Jeffrey A. Tucker

AIER Editorial Director – 2017-2021

Jeffrey A. Tucker served as Editorial Director for the American Institute for Economic Research from 2017 to 2021.

Smart Society, Stupid People

"If economies come to be restored, eventually, to their former selves, it will not be because we or our leaders somehow beat a virus. The virus outsmarted everyone. What will…

Smart Society, Stupid People

The Best-laid Plans Often Go Astray, Even for Macroprudential Regulators

The problem with this comment is its failure to be the least bit realistic. It ignores a basic fact: whatever plans regulators have in place for a financial crisis or…

The Best-laid Plans Often Go Astray, Even for Macroprudential Regulators

Frozen II: Saved by Blessedly Superficial Viewers

The great news is that, so far as I can tell, viewers aren’t very interested in the climate-crisis-post-colonial-critical-theory-identitarian elements of the story and prefer to think mainly about the cute…

Frozen II: Saved by Blessedly Superficial Viewers

The Early Years of the Crypto Revolution (Podcast with Jeffrey Tucker and Charlie Shrem)

Charlie Shrem was the inadvertent genius you hope to meet in the early years of a technological revolution. We became fast friends, based on this odd combination of naivete and…

The Early Years of the Crypto Revolution (Podcast with Jeffrey Tucker and Charlie Shrem)

The Year the Information Age Began

As with all innovations, we went from deprived to entitled in a relatively short period of time. The age of not knowing became the age of knowing in a few…

The Year the Information Age Began