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Reflections On The Evolution Of Trade Policy

Reflections On The Evolution Of Trade Policy

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 02/07/2018

Forbes has published an article by Fred Smith detailing the effects of renegotiation and its effects on the North American economy as well as the…

Immigration

Forbes

Does a Market Economy Encourage Altruism?

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 11/13/2017

Are markets inherently altruistic? I thought of that question after attending a recent conference, co-sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI)…

Capitalism

Forbes

Reflections on the Evolution of Trade Policy

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 11/03/2017

The Trump administration’s renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) could launch a trade war with our major trading partners,…

Trade and International

The Wall Street Journal

Oil and Spectrum Rights Models Offer a Clue

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 10/10/2017

Thomas W. Hazlett’s “How Politics Stalls Wireless Innovation” (op-ed, Oct. 2) outlines the irrationality of the current political mismanagement of the electromagnetic spectrum and…

Capitalism

Forbes

International Freedom Fighters Organize in Miami

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 07/06/2017

Fans of free markets and limited government have a new place to seek allies. Recently Conservatives International, a new global advocacy organization, was launched…

Capitalism

Forbes

Happy Birthday, Adam Smith!

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 06/15/2017

June 16, 1723, is the birth date of Adam Smith, a Scottish intellectual greatly admired for clarifying the virtuous, self-organizing nature of free markets. Smith…

Capitalism

The Conservative Online

Market Institutions Never Evolved For The Environment; And That’s Why It Can’t Be Properly Protected

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr., Iain Murray
  • 03/15/2017

As Joseph Schumpeter noted, free markets had a good first century (the 1750s to 1850s). A market economy produced massive improvements in the quality of…

Business and Government

Fox Business

A Trade Policy to Boost American Competitiveness

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr., Marc Scribner
  • 01/24/2017

President Donald Trump’s early actions on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, North American Free Trade Agreement, and the nomination of avowed protectionists to key roles have shaken…

Trade and International

Forbes

Trump Must Take On The Cronyism Challenge

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 01/09/2017

For President-elect Donald Trump to deliver on his “make American great again,” promise, economic growth must again exceed today’s anemic rate. Reforming tax policy, reducing…

Business and Government

The Claremont Review of Books

Bullying Culture

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 12/19/2016

Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberley Strassel has written an insightful, important book on the Left’s efforts to drive market-friendly voices from the public square. A…

Business and Government

The Claremont Review of Books

The Progressive Era’s Derailment of Classical Liberal Evolution

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 12/17/2016

  It is true that where a considerable part of the costs incurred are external costs from the point of view of the acting individuals…

Business and Government

Forbes

Lessons From A Decade Of “Conscious Capitalism”

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 11/11/2016

What can 220 CEOs learn at a “Conscious Capitalism” conference? Perhaps valuable insights into the purpose and value of their businesses. Perhaps also, ways to…

Capitalism and Free Enterprise

Forbes

Is Capitalism Worth Defending?

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 10/24/2016

In an election season poised to set new records for voter fatigue, we’ve seen a lot of negativity about major American institutions, including…

Capitalism

Forbes

Classical Liberalism Alive And Well In Miami

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 10/11/2016

It’s difficult to wage a war without allies, and the War of Ideas is no different. Yet, capitalist defenders—free market intellectuals and wealth-creating business leaders—rarely…

Capitalism

Forbes

Brexit Planners Should Look To The U.S. For Inspiration

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 09/01/2016

In June, British voters voted to leave the European Union, whose bureaucracy had imposed alien laws and regulations on them for decades. The EU system…

Business and Government

Forbes

Capitalism and the Candidates

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 08/15/2016

As a longtime advocate for capitalism, I’ve been considering the prospects for free market ideas in a White House presided over by either of the…

Business and Government

Forbes

New Hostility To High Finance Has Ancient Roots

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 08/04/2016

Recently, the Republicans assembled in Cleveland approved a platform that includes some praiseworthy planks on government reform, but one provision stood out as a jarring…

Capitalism

Forbes

Manage Water Like Oil To Increase Supply

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 07/07/2016

Some of the natural resources we use every day are traded freely in the market economy, while others are heavily regulated and controlled by government…

Capitalism

Wall Street Journal

Amnesia? We Remember the Lack of a Cushion

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 06/07/2016

As longtime critics of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac who warned early on that they could destabilize the financial system, we were shocked by Douglas…

Business and Government

Forbes

What CEOs Should Be Saying About Inequality

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 05/27/2016

Despite living at a time of unprecedented decreases in poverty around the world, we’re witnessing a seemingly unprecedented increase in worry about income…

Business and Government

Forbes

When Anything Could Be The ‘Next Tobacco’

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 05/03/2016

When political operators win big with a clever legal strategy, you can be sure it’ll be used again. One strategy that paid off handsomely for…

Business and Government

Forbes

Three Decades On, The Fight For Economic Freedom Continues

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 03/09/2016

Americans want honorable, thoughtful government but are no longer sure that result is possible. Government has now grown so gigantic, arrogant, powerful, and pervasive that…

Business and Government

Forbes

Super Bowl Ads Need To Reach Both Citizens And Consumers

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 02/10/2016

As an observer of corporate advertising, I found the quality and style of the Super Bowl 50 ads disappointing. Once again, there were plenty of…

Capitalism

Forbes

The Chipotle Effect: When Companies Believe Their Own Hype

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 02/02/2016

Earlier this week the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finally closed the books on the investigation of the E. coli outbreaks at multiple…

Capitalism

The Washington Examiner

What the Near-Death of the Railroad Industry Can Teach American Business Leaders

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr., Marc Scribner
  • 01/02/2016

Business executives deal with the spiraling cost of complying with government regulation every day. This burden has become so large and pervasive that many have…

Capitalism

Forbes

How Cars Saved The Montgomery Bus Boycott

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 12/04/2015

December 5, 1955, was a key date in the struggle to eliminate racial segregation laws in the United States. On that date, the African American…

Business and Government

Forbes

Congress Is A Terrible Business Partner

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 11/30/2015

We are beginning to see the unraveling of the Faustian bargain that private health insurance companies made with the Obama administration and the Democratic-controlled Congress…

Business and Government

Forbes

Virtuous Capitalism In Theory And Practice

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr., Ryan Young
  • 11/17/2015

Capitalism has a bad reputation. Many people see it as corrupt, uncaring, and in bed with politicians. And popular wisdom isn’t always wrong. For example,…

Business and Government

Forbes

The Real Value Of ‘Networking’ In The Business World

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 10/21/2015

Fred Smith discusses "The Real Value of Networking" in Forbes Beating up on capitalism – and business leaders generally – is all the…

Capitalism

Forbes

An Honest Economist In A PC World

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 10/16/2015

Forbes features Fred's Smith describes economist's Larry Summer's helpful advice for the developing world which is often criticized as politically incorrect.  Larry Summers…

The Washington Post

Deregulation and Privatization Are the Ways Forward

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 10/11/2015

In his Oct. 8 op-ed column, “A global economy in peril,” Lawrence Summers argued that current bond prices are a sign that government debt…

Capitalism

Forbes

The Next Generation Of Capitalists

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 09/17/2015

Ten years after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans has made a tremendous comeback. That’s due not just to the hard work of natives…

Capitalism

Cap X

CapX Reviews: By the People

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 09/13/2015

Charles Murray, in his new book, By the People: Rebuilding Liberty without Permission, argues that America’s constitutional checks on the growth of spending, taxation, and…

Capitalism

Forbes

A New History Of American Business

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 09/08/2015

Government intervention in the economy—via spending, regulation, and taxation—has expanded steadily over the last century and is now at an all-time high. As economist Joseph…

Capitalism

Forbes

Students Dive Into The Political Shark Tank

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 08/10/2015

Recently I was a presenter and participant in a workshop organized by the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE). The event, “Communicating Liberty: Shark Tank,”…

Capitalism

Forbes

Experimenting In The Laboratory Of Economics

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 08/03/2015

Nobel Prize-winning economist Vernon Smith was in Australia last week to lecture at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management in Sydney. In addition to his…

Capitalism

Forbes

The Pope, Poverty And Global Warming

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 06/15/2015

The world waits in anticipation as Pope Francis and his advisers finalize an official Vatican statement on climate change and the environment – expected out…

Capitalism

Forbes

Why Human Achievement Is Worth Celebrating

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 03/27/2015

This Saturday marks the seventh annual observance of “Human Achievement Hour,” a celebration of technology and prosperity hosted by my organization, the Competitive Enterprise…

Capitalism

Forbes

Enhancing The Private Role For ‘Public Goods’

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 03/23/2015

John Kenneth Galbraith once observed that in America our gardens are beautiful, while our public parks are in a state of disaster. While Galbraith saw…

Lands and Wildlife

Human Events

Why Capitalist Virtue Beats Cronyist Sin

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr., Lawson Bader
  • 03/09/2015

At a breakout session during the recent Conservative Political Action Conference, one of us posed a question to the audience: What do members of the…

Forbes

A Valentine For Capitalism

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 02/13/2015

The notes and cards we exchange on Valentine’s Day cover a wide range of emotions—from intimate love letters for that special someone to the simple…

Capitalism

Investor's Business Daily

Save Capitalism With Those Ads On Super Bowl

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 02/02/2015

With another Super Bowl comes another venerable tradition — the contest to produce the best ads. It's the biggest event of the advertising year —…

Capitalism

Forbes

From Mutual Aid To Modern Insurance: How Capitalism Eased The Pain Of Death

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 01/27/2015

We all die. And we all need to make provisions for that eventuality—especially if we have dependents or goals extending into the future. In traditional…

Capitalism

Forbes

Two Cheers For Cuba Libre

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 01/06/2015

President Obama’s recent decision to restore diplomatic relations with Cuba was welcomed by many free marketers, but met with skepticism by those who favor political…

Capitalism

Forbes

A Better Way To Help Our Fellow Man

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 12/17/2014

As we enter the Christmas season, the question of our responsibility to our fellow man (and woman) arises. When we see people in need, how…

Capitalism

Forbes

Confessions Of A Capitalist

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 11/18/2014

The recent remake of The Manchurian Candidate is a curious thing. While it repeats most of the plot of the 1962 original, the North Korean…

Capitalism

Forbes

A Truly Frightening Halloween in our Future?

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 10/31/2014

This article was originally published at Forbes on October 31, 2014 For many of us, Halloween brings back many fond memories. We recall the…

Capitalism

Forbes

The Least Important Election of Your Lifetime

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 10/22/2014

The November midterm elections are around the corner and as usual, the airwaves are filled with frenzied appeals to vote for one candidate or another…

Capitalism

Forbes

Defending the Virtue of the Business World at Home and Abroad

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 10/07/2014

A new CNBC/Burson-Marsteller poll on attitudes toward business in both developed and emerging economies reveals some troubling findings. While business leaders in the U.S.

Capitalism

Cato Journal: Fall 2014 Vol. 34 No. 3

Cato Journal: “Unstoppable” Book Review

  • By: Fred L. Smith, Jr.
  • 10/01/2014

This article was originally published in the Fall 2014 Edition of the Cato Institute Journal. Read the Full Review…

Capitalism

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