Donald J. Boudreaux

Specialized labor and freely shifting markets result in creative destruction, but also mutual enrichment. Where would you want to live?

Whether subsidizing our own producers or punishing those abroad, tariffs inevitably become handouts to the politically powerful.

Protectionism can't enrich the country as a whole, only boost certain individuals and industries while impoverishing the rest.

No one acting within markets needs to aim at generating beneficial system-wide outcomes. Such outcomes emerge spontaneously.

Very many good, honest, hard-working people are sick of being treated as if they are ignorant and helpless bigots.

Wealth doesn't just happen. Its creation – or not – is the result of choices, incentives, risk, and investment.

America’s industrial capacity is today at an all-time high — and not because of tariffs.

Disasters create desperate need and diminish supply at the same time. High prices reflect that painful reality and motivate us to correct the situation quickly.

"Individuals who we don’t know and who don’t know us seek to gain our trust so that they can then gain open-ended access to our wealth." ~Don Boudreaux

"Every now and then we encounter a problem that does have a solution. The kidney shortage is one of these problems." ~Don Boudreaux