Defending Freedom, Combatting Collectivism
Against collectivist impulses, the defense of freedom, personal responsibility, and the moral, political, legal, and economic foundations of a free society is ever necessary. Protecting the American experiment in ordered liberty is a debt that we owe to the past, and a challenge to pursue in the future. We examine the following issues in this area: the case for free trade vs. protectionism, individualism vs. the new collectivists (DEI/Critical Theory/Marxism/Social Democracy/Economic Nationalism/etc.), shareholder capitalism vs. ESG and stakeholder capitalism, foreign policy for a free society, and the foundations and first principles of freedom and free markets.
Articles
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Understanding Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century
In the past decade, the theoretical and empirical arguments of French economist Thomas Piketty have attracted widespread attention.
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AIER Defends Local Control in Key New Hampshire Tax and Education Cases
AIER has submitted amicus curiae briefs to the New Hampshire Supreme Court in the combined cases Rand v. State and ConVal v. State. We took this step because our economic research is directly relevant to the issues raised in these cases. In Rand, the trial court ruled that New Hampshire’s property tax system was unconstitutional…
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Civil Discourse and Political Reality
“It is one thing to dislike someone’s policies and argue against them in a civil discourse, discussing the merits and consequences of their proposals. But there is no place to demonize and so diminish the character of a candidate.” ~Will Sellers
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Misunderstanding Poverty: a Review of ‘Second Class’
“Frédéric Bastiat famously warned against economic sophisms, the facile myths around free trade and economic policy… Alas, Batya Ungar-Sargon is not even a bad economist.” ~Nikolai Wenzel
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The Threats Posed by Environmental, Social, and Governance Policies
This AIER Paper seeks to educate citizens and investors about the substance of ESG and the kinds of problems it has created, providing the interested reader with a variety of sources to study ESG in greater depth.
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Unbundling Zoning
Will zoning powers inevitably be abused, and would they be reconstituted in some other form if zoning were abolished? Evidence and theory both suggest that private land-use governance could be a non-exclusionary substitute for zoning, but transaction costs in setting up alternatives to zoning are significant.
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Sen. Cassidy Sounds Alarm on Union Policies Crushing the Free Market
“What’s good for Big Labor is often quite inconsistent with what’s good for small businesses and their workers. From labor laws to healthcare costs, these Biden initiatives could impose heavy financial burdens and reduce the operational flexibility that America’s entrepreneurs’ owners rely upon for survival.” ~ Thomas Stratmann
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Overpopulation: An Ancient Myth Refuted
“The innovation required to sustain an ever-increasing world population demands economic and personal freedom. Collectivism and central planning will only restrict the human ingenuity, ideas, and enterprises that will pave the way toward a brighter, more prosperous future.” ~Aidan Grogan
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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
Research Publications
Cash, crime, and cryptocurrencies
JR Hendrickson, WJ Luther. The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance 85, 200-207, 2022
The Dangers of Democracy
RE Wright. The History and Evolution of the North American Wildlife Conservation Model …, 2022
Cryptocurrencies, Blockchain, and Public Choice
RM Yonk, D Waugh. Cryptocurrency Concepts, Technology, and Applications, 2023
A Gay Bar and Some Polygamists Had a Fight over Zoning…
RM Yonk. Cato Institute, 2022
Debating Universal Basic Income: Pros, Cons, and Alternatives
RE Wright, A Przegalińska. Springer Nature, 2022
Money, Power, and the People: The American Struggle to Make Banking Democratic by Christopher W. Shaw
RE Wright. Journal of Interdisciplinary History 52 (4), 624-626, 2022
Fearless: Wilma Soss and America’s Forgotten Investor Movement
JM Traflet, RE Wright.
AI ≠ UBI: Income Portfolio Adjustment to Technological Transformation
RE Wright, A Przegalinska. Augmented Education in the Global Age: Artificial Intelligence and the …, 2023
Reducing recidivism and encouraging desistance: a social entrepreneurial approach
RE Wright. Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, 2022
Herb Childress. The Adjunct Underclass: How America’s Colleges Betrayed Their Faculty, Their Students, and Their Mission: Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 2019 …
PW Magness. The Journal of Value Inquiry 56 (2), 313-318, 2022
“The Danger of Deplorable Reactions”: WH Hutt on Liberalism, Populism, and the Constitutional Political Economy of Racism
PA Coclanis, RE Wright, PW Magness, A Carden, I Murtazashvili, …. The Independent Review; Oakland Vol. 26, Iss. 4, (Spring 2022): 0_3,0_4.
Darity, Camara, and MacLean on William H. Hutt
PW Magness, A Carden. Econ Journal Watch 19 (2), 204-231, 2022
The danger of deplorable reactions
PW Magness, A Carden, I Murtazashvili. WH Hutt on liberalism, populism, and the constitutional political economy of …, 2022
Confederate Exodus: Social and Environmental Forces in the Migration of US Southerners to Brazil
PW Magness. Journal of American History 109 (3), 676-677, 2022
Situating Southern Influences in James M. Buchanan and Modern Public Choice Economics
A Carden, V Geloso, PW Magness. Standard of Living: Essays on Economics, History, and Religion in Honor of …, 2022
The 1619 Project Deserves Consideration and Criticism
PW Magness. Cato Institute, 2022
How the Academy Rehabilitated Karl Marx
PW Magness. Cato Institute, 2022
Gordon Tullock and the Economics of Slavery
P Magness, A Carden, I Murtazashvili. Available at SSRN 4318585, 2023
Setting the Record Straight on “Setting the Record Straight on the Libertarian South African Economist WH Hutt and James M. Buchanan”
P Magness, A Carden. Buchanan”(June 12, 2022), 2022
The Hyperpoliticization of Higher Ed: Trends in Faculty Political Ideology, 1969–Present
PW MAGNESS, D WAUGH. Independent Review 27 (3), 2022
Understanding the exceptional pre-vaccination era East Asian COVID-19 outcomes
J Bhattacharya, P Magness, M Kulldorff. Advances in Biological Regulation, 100916, 2022
” The Danger of Deplorable Reactions”: WH Hutt on Liberalism, Populism, and the Constitutional Political Economy of Racism
PW Magness, A Carden, I Murtazashvili. The Independent Review 26 (4), 533-552, 2022
Misrepresenting Mises: Quotation Editing and a Rejection of Peer Review at Cambridge University Press.
PW Magness, A Janaskie. Econ Journal Watch 19 (1), 2022
The Mainstreaming of Marx: Measuring the Effect of the Russian Revolution on Karl Marx’s Influence
P Magness, M Makovi. Journal of Political Economy, 2022
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