Free Markets
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The Ugly Truth About Amazon’s HQ2 Beauty Contest
Amazon’s highly coveted HQ2 is probably a good deal for company and cities alike, but for the rest of us, it’s just another frustrating example of what happens when big business and big government join hands.
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The Fallacies of the Investment Theory of Politics
The argument that politics is controlled by some of the wealthy and run for their benefit is largely correct, but the conclusion should be that we should restrict their opportunity to do this by limiting politics and government, not that we should expand them.
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More or Better Rules Will Not Save Us
Society is much closer to a complex biological organism than to a matrix of engineering principles with explicit, contingent rules.
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No, Society Does Not Need Unity
To understand the awesome power of heterogeneity is to adopt a different outlook on society itself. It is to embrace the core liberal claim: society doesn’t need top-down management, because it contains within itself the capacity for its own management.
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Voting Is Not Self-Expression
Voting may be many things, but the least of them is self-expression. Conceding the sufficiency of multi-billion dollar political contests among highly vetted, meticulously-coached candidates is a guaranteed road to self-negation.
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Advertisers, Press Furious at Facebook Over Its Video “Mistakes”
As users have started losing confidence in Facebook after the firm’s decision to purge hundreds of popular pages from the platform, it will be only a matter of time until a strong competitor enters the picture.
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The Economic Color Blindness of the Sears Catalog
Sears played an important role in circumventing the institutionalized racial discrimination of the Jim Crow South.
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Let There Be Light!
Light, as we know it today, is a commodity. That would not have been possible without the institutional prerequisites — freedom to create, own, and exchange — that built the modernity we too often take for granted.
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The Epic Battle to Control Your Thoughts
No authority can substitute for the activity, creativity, and adaptability of the human mind.
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The Rise of Capitalism and the Dignity of Labor
Free market liberalism not only has brought about growing prosperity for more of humanity, but has cultivated a more polite and respectful society to accompany the material betterment of the human condition.
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Uber Faces Tough Competition
We have all heard the tales of aggressive competitiveness between Uber and Lyft in the United States, with the latter accusing the world’s leading ride-sharing company of unethical behavior. But what you may have not heard is that Uber’s top competitor in India, Ola, is expanding, prompting Uber to seek a merger in other regions…
