Lipton Matthews

Articles

05/14/2025 Mises Wire Lipton Matthews

President Donald Trump’s decision to retire the US Agency for International Development ( USAID) has sparked debate across policy circles. Yet, a close examination of USAID’s operational history—its...

Enslavement of Native Americans in the Caribbean

05/09/2025 Mises Wire Lipton Matthews

The transatlantic slave trade has long been associated with the mass kidnapping of Africans to the Americas, but an often-overlooked chapter in this history is the enslavement and forced exile of...

Technology Transfer Can Help Transform Developing Countries

04/19/2025 Power & Market Lipton Matthews

Discussions on economic development in developing countries often overlook a critical factor: technology transfer. Yet, history demonstrates that technological diffusion is essential to economic...

Media

From Indentureship to Entrepreneurship

01/02/2025 Lipton Matthews

Entrepreneurs come from all walks of life and from different social and ethnic groups. Lipton Matthews reviews Jean-Claude Escalante’s From Indentureship to Entrepreneurship, which chronicles the rise of a successful entrepreneur who came from humble beginnings.

Jamaica and the Failure of the Entrepreneurial State

12/26/2024 Lipton Matthews

As we see from Jamaica‘s experience, attempts by the government to be entrepreneurial misallocate resources, waste money, and achieve poor results.

Contrived Scarcity and Antitrust Lawsuits—“It’s Not a Bag, It’s a Birkin”

12/09/2024 Lipton Matthews

Birkin bags are pricey and the producer restricts its potential buyers. Unfortunately, disgruntled customers who don’t want to follow the company’s rules are now appealing to US antitrust law.

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