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Africa's Entrepreneurs: The Igbos of Nigeria

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Blog07/07/2022

Groups targeted by class warriors in America will achieve more if they follow the Igbos’ path and ignore the politics of grievance.

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Entrepreneurship Should Be the Goal, Not White-Collar Jobs

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Blog07/05/2022

Many of the best-known civil rights leaders eschewed entrepreneurship, emphasizing that blacks seek employment in the professions and government jobs.

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Market Success Is about Giving People What They Want

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Blog06/11/2022

Progressives believe that economies should be run by high-IQ "experts." But successful market economies require entrepreneurs with an idea and the willingness to face uncertain economic conditions.

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Political and Economic Entrepreneurship: Freedom Depends on the Latter

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Blog06/06/2022

When we speak of entrepreneurship, we need to specify if it is economic or political. The first expands wealth and freedom; the second makes us poorer and less free.

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Christianity and the Development of Human Capital: Challenging the Narratives

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Blog05/20/2022

While the standard secular narrative is that Christianity held back science and human development, history tells a different story, one of literacy and the development of human capital.

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Quantitative Methods Are Incomplete When Used for Economic Analysis

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Blog03/09/2022

Modern economics claims that quantitative methods are central to understanding economic analysis. Mises demonstrated why this belief is untrue.

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With Capitalism, Cooperation Is Just as Important as Competition

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Blog06/10/2021

Free consumers and business owners always seek to cooperate in the marketplace. After all, "suppose there were no coming together, each individual dependent solely on his or her own thoughts and productivity…. All would starve!"

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Entrepreneurs Are Motivated by Profit, Not Risk

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Blog06/02/2021

A capitalist never chooses that investment in which, according to his understanding of the future, the danger of losing his input is smallest. He chooses that investment in which he expects to make the highest possible profits.

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Why "Stakeholder Capitalism" Is a Disaster for Entrepreneurs

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Blog02/24/2021

The driving force behind the stakeholder capitalism philosophy is precisely that it creates opportunities for political actors to assert disproportionate control over the economy’s resources. 

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How Markets Turn Lousy Products into Great Ones

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Blog02/09/2021

Centrally planned economies often stick with terrible ideas for many years. But markets can take bad products, learn from them, and turn them into great products that give the public what it wants and needs.

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