A free and prosperous society requires a functioning market economy at its foundation. Using a broad array of tools drawn from price theory, public choice analysis, Austrian theory, and classical empiricism, our study of economics and economic freedom explores the underpinnings of the market system, the roots of economic prosperity, and emerging threats to the same in the public policy sphere. Our work includes the measurement of freedom and providing practical economic information for people to make better decisions.
Research Fellow Thomas Savidge digs into tax data to answer a frequently echoed question.
Argentina serves as a case study for the relationship between institutional environments and economic growth, as reality matches the theoretical predictions: economic freedom is a necessary condition for economic growth.
Explaining Welfare Benefits at the State Level
Prior to 1976, the United States experienced modest trade surpluses. Since then, the US has seen nothing but trade deficits.
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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 […]
“Trump’s plan is a disaster from the perspective of cost, incentives, and value neutrality.” ~Vanessa Brown Calder
“To pretend that you can have all the riches of the modern world and eliminate the ability for anyone to become wealthy is a sure sign of someone who has no understanding of how all this wealth was generated in the first place.” ~James Hartley
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Our latest issue explores why economic misconceptions persist and the vigilance required to counter them.
PC Earle, DM Waugh. The Emerald Handbook on Cryptoassets: Investment Opportunities and …, 2023
PC Earle, M Gulker, EP Stringham. Journal of Private Enterprise 37 (4), 2022
PC Earle. Financial History, 12-15, 2022
RM Yonk. Cato Institute, 2022
J Enninga, RM Yonk. Sustainability 15 (8), 6396, 2023
RE Wright. Business Economics 57 (2), 89-91, 2022
RE Wright. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022
RE Wright. The Independent Review 26 (4), 513-532, 2022
TL Hogan. Public Choice 191 (1-2), 105-135, 2022
M Matheis, J Sorens. Housing Studies, 1-17, 2022
J Sorens. Publius: The Journal of Federalism 53 (1), 55-81, 2023
J Sorens. Manhattan Institute, Apr 1, 2022
A Carden, V Geloso, PW Magness. Standard of Living: Essays on Economics, History, and Religion in Honor of …, 2022
P Magness, A Carden, I Murtazashvili. Available at SSRN 4318585, 2023
VJ Geloso, P Magness, J Moore, P Schlosser. The Economic Journal 132 (647), 2366-2391, 2022