There’s a reason you don’t see many Adam Smith ties in the faculty lounge. “Adam Smith believed there are few things that the government should do,” James Otteson of Wake Forest said at the Philadelphia…
Topic: free market
Activism Textbook in a U of Michigan Class wants to Overthrow Capitalism
While we’re at it, let’s go headfirst into a socialist system that only leads to rationing and poverty. That totally makes sense (sarcasm).
Checkmating History
Perhaps chess champions who escaped from the old Soviet Union can give us better history lessons than academic historians. “Sometimes I joke that if guys like Barack Obama and David Cameron had been in power…
World Bank: Epic Fail
Development programs run by the World Bank and other multilateral agencies regularly fail because they rely on government aid rather than the free market, New York University economist William Easterly said recently at the Cato…
Edley Knows That Government Knows Best
Yesterday an education panel was held at the New York Public Library. The panel, sponsored by the Wall Street Journal and Intel Corporation, starred three leftists who continued “the ongoing debate inside the Democratic Party…