Art Carden
There Is No One Answer to Rule Them All
We aren’t respecting others’ liberty, dignity, and autonomy as independent and independently valuable moral agents when we coerce them.
Why I am Not a Socialist
Empirically, the socialist record is one of dismal and at times murderous failure. Why, then, do intellectuals, scholars, and commentators continue in their romantic attachment to it?
Government Is Not a Wise Steward
“Every individual, it is evident, can, in his local situation, judge much better than any statesman or lawgiver can do for him.” ~ Adam Smith
Almost Everything People Say about Big Business Is Wrong
For all its imperfections, American business does a pretty good job — a much better job, Cowen argues, than most people think, and I, for one, agree.
The Hidden Costs of a $15 Per Hour Minimum Wage
There are a lot of ways firms and workers can adjust to higher minimum wages without anyone actually losing his or her job.
The Market Is a Vast Network of Benevolence
Countless minds and countless hands have contributed to the slow march of civilization and helped to create a modern world (one fraught with problems, which I don’t minimize) in which I can perform innumerable operations closed off to previous generations without thinking about them.
Read Hayek As If Your Children’s Lives Depend On It
Hayek worked in the context of the near death of civilization in the world wars, near-universal enthusiasm for socialism among the intellectuals, and repeated exhortations in the face of periodic economic troubles that this time really was the Final Crisis of Capitalism.
People Are Desperately Fleeing Socialism, If They are Allowed
People can vote with their feet for different political, economic, and social institutions. They have overwhelmingly voted for liberty, opportunity, and prosperity when free to do so.
This Duke Dropout Could Reinvigorate the Study of Anthropology
Would it be a tragedy if Williamson were an anthropology virtuoso who, in dropping out of Duke and taking his talents to the NBA, eschewed a career of path-breaking, world-rocking anthropological scholarship? No.
The Unending Creativity of the Spider-Verse
So long as there are new ways to think about the conflict between someone who has been bitten by a radioactive spider, a crime lord who has lost his family, and a mad scientist with mechanical tentacles, there will be room for economic progress.
