(Don Boudreaux) TweetHave our rulers no decency or even awareness of reality? Lockdown tyrant Bill de Blasio, mayor of New York City, danced with his wife on New Year’s Eve in an almost-empty Times Square. (Why do so many people still obey Covid-19 dictators such...
This year, the American Institute for Economic Research published 1,380 articles with 10.5 million readers from all countries in the world. Each article has a reason for being here: it helps illuminate the world around us in light of the primary concern for functioning markets...
The noted author Alvaro Vargas Llosa has an excellent article at the Washington Examiner detailing how Cuba’s communist regime has used the Covid-19 crisis to expand its tyranny over the Cuban people. Much of what he details might sound familiar to Americans. He writes: “A...
This year has mainly been one to forget. But in the spirit of celebrating the positive, we should remember 2020 as the 75th anniversary of the publication of F.A. Hayek’s most important paper: “The Use of Knowledge in Society.” Friedrich A. Hayek may be best known...
Bob Chitester, the executive producer of Free to Choose, looks back. Read the Full Article here: >National Review...
2020 will be remembered for many things: COVID-19, nationwide riots, a divisive election. But the rise of pandemic lockdowns will go down as the most momentous. Never before have the day-to-day lives of so much of humanity been so radically upended. And, outside of wartime,...
(Don Boudreaux) TweetHere’s a letter to a personal friend: Mr. P____ P____: Thanks for your e-mail in which you dissent in part from the position I take in my letter to Matt Zwolinski. You write that “Closing bars, for e.g., does impair freedom, but appears to be effective. If...
A New Year’s resolution, the old saying goes, is something that goes in one year and out the other. I’m as guilty as anybody when it comes to overly-ambitious resolutions. I’ve broken enough of them that maybe I should just say “Happy New Year!” and leave...
If you’ve watched FEE programs, publications, and announcements even occasionally in the last couple of years, you’ve no doubt noticed some important changes. We’ve retooled and refocused. At the same time, we’ve reaffirmed the principles of our founding some 67 years ago. We’re using technology...
(Don Boudreaux) TweetHere’s a letter to University of San Diego philosopher Matt Zwolinski: Matt: I write with what I trust you know is enormous and rock-solid respect for you and your scholarship, from which I’ve learned so much over the years. Yet I must push back against...