Business and Government

• By: Iain Murray
• 04/29/2021

One of the points I make in The Socialist Temptation is that today’s “democratic socialists” don’t really know what they mean by socialism. Nor…

Capitalism

• 04/16/2021

View Full Document as PDF Dear Chairman Wyden, Chairman Neal, Ranking Member Crapo, and Ranking Member Brady: On behalf of the undersigned taxpayer,…

Capitalism

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/14/2021

Fox Business cites Research Fellow Richard Morrison on ESG: ESG advocates are likely to try to stretch the definition of material as…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/13/2021

How did corporate America, long considered one of the most conservative American institutions, become a lead protagonist in a culture war over all manner of…

Capitalism

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/09/2021

New polling, recently written up at Reason, shows that the American public isn’t nearly as hostile to capitalism, and the leaders of big…

Capitalism

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/06/2021

A mammoth infrastructure bill is on the way from Congress, and policy-makers are touting a corporate-tax-rate hike to help pay for it. Treasury secretary…

Capitalism

• Sean Higgins
• 03/31/2021

President Joe Biden’s proposed legislative package to increase taxes and spend trillions was released today by the White House. The wide-ranging bill included provisions on…

Capitalism

• By: John Berlau
• 03/25/2021

Senior Fellow John Berlau joins Jim Blasingame to debate the influence private cryptocurrencies could have on the marketplace, our relationship with government, and the viability…

Business and Government

• By: John Berlau
• 03/25/2021

Senior Fellow John Berlau joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the difference between the government’s idea of a digital or crypto-currency and that of the private…

Business and Government

• By: Mario Loyola
• 03/17/2021

Marketplace cites Senior Fellow Mario Loyola on the Biden administration’s infrastructure package: “Once you’re starting to spend, you know, a trillion or…

Capitalism

• 03/17/2021

View Full Document as PDF We, the undersigned organizations, representing millions of Americans and thousands of state and local officials, write to express…

Capitalism

• 03/17/2021

View Full Document as PDF Free to Prosper: A Pro-Growth Agenda for the 117th Congress highlights specific steps lawmakers can take to rein in…

Business and Government

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 03/16/2021

Republican senators may have voted in lockstep against Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, but they still played a role. A year ago, Senators…

Business and Government

• Clyde Wayne Crews, Iain Murray, Myron Ebell
• 03/09/2021

The House of Representatives is expected to vote this week on final passage of the ‘American Rescue Plan Act,’ a $1.9 trillion proposal touted as…

Business and Government

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 02/25/2021

The Washington Times cites Vice President for Policy Wayne Crews on regulations and the Biden administration: “Biden has jettisoned … most of…

Business and Government

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/26/2021

The Trump administration’s trade war gave economics teachers countless real-world examples of bad policy they can use in the classroom. A new open letter…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 01/22/2021

President Biden has chosen former head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Gary Gensler as his nominee to be chair of the Securities and Exchange…

Capitalism

• By: Ryan Young
• 01/04/2021

Antitrust regulation is a complex mess. Multiple agencies have overlapping jurisdiction with no set rules for determining who takes which cases. One of the antitrust…

Antitrust

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/29/2020

It’s early, but The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous by Joseph Henrich will likely be…

Capitalism

• By: Ryan Young
• 12/24/2020

Most people see markets as dens of greed and moral corruption. In their new book, Do Markets Corrupt Our Morals?, Virgil…

Capitalism

• By: Iain Murray
• 12/10/2020

During my virtual “tour” for the release of my book, The Socialist Temptation, certain questions came up regularly. I have already set out my…

Capitalism

• John Berlau
• 12/08/2020

The House today is expected to pass a controversial bill impacting a wide swath of American businesses, as part of the must-pass National Defense Authorization…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 12/01/2020

The Department of Labor, under the leadership of Secretary Eugene Scalia, implemented an important (though widely misunderstood) rule this year, regarding how federally regulated pension…

Capitalism

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/25/2020

The manifesto of the Communist party, written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1847 and first published the next year, has a legendary pair…

Capitalism

• Kent Lassman
• 11/17/2020

During this pandemic and time of social unrest, many people wish they could take action and might not think that small, organized steps could positively…

Capitalism and Free Enterprise

• By: Richard Morrison
• 11/06/2020

While most American are still following the final vote counts in the 2020 presidential election, many lower-profile, but still important, issues have been decided at…

Capitalism

• By: Ryan Young
• 11/03/2020

Politics has a way of ruining everything. Even kind and intelligent people go through an instant metamorphosis when the conversation changes to politics. Their body…

Capitalism

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/29/2020

Today, CEI is releasing a new paper on antitrust policy in the European Union by Swiss competition commissioner Henrique Schneider. Europe’s approach to competition…

Antitrust

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/22/2020

On Tuesday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed an antitrust complaint against Google. It marks the beginning of the first major monopolization case since the…

Antitrust

• By: Joel Zinberg
• 10/15/2020

One or more COVID-19 vaccines will likely be approved in the next few months. But this scientific achievement may prove to be the easy part.

Business and Government

• By: Iain Murray
• 10/14/2020

Forty years ago today, President Carter signed the Staggers Act, which deregulated the American freight rail industry. As CEI has long maintained, this…

Business and Government

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/13/2020

A 16 year-long aerospace subsidies dispute between the United States and the European Union began another round this week. The U.S. claims that the EU’s…

Business and Government

• By: Ryan Young
• 10/08/2020

In his 1803 A Treatise on Political Economy, Jean-Baptiste Say writes: "Production is the creation, not of matter, but of utility." That captures one of…

Capitalism

• By: Iain Murray
• 10/08/2020

The Left’s threat to the pack the Court by expanding the number of justices seems to be unpopular. But they have proposed other policies that…

Capitalism

• By: Mario Loyola
• 09/24/2020

I’ve been noodling the idea of launching a Trump Translation Service for the large number of Trumpish phrases that his critics and the media don’t…

Business and Government

• By: Ryan Young
• 09/23/2020

My colleague Jessica Melugin and I, along with our former colleague Patrick Hedger, have a new paper out today, “Repeal #NeverNeeded Antitrust Laws that…

Antitrust

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/23/2020

A shorter version of this post was published as an op-ed in the Washington Examiner last week. The Business Roundtable (BRT), an association of…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/11/2020

The New York Times is observing the 50th anniversary of Milton Friedman’s famous article “The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits”…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/10/2020

My colleague Iain Murray had a fascinating conversation this week with The Remnant’s Jonah Goldberg about his excellent new book, The Socialist Temptation.

Capitalism

• By: Richard Morrison
• 09/01/2020

The business world has recently seen a dramatic increase in the vogue for “socially responsible” rules of behavior. Companies are encouraged to make environmental, social, and…

Capitalism

• By: Iain Murray
• 08/25/2020

Are modern Scandinavian countries actually socialist? This question must be asked because it is a common rhetorical device of “democratic socialist” politicians to wave away…

Business and Government

• By: John Berlau
• 08/13/2020

In 1790, the United States of America was a new nation, but Moses Seixas was already living what would come to be called the American Dream.

Business and Government

• By: Iain Murray
• 08/07/2020

There is a good piece hidden in philosopher Agnes Callard’s recent article for the New York Times about cancel culture. Unfortunately, that piece is lost in the framing device.

Business and Government

• By: Iain Murray
• 08/07/2020

Last week, several self-proclaimed Democratic Socialists defeated long-serving Democratic incumbents in New York State primaries. One of the insurgents, Zohran Mamdani, tweeted out the words, “Socialism won.” His pinned tweet on…

Business and Government

• By: Iain Murray
• 08/07/2020

One of the most important things I learned at the feet of Fred Smith, founder of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, was that most Americans don’t…

Business and Government

• By: Iain Murray
• 08/07/2020

In the 1953 classic film The Wild One, a girl asks Marlon Brando’s smoldering Johnny Strabler what he is rebelling against. He answers, “What’ve you got?”…

Business and Government

• 08/03/2020

The Duluth News Tribune references CEI senior fellow Mario Loyola’s writing on the Jones Act: Mario Loyola, a senior fellow with the Competitive Enterprise Institute,…

Antitrust

• By: Iain Murray, John Berlau
• 08/03/2020

American Greatness cites CEI senior fellows John Berlau and Iain Murray: The U.S. House of Representatives and Senate are considering bills for additional coronavirus relief…

Business and Government

• By: Jessica Melugin
• 07/31/2020

In Wednesday’s antitrust hearing with the CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google, questions from liberal members of Congress laid the groundwork for expanding the…

Antitrust

• By: Richard Morrison
• 07/29/2020

At the end of last month the Department of Labor published a new notice of proposed rulemaking on the investment choices that private pension fund…

Business and Government

• By: Iain Murray
• 07/28/2020

The way to reach people is by making sure a policy accorded with their values. In his new book, The Socialist Temptation, Iain Murray argues…

Business and Government

• By: Ryan Young
• 07/23/2020

Massive shortages happened almost instantly when it became clear that the coronavirus would require a nationwide lockdown. Both Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and an Amazon…

Antitrust

• By: Iain Murray
• 07/17/2020

In his forthcoming book, The Socialist Temptation, Iain Murray talks about how socialism in China produced the Cultural Revolution. The text of the book was…

Business and Government

• Clyde Wayne Crews, Iain Murray, Myron Ebell
• 07/01/2020

House Democrats will vote today on the INVEST in America Act (H.R. 2), a massive $1.5 trillion infrastructure spending bill. CEI experts across a spectrum…

Business and Government

• By: John Berlau
• 06/29/2020

Those who have followed CEI over the years know that one of our main grievances is “Regulation Without Representation.” The phrase—an apt description of laws…

Business and Government

• By: Iain Murray
• 06/17/2020

Government agencies’ initial responses to the COVID-19 crisis were notable for one particular characteristic: incompetence. From basic errors in data collection, through failed lab safety…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 06/16/2020

Capitalism’s populist critics, on both left and right, have got their critique backward—not only are earnings and economic opportunity not evaporating, as they claim, but…

Business and Government

• By: Ryan Young
• 06/12/2020

Price gouging legislation routinely backfires. Price controls make shortages worse. In a crisis, this is especially harmful. And even if price gouging legislation were to…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 06/05/2020

Advocates of “social responsibility” and environmental, social, and governance standards for companies have little interest in their proposed requirements being voluntary, despite frequent protestations to…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 06/03/2020

The Financial Times reported that many companies have cut dividends to shareholders because they are struggling with the current economic downturn. But even after we’ve…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 05/29/2020

Iain Murray has a great essay up at Law & Liberty today on why some groups of Americans are perceiving quarantine policies so differently from…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 05/22/2020

One on the main goals of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Advancing Capitalism is for more business leaders to prioritize the defense of the…

Business and Government

• By: Ryan Young
• 05/15/2020

Amazon’s vice president of public policy calls for a federal price gouging law in a recent post over at Amazon’s in-house blog. This is a…

Antitrust

• By: Sean Higgins
• 05/13/2020

Should U.S. taxpayer dollars be loaned to strip clubs? What would have sounded like a joke just a few months ago is now a reality…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 05/13/2020

Long before we began debating the wisdom of neoconservative foreign policy, Irving Kristol was writing about domestic economic policy and the future of capitalism. His…

Business and Government

• By: Iain Murray
• 05/01/2020

As governors begin to lift restrictions on economic activity, polling data show that Americans are generally still afraid of the virus and have changed their…

Business and Government

• By: Kent Lassman, Patrick Hedger
• 05/01/2020

As state and local restrictions begin to relax, the essential questions for many people are remarkably similar to what we asked in March. What will…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/30/2020

Now that government officials and business owners are planning for a “semi-normal” phase of post-quarantine reopening, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s recent “Implementing a National…

Business and Government

• By: Jessica Melugin
• 04/29/2020

Launching another antitrust investigation into Amazon won’t benefit consumers. The U.S. antitrust law standard is consumer harm. To stretch antitrust investigations to include data, privacy,…

Antitrust

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/13/2020

When the stay-at-home orders are lifted, we’ll be in a race to get millions of Americans back to work. Large companies will be in a…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 04/10/2020

Positive stories about win-win results from the march of automation are everywhere in our economy, but they don’t get told and repeated enough. The workers…

Business and Government

• By: Ryan Young
• 04/01/2020

The coronavirus pandemic needs a long-term policy response.

Business and Government

• By: Jessica Melugin
• 04/01/2020

The Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission will now allow some collaboration between companies to address the corona virus health threat. They also warned a…

Antitrust

• By: Ryan Young
• 03/30/2020

On Friday evening, the Trump administration announced it would stop collecting all tariff revenue for three months, effective immediately. In ordinary times, the news would…

Business and Government

• By: Myron Ebell
• 03/27/2020

The Senate passed a $2 trillion COVID-19 relief and economic stimulus bill by a 96-0 vote. The House passed the bill by voice vote on March 27. The…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/27/2020

The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation recently hosted its latest virtual event, “Reforming Antitrust Policy for an Era of Global Competitiveness.” ITIF President Rob Atkinson…

Antitrust

• By: Patrick J. Michaels
• 03/26/2020

The Take Responsibility for Workers and Families Act is the most irresponsible piece of fiscal legislation to come out of the profligate Congress for a…

Business and Government

• By: Patrick Hedger
• 03/25/2020

After attempting to cover up the spread of the novel coronavirus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chinese Communist Party is now engaged in a…

Business and Government

• 03/25/2020

We, the undersigned 26 organizations, on behalf of more than 250 million taxpayers  and consumers across these United States, urge you in the strongest possible…

Business and Government

• Clyde Wayne Crews, Iain Murray, John Berlau, Kent Lassman, Marc Scribner, Myron Ebell, Patrick Hedger, Ryan Young
• 03/23/2020

While the nation suffers, Washington has descended into an unseemly squabble over the latest COVID-19 relief bill. Politicians from all quarters are attempting to expand…

Business and Government

• 03/19/2020

Amidst all these temporary war powers, rules, regulations, commands, restrictions, bailouts, and stimulus packages, it is wise to remember the words of Milton Friedman: “Nothing…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/17/2020

There are quite a few hot takes circulating at the moment about how grocery stores temporarily running out of toilet paper amid the current coronavirus…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/12/2020

This week Sen. Pat Toomey gave an excellent and much-needed speech at the Heritage Foundation on capitalism and its right-leaning critics. Toomey made clear that…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 03/04/2020

Free-market advocates are understandably skeptical of “stakeholder” capitalism—the idea that corporate managers should focus not just on returns to shareholders, but on pleasing a potentially…

Antitrust

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/28/2020

Former Export-Import Bank Chairman Fred Hochberg recently made an appearance at the American Enterprise Institute to promote his new book, Trade Is Not a Four…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/27/2020

Cornell University historian Lawrence Glickman has mined an impressive volume of documents and diversity of sources in order to understand the meaning of a potent…

Business and Government

• By: Richard Morrison
• 02/27/2020

Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has written a bold and, for the most part, very good op-ed on the future of…

Business and Government