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Stigler’s mark in economics centered on the economic competency—or rather incompetency—of state power. Once man’s behavior was reduced to utility-maximizing self-interest, economists were able to tear down the edifices of government intervention in the economy; they sought “a large role for explicit or implicit prices in the solution of many social
... See moreGlory M. Liu • Adam Smith’s America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism
Democracy, Journalism, and Monopoly: How to Fund Independent News Media in the 21st Century
A conservative Harvard professor critiques the university's failure to foster debate and its silencing of conservative voices.
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One thing that makes Kit conspicuous is this. He's one of the few Harvard professors known to be conservative, to vote Republican.
I voted for President Trump the first time because I needed him to end the war in Afghanistan, and he promised to do that. I didn't think I was going to have any peace in my own life until that war,
... See morethree decades since the FCC revoked the Fairness Doctrine (which required TV and radio stations to devote some of their programming to important issues of the day and air opposing views on those issues)
Michiko Kakutani • The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
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described the school as proposing that the Bill of Rights be reduced to “just a single one: the right to own property.”
Jane Mayer • Dark Money
We are now in a situation that is the opposite of the 1970s. Then there was a capital shortage. Now there is a capital surplus. Interest rates are historically low not because the central bank’s policies make it so. They contribute to it. But the fundamental problem is that there is a tremendous pool of money available for investment and a
... See moreGeorge Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
Green is very present in postmodern academic thinking, in nonprofits, and among social workers and community activists.