Capitalism
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The Incoherence of ESG: Why We Should Disaggregate the Environmental, Social, and Governance Label
“Conceptually, no reason exists for why the fundamental ideas within the ESG label should correlate with one another.” ~Paul Mueller
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Destroying Creative Destruction: Volkswagen, Germany, and the Will to Power
“Bureaucratic sclerosis displays its own cycles of creative destruction.” ~Paul Schwennesen
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How to Really End ESG
“It’s incumbent upon ESG critics to advocate an alternative vision, not merely to fall in line with convention.” ~Russell Greene
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Slumming It: How Commerce Once Communed with Sin
“The miracle of the modern economy owes as much to the accidental playhouse of 1576 as to the intentional jurisprudence of 1625 and the late-to-the-game Glorious Revolution in 1689.” ~Scott Drylie
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Users, Not Regulators, Decide When Google Will Fall
“Congress should Google the benefits of economic freedom and also search up how to curtail the gargantuan levels of government spending…a bulging bureaucratic state is more costly for Americans than the growing success of our most innovative firms.” ~Kimberlee Josephson
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Interventions, Easy Money Run Amok
“An obvious set of perverse incentives simply stimulate more risk-taking by corporate management and investment firms in the future, resulting in even bigger future bailouts down the road. At a certain point this strategy of holding the wolf by the ears will become untenable.” ~Richard Morrison
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Favor Monopolies over Federal Meddling
“Thus, the monopoly status of a firm is not a problem if consumers are happy and entrepreneurs aren’t hampered. Moreover, competition is of no use if greater value can’t be attained or cost savings can’t be accrued.” ~Kimberlee Josephson
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DOJ Ruling on Google Ignores the Reality of Exclusive Contracts
“Consumers clearly have options when it comes to search, but because they consistently choose one product over the other does not mean that the exclusive contracts indicate anticompetitive behavior.” ~Spence Purnell
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Nike Takes Its Eye Off the Ball
“Nike wanted to make an impact in the community, venturing beyond selling shoes and sports apparel. The results include a current 2-percent reduction in labor force.” ~Stefan Bartl
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Consumers (Sovereignly) Control Google
“Every commercial choice — buying, selling, abstaining, using — is not just a transaction but a significant vote for who should produce what, when, where, and how.” ~Art Carden
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But Also What If?
“The arrogance of those who wish to unleash the dogs of antitrust on CurrentlyDominant, Inc. prevents them from asking important follow-up questions.” ~Donald J Boudreaux
