Wonder Information Tag

(Don Boudreaux) Tweet… is from page 181 of Arthur M. Diamond, Jr.’s wonderful 2019 book, Openness to Creative Destruction: Sustaining Innovative Dynamism (footnote deleted): Happiness depends more on freedom and hope for the future than on current income. Read the Full Article here:...

Edmund Burke, the father of conservatism, once said that patronage was “the tribute which opulence owes to genius.” If you were wealthy, it was your moral obligation to give back to the community – not merely by improving the lot of...

[Chapter 11 of Rothbard's newly edited and released Conceived in Liberty, vol. 5, The New Republic: 1784–1791.] Massachusetts suffered particularly from the economic aftermath of the Revolutionary War as its fisheries trade was cut off and its exports to the West Indies were sharply curtailed. Furthermore, the grandiose postwar...

(Don Boudreaux) TweetWhat an outrageously misleading ‘report’ in the New York Times: Editor: Apoorva Mandavilli’s report titled “Cases in Florida, a national Covid bellwether, are rising – especially among younger people” (March 28) is irresponsible and deeply misleading. Florida’s 7-day average of daily new Covid-19 cases is indeed,...