Nonsense of the “Tariff Men”
President Trump’s protectionist policies are erratic, ill-defined, and incoherent.
Phillip W. Magness
· 15 min read
Populists Before Trump
John Ganz’s lively new book provides a valuable account of the intellectual origins of Trumpism.
Leon Hadar
· 9 min read
Sin and Social Science
Glenn Loury’s startlingly frank confessional memoir offers a complex portrait of a brilliant scholar and a profoundly flawed man.
John Lloyd
· 14 min read
The Road to Neo-Feudalism
Western societies stand on the brink of a great reversion towards a demographically and economically stagnant society reminiscent of the Dark Ages.
Joel Kotkin
· 9 min read
The Digital Mirror of Narcissus
Technology steers my life along tracks chosen for my digital double, not for me. But this proxy personalisation wouldn’t work at all if I didn’t play my part.
Timandra Harkness
· 11 min read
Javier Milei and the Spanish Tradition of Liberty
The Spanish tradition of limited government is older than the Magna Carta. Argentina will do well to revive it.
Daniel Raisbeck
· 10 min read
The Limits of Good Intentions
The payday-loan debate revisited.
Aaron Hanna
· 22 min read
The Seven Laws of Pessimism
If life is better than ever before, why does the world seem so depressing?
Maarten Boudry
· 16 min read
Misunderstanding the Fertility Crisis
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.
Alex Nowrasteh
· 10 min read
Javier Milei and the Libertarian Tradition
His political ascent was meteoric, but classical liberalism has a storied history in Argentina.
Daniel Raisbeck
· 7 min read
Forget About Overpopulation, Soon There Will Be Too Few Humans
The more people there are, the more solutions to problems will be found.
Maarten Boudry
· 8 min read
Economics is Not a Game of Monopoly
The standard textbook model of monopoly economics only applies to the real world in a narrow range of circumstances.
Saul Zimet
· 7 min read