Wonder Information Tag

15 Mar Have the Danes rendered families less important?

Posted at 17:52h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Many American policy analysts point to Denmark as a model welfare state with low levels of income inequality and high levels of income mobility across generations. It has in place many social policies now advocated for adoption in the U.S. Despite generous Danish social policies,...

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15 Mar How Markets Empower Women: Innovation and Market Participation Transform Women’s Lives for the Better

Posted at 13:59h in Uncategorized by one80Admin

Not all Bangladeshi men think that way. In fact, the earning power of women is eroding the custom of bridal dowries. It has also brought about greater responsiveness by the court system toward women. Since women have started working, the “law is on their side,”...

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15 Mar Leave the Choice of Restrictions to the Market-AIER

Posted at 13:58h in Uncategorized by one80Admin

Coffee shops in Knoxville, Tennessee, are a microcosm of the world’s reaction to Covid-19. A Starbucks here features a drive-through stacked several cars deep, hour after hour. Most of the people waiting patiently in their cars wear masks. Inside, the shop...

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15 Mar How Liberalism Can Survive Left-Right Polarization-AIER

Posted at 13:55h in Uncategorized by one80Admin

The rise of political extremes in America, both left and right, poses a particular challenge for those of us who prefer liberty over government control. It’s not only in the US; the same grows in the UK, Europe, Latin America, and...

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15 Mar Ep 39: Good talk: examining the design principles of a good conversation

Posted at 13:54h in Uncategorized by one80Admin

EPISODE 39: DESIGN PRINCIPLES OF A GOOD CONVERSATION (THURSDAY, MARCH 18 AT 1:00 PM ET) “If the American experiment is to succeed, we must improve the quality of our political, academic and civic conversations.” — Dr. Emily Chamlee-Wright. On Episode 39 of “The Future of Democracy,”...

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15 Mar Welcome to Word Tyranny and Cultural Balkanization

Posted at 13:29h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

America has entered into a new era of thought control. Back in the 1960s, there was a determined campaign by many conservatives to resist the free speech movement symbolically headquartered on the Berkeley campus of the University of California. Then, the idea was to respect...

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15 Mar The One-Year Anniversary of Lockdowns

Posted at 13:29h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

One year ago, between March 13 and 16, 2020, began what most of us would agree were the most difficult days of our lives. We thought our rights and liberties were more or less secure or could only be hobbled on the margin. We took...

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15 Mar The Woke Award Shows

Posted at 13:29h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Award shows, like the Oscars, are beating themselves up for their history of white supremacy. Future awards will go only to films that meet diversity quotas. "These awards just shouldn't even be seen as legitimate," musician Eric July tells me. "It's supposed to be based...

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15 Mar Semi-annual Time Changes Are a Pointless, Disruptive, and Expensive Annual Ritual

Posted at 13:28h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

This Sunday, March 14, we will all take part in a pointless, disruptive, and expensive annual ritual. We (unless you live in Arizona, Hawaii, or Puerto Rico, or most other countries in the world) will set our clocks forward one hour and move from...

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15 Mar How I Survived a Year in a Weird and Empty Manhattan

Posted at 13:28h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

A year ago, virtually all of the nearly 4 million people who swamp Manhattan below 60th Street each day deserted the central city — except me. I am one of a handful of people — less than 30,000, in a space that would fit six...

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