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TweetJoshua Rauh and Gregory Kearney, writing in the Wall Street Journal, identify a perverse incentive that is corrupting academics, including economists. A slice: Unfortunately, today’s journalists...
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Bonus Quotation of the Day…
Tweet… is from page 82 of David Schmidtz’s excellent 2023 book, Living Together: Political ideals are not points of convergence. The liberal political ideal is not that we embrace the same religion but...
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TweetMy intrepid Mercatus Center colleague, Veronique de Rugy, understands well the folly of those people who wrongly suppose themselves to be wiser-than-thou in rejecting Adam Smith’s observation that...
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Quotation of the Day…
Tweet… is from page 3 of the late Stanford University economic historian Nathan Rosenberg’s “Introduction” to the 1994 collection of several of his papers – a collection titled Exploring the Black Box:...
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TweetHere’s a letter to Yahoo!Finance. Editor: Your SmartAsset Team writes that “protective tariffs can help emerging industries and preserve jobs within a country” (“What Do Governments Typically...
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