Friday Roundup, March 14th
Comes now Joel Alicea opining in this month's Forum on Richard Epstein's essay "In Defense of the Classical Liberal Constitution." Hank Clark of the BB&T Center for the Study of Capitalism at...
View ArticleInnovation in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty’s book Capital in the Twenty-First Century has gotten a better reception from left-liberals than any book since Limits to Growth. The books have important similarities. Both posit...
View ArticlePromoting Innovation in the Twenty-First Century
In my last post, I discussed how the nature of innovation in our time raises questions for Thomas Piketty’s forecast of increasing inequality in his new book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century. In...
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Rebuilding the Liberty Narrative: A Conversation with Gordon Lloyd
There is nothing more arduous than the apprenticeship of liberty, Tocqueville informs. While equality in modern democratic society is a natural tendency—one that grows without much effort—it is liberty...
View ArticleThe New Cronyism of the Old Rent-Seeking State
Michael Greve’s essay vividly describes some deeply troubling trends in the relationship between the government and the economy. It provides a much needed perspective at a time when politics and...
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America Has Gone Wobbly
The American experiment has always been a rickety thing, a wobbly stool balanced on the three legs of its politics, its economics, and its public morals. From its founding, the United States had a...
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The Rich You Will Always Have With You
Walter Scheidel writes that only revolutions of a certain character demonstrate real leveling effects—usually the victory over inequality is short-lived.
View ArticleFriday Roundup, March 14th
Finn Jones as Danny Rand in Iron Fist (Image: Netflix).Comes now Joel Alicea opining in this month's Forum on Richard Epstein's essay "In Defense of the Classical Liberal Constitution." Hank Clark of...
View ArticleInnovation in the Twenty-First Century
Finn Jones as Danny Rand in Iron Fist (Image: Netflix).Thomas Piketty’s book Capital in the Twenty-First Century has gotten a better reception from left-liberals than any book since Limits to Growth....
View ArticlePromoting Innovation in the Twenty-First Century
Finn Jones as Danny Rand in Iron Fist (Image: Netflix).In my last post, I discussed how the nature of innovation in our time raises questions for Thomas Piketty’s forecast of increasing inequality in...
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The New Cronyism of the Old Rent-Seeking State
In response to: The Rise of Adversarial Corporatism Michael Greve’s essay vividly describes some deeply troubling trends in the relationship between the government and the economy. It provides a much...
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America Has Gone Wobbly
The American experiment has always been a rickety thing, a wobbly stool balanced on the three legs of its politics, its economics, and its public morals. From its founding, the United States had a...
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Rebuilding the Liberty Narrative: A Conversation with Gordon Lloyd
There is nothing more arduous than the apprenticeship of liberty, Tocqueville informs. While equality in modern democratic society is a natural tendency—one that grows without much effort—it is liberty...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Rich You Will Always Have With You
Walter Scheidel writes that only revolutions of a certain character demonstrate real leveling effects—usually the victory over inequality is short-lived.
View ArticleClik here to view.
Thomas Piketty and the False Promise of “Solidarity”
Thomas Piketty speaking in Tokyo, Japan, January 29, 2015 (Image: Sho Tamura/AFLO/Alamy Live News)Professor Piketty has the equivalent in politics of stone-deafness in music.
View ArticleFriday Roundup, March 14th
Comes now Joel Alicea opining in this month’s Forum on Richard Epstein’s essay “In Defense of the Classical Liberal Constitution.” Hank Clark of the BB&T Center for the Study of Capitalism at...
View ArticleInnovation in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty’s book Capital in the Twenty-First Century has gotten a better reception from left-liberals than any book since Limits to Growth. The books have important similarities. Both posit...
View ArticlePromoting Innovation in the Twenty-First Century
In my last post, I discussed how the nature of innovation in our time raises questions for Thomas Piketty’s forecast of increasing inequality in his new book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century. In...
View ArticleThomas Piketty and the False Promise of “Solidarity”
According to many philosophers, starting with Kant, existence is not a predicate, but whether this is so or not, the first time I have ever seen it praised as something meritorious in itself was in a...
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