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Why It's so Hard to Escape America's "Anti-Poverty" Programs

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Between the regulation of business and penalties for rising income, anti-poverty policies in America make it so that many workers have no clear path to escape poverty.

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Nationalism as National Liberation: Lessons from the End of the Cold War

Blog02/19/2020

If we regard nationalism as necessarily harmful, we end up supporting the Soviet Union, and every empire and two-bit dictator who manages to hammer together a variety of disparate groups under a single national banner.

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The Case Against Political Activism

02/19/2020Audio/Video

Jeff Deist explains why the private sector — and not political activism — is the most critical ingredient in improving American life today. 

Social Security Cannot Survive in Its Present Form

Blog02/19/2020

The Social Security program will have to be either inflated away with increasingly worthless dollars or Congress will have to intervene to cut benefits. 

The Green Fatal Conceit: Why Physical Science Can’t Tell Us Proper Policy Goals

Blog02/19/2020

The so-called CLEAN Future Act is as poorly designed as its acronym. Like the Green New Deal, it consists of radical new spending proposals that the bill’s supporters would have liked for other reasons, and which aren’t even compatible. 

Why Governments Hate Secession

Blog02/18/2020

States seek to perpetuate themselves by seizing more control of capital and human beings. Size makes this easier. And every regime would become a mega-state like China or the US if it could.

Freedom and Prosperity in Liechtenstein: A Hoppean Analysis

02/18/2020The Journal of Libertarian Studies

Liechtenstein has long been recognized as one of the most free and prosperous countries in the world. However, there has been little analysis of Liechtenstein’s development because the scant research that existed was in German and therefore inaccessible to most American scholars. Furthermore,...

How Chile's Protesters Get Inequality and Poverty Wrong

Blog02/18/2020

Allowing the market to operate with minimal government intervention has helped Chile become one of the freest and wealthiest countries in South America, especially when compared to its direct neighbors.

Some Problems with Worker Productivity Stats

Blog02/18/2020

Government statistics on worker productivity combine many errors of aggregation such as "average prices" and the total purchasing power of money. So it's unlikely that productivity numbers tell us much that's useful.

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