Economic Growth

  • Only Economic Freedom Pulls People Out of Poverty

    “The primary focus should be on enhancing economic freedom, as it is the key mechanism that enables individuals to elevate themselves out of poverty.” ~Vincent Geloso

    Only Economic Freedom Pulls People Out of Poverty
  • How Nations Defeat Poverty

    “What these stories all have in common is that these nations rose from poverty by embracing a common formula: more economic freedom and free trade… not international aid or central planning.” ~Jon Miltimore

    How Nations Defeat Poverty
  • Boosters Beware: Stadiums Aren’t Magic

    “Just about every economist knows publicly financed stadiums are boondoggles that, if anything, imperil cities’ financial positions.” ~Art Carden

    Boosters Beware: Stadiums Aren’t Magic
  • Protectionists Are Wrong: Free Trade is the Path to Prosperity

    “Consumers and producers in America are better off with more domestic and international trade. As we don’t want to produce everything we consume daily, trading with others is the most efficient way to meet our needs.” ~Vance Ginn

    Protectionists Are Wrong: Free Trade is the Path to Prosperity
  • More Housing Fixes (Almost) Everything

    “The right should like that housing deregulation means fewer rules burdening businesspeople and people earn higher real incomes. The left should like that housing deregulation means higher real incomes and lower inequality.” ~Art Carden

    More Housing Fixes (Almost) Everything
  • Protectionists’ Cheap Tricks

    “Gains from trade are mutual, a reality that isn’t changed one iota by imposing a political boundary between the traders. Protectionism therefore strips both foreigners and Americans of these gains.” ~Donald J. Boudreaux

    Protectionists’ Cheap Tricks
  • The Bourgeois Deal Brought Us More than Pie in the Sky

    “We didn’t need a worker’s revolution to get and enjoy pie in the here and now… Innovation and profit-seeking in a society that embraced the Bourgeois Deal made workers so much more productive that the pie grew. A lot.” ~Art Carden

    The Bourgeois Deal Brought Us More than Pie in the Sky
  • The Magic Food Cupboard

    “Every small aspect of the work that people do to deliver and stock those Whole Foods grocery shelves is noble, in its own way. Dismissing the parts as meaningless fails to understand the power of the larger system.” ~Michael Munger

    The Magic Food Cupboard
  • Unlimited Growth, Forever

    “Every popular scare of the past has been side-stepped, improved, or solved, by one or another human effort, usually serendipitously and rarely at all with well-meaning bureaucrats directing the process. ” ~Joakim Book

    Unlimited Growth, Forever
  • Weaving Stable Neighborhoods

    “It’s simply unconscionable that so many of us continue to invest our charitable time and treasure into projects that undermine social cohesion rather than building it.” ~Rachel Ferguson

    Weaving Stable Neighborhoods
  • US Economic Growth Plunges in First Quarter 2024

    “Much of the post-COVID economic growth has been built atop the unsustainable pillars of fiscal and monetary stimuli.” ~Peter C. Earle

    US Economic Growth Plunges in First Quarter 2024
  • Take the Government Out of GDP 

    “Tax revenues are harvested from private citizens by means of coercion and extractive measures… Paying taxes to remain free of incarceration or not face withering financial penalties is hardly indicative of cooperative exchange. ” ~Tom Savidge and Peter C. Earle

    Take the Government Out of GDP