The boundaries between physical and digital spheres are collapsing. The digital sharing of personal information is now embedded into the economic and relational activities of daily life. Following the COVID…
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Reprinted from the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal Jumping to conclusions is sometimes a big mistake. I recently became puzzled and mildly infuriated when I read that Stanford…
I expected pushback against the thesis of my paper (co-authored with Michael Makovi) “The Mainstreaming of Marx: Measuring the Effect of the Russian Revolution on Karl Marx’s Influence” from Marxists…
The Consumer Confidence Index from The Conference Board fell for the second consecutive month in November. The composite index decreased by 2.0 points, or 2.0 percent, to 100.2 (see first…
On August 9, 2022, President Biden signed the CHIPS and Science Act into law, stating that it would make “historic investments that poise U.S. workers, communities, and businesses to win…
Reprinted from the Foundation for Economic Education With its humble beginnings being worn by Croatian mercenaries in the Thirty Years War (1618-1648), its subsequent promotion by French absolutist monarch Louis XIV, and…
Every time I travel, I’m overwhelmed by the mind-boggling complexity of the endeavor and the fact that no one is in charge. Travel consists of enterprises with a lot of…
If we want to understand economic fluctuations and business cycles, we need a disciplined way of thinking about how the nominal economy (denominated in current-valued dollars, e.g. market prices and…
Reprinted from Law & Liberty President Biden has put combating climate change at the very top of his national and international agenda, saying that military officials had told him that…
One thing I teach my students in business ethics is that the focus of a business should not be on making money, but that money comes as a result of…