D.W. MacKenzie

Articles

04/23/2025 Power & Market D.W. MacKenzie

President Trump is considering paying mothers $5000 per childbirth. However, the marginal effect of an extra $5K would nudge couples who are close to affording an additional child.

USAID: Antidote to Poverty or Forum for Corruption?

04/28/2025 Power & Market D.W. MacKenzie

Foreign direct aid has failed to alleviate worldwide poverty. Nations with secure property rights and the institutions that foster them have prospered.

Public Funding of Universities is Inefficient and Immoral

03/25/2025 Power & Market D.W. MacKenzie

Public funding of University research and education is neither necessary on practical economic grounds nor defensible on moral grounds. It should be cut 100 percent.

Media

My Social Justice Is Better Than Yours

06/26/2014 D.W. MacKenzie

Socialism can only be maintained when one group imposes its will by force on all other groups, writes D.W. MacKenzie. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Allan Davis.

Unintended Consequences in the Process of Socializing Health Care

05/01/2008 D.W. MacKenzie

The movement towards socialized medicine is strong but widely misunderstood. Many ordinary people see health care as a right and complain that it is too expensive. Some economists also see problems with the existing health care system and propose

The Case Against “Smart Taxes” on Carbon

04/22/2009 D.W. MacKenzie

Today is Earth day, and a week ago we “celebrated” tax day. It is fitting, in a sense, that Earth Day and Tax Day are only one week apart. Those who blame global warming on human activity see taxation as an effective and desirable means of preventing

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