in turn enable further types of interactions beyond the realm of business. The genius of the market is that it enables a wide array of individuals, groupings, and associations to organize spontaneously to advance their various interests in a cooperative fashion that yields win-win arrangements.
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Don’t Panic: A Skeptic’s Guide to the AI Jobs Doomsday
As technology advances it has periodically bred the fear that progress will destroy jobs and livelihoods. History teaches that these fears are usually misplaced.
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Free the Economy podcast: The Great Realignment with Stephen Davies
In this week’s episode we cover US companies getting hammered by tariffs, jobs that are surprisingly not getting replaced by AI,…
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Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations at 250
Last week I participated in a National Association of Scholars event on the 250th anniversary of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations. The…
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Climate Disclosure Spam
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Free the Economy podcast: Up from poverty with Josh Bandoch
In this week’s episode we cover pork-barrel spending in Congress, reform of federal guidance documents, restaurants with minimum age requirements,…
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Free the Economy podcast: Economic facts and vibes with Joey Politano
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Report considers economist Adam Smith’s guide to life, loveliness, and the modern economy
Upon the 300 year anniversary birth year of legendary economist Adam Smith, the Competitive Enterprise Institute today published a collection of essays exploring…
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Free the Economy podcast: Liberty movement jobs with Claire Kittle Dixon
In this week’s episode we cover the war on prices, the great un-wokening of corporate America, the attack on credit…
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Distinguished guests celebrate liberty movement jubilee
I recently returned to D.C. from Tampa, Florida, where I attended the 60th anniversary meeting (“Diamond Jubilee”) of the Philadelphia Society. For those…
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Free the Economy podcast: Frontier economics with Kendall Cotton
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FACT CHECK: Biden touts inflation has “fallen”
CEI’s Ryan Young is cited in The Center Square on a Biden fact check: Ryan Young, senior economist at the Competitive Enterprise…
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More credit card competition? Not really
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Free the Economy podcast: Free markets and the common good with Iain Murray
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SEC’s climate disclosure rule is redundant and vulnerable to legal challenge
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released its final climate disclosure rule today, mandating public companies disclose information related to greenhouse gas emissions.
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In bumper-sticker fashion, we have fondly summed up Joe Biden’s recent State of the Union Addresses (SOTU) as appeals for more spending, regulation…
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Free the Economy podcast: Politically homeless with John Tillman
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Free the Economy podcast: Moving the rocks off the lawn with Andrew Langer
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Report: SEC climate disclosure rule imposes costs without value
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is finalizing a rule to require publicly traded companies to disclose climate and energy-use related data and information.
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Free the Economy podcast: Against crony capitalism with Nick Sorrentino
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A promising 40th anniversary year for CEI
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Big Business Took A Beating From Conservatives Over Woke Marketing In 2023, But Did It Change Anything?
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Free the Economy podcast: Making college pay with Preston Cooper
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Free the Economy podcast: Getting out of control with Neil Chilson
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Free the Economy podcast: The trouble with big-government conservatives with André Béliveau
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What we’re not seeing here: Why policy debates need Bastiat
I was honored to give a presentation this week to the George Mason University Economics Society. The title of my presentation was “Unseen Consequences:…
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Free the Economy podcast: Polling capitalism with Karlyn Bowman
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Free the Economy podcast: Financial regulation and ESG with Hester Peirce
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Free the Economy podcast: Threats to economic freedom, then and now with Iain Murray
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Net neutrality is political predation
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Reevaluating the Influence of James Buchanan on Libertarian Thought
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The Powell Memo was good, actually
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Leftwing conspiracy theories about 1971 “Powell memo” debunked in new CEI report
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Threats Then and Threats Now
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The Moral Foundations of Freedom Conservatism
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Free the Economy Episode 33: Federal Trade Commission Failures with Kimberlee Josephson
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