Porter Burkett

Porter Burkett is a student at the University of South Carolina majoring in economics and operations and supply chain management, with interests in the economics of entrepreneurship, firm organization, and capital theory from the Austrian perspective, as well as libertarian political economy.

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Too Much Centralization Is Turning Everything into a Political Crisis

09/19/2020 Mises Wire Porter Burkett

Is American politics reaching a breaking point? A recent study by researchers from Brown and Stanford Universities certainly paints a grim picture of the state of the national discourse. The study...

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