I was a guest on a recent episode of "Don't Tread on Anyone" with Keith Knight.
Economics
Big Business: Hero, Villain, Or Both?
The Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada is in many respects a fairly typical business school. It offers degrees in management, leadership, economics, and so on, and its faculty members are regularly published...
TGIF: Damn Those Innovators!
The problem of survival is never "solved," once and for all, with no further thought or motion required. More precisely, the problem of survival is solved, by recognizing that survival demands constant growth and creativeness.... Capitalism, by its nature, entails a...
Capitalism Can’t Be Everything Its Foes Say It Is
"Nothing is more unpopular today than the free market economy, i.e., capitalism. Everything that is considered unsatisfactory in present-day conditions is charged to capitalism. The atheists make capitalism responsible for the survival of Christianity. But the papal...
Understanding Money and Inflation in Today’s World
Leaving aside the events that made the current monetary system possible, banknotes that are printed monopolistically (currency) by central banks have purchasing power and serve as a general medium of exchange (money) for billions of people around the world. Such...
Donald ‘Right About Everything’ Trump Gets Prices Wrong
President Donald Trump constantly blusters as if he deserves the 'Nobel Prize for Economic Triumphs,' just like he supposedly deserved the Nobel Peace Prize. Last week in a speech in Iowa, he doubled down on his triumphs by referring to himself in the third person:...
TGIF: The Right to Move
If people individually own themselves and have a right to be free of aggressive force, then they have a right to change their location in ways consistent with other people's rights. Whether you call this moving around relocating, emigrating, or immigrating, doesn't...
Reindustrialization, the Dollar, and the Limits of Tariff Politics
President Donald Trump’s call to reindustrialize the United States taps into a widely shared sense that something fundamental has gone wrong in the American economy. Manufacturing employment has collapsed, entire regions have been hollowed out, and supply-chain...
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