Study
Adam Smith’s guide to life, loveliness, and the modern economy
Introduction: Going strong at 300 Ryan Young This essay collection celebrates Adam Smith’s 300th birthday. He is best known for being the first modern economist,…
Study
Labor of Love: A Fred Smith Story
View Full Book as PDF Edited by Kent Lassman, Amanda France, and Ivan Osorio INTRODUCTION View Introduction as PDF Everyone…
Study
The Morality and Virtues of Capitalism and the Firm
View Full Document as PDF The case for the morality of capitalism lies in its voluntary nature and its synthesis of self-interest…
Study
Toward a Thinker/Doer Alliance: A Grand Strategy for Liberty Advocates
By Fred L. Smith, Jr. Director, Center for Advancing Capitalism Speech delivered at Hillsdale College Hillsdale, Michigan…
Study
Reviving Capitalism
The near-death and rebirth of American railroads is a case study in business leaders fending off regulation.
Study
Virtuous Capitalism
Is there less corruption in business than we think?…
Study
Learning from the Past, Freeing up the Future: The Political Economy of Regulatory Change
Study
MCOOL and the Politics of Country-of-Origin Labeling
The Mandatory Country-of-Origin Label (MCOOL) for beef and pork products was brought into force by the United States in 2008. It imposes uneven tracking, segregating,…
Study
Markets and the Environment: A Critical Reappraisal
The nature of the environmental problem perhaps is best addressed by reviewing the economic problem. The basic economic problem is scarcity. Demands are unlimited…
Study
A Free-Market Environmental Program
The Soviet Union should not adopt the U.S. approach to protecting the environment. The fact that the United States has a superior environment has far…
Study
Reining in America’s Regulatory Leviathan: America Gets a Second Chance
Liberate to Stimulate Index We at the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) have spent 26 years raising the saliency of regulations on our…
Study
A Solid Waste Estimation Procedure: Material Flows Approach
Study
A Vision for Environmental Policy
Full Document Available in PDF As…
Study
Business Must Fight for Economic Freedom
Business Must Fight for Economic Freedom Fred L. Smith, Jr. President, Competitive Enterprise Institute Written Remarks For the…
Study
Persuasion and Issue-Framing
Study
Are Corporations Suicidal?
Full Document Available in PDF…
Study
Airline Deregulation
If the government deregulates the grid and transitions toward a market solution, the benefits of flow deregulation will increase, and costs for air travelers will…
Study
A Village’s Travail
Full Document Available in PDF Rosia Montana, a poor mining town in the Transylvanian…
Study
Prometheus or Pandora – Addressing the Biotechnology Issue
Biotechnology, the newest way in which man seeks to tease from nature her secrets so as to improve his condition, is under intense scrutiny today.
Study
Review of Robert Nelson’s ‘Economics as Religion’
As an undergraduate math major, I found economics confusing. I understood self-interest: I have a TV, you have a $100 bill, both of…
Study
Tom Smith and His Incredible Bread Machine
In the 108 years since the passage of the Sherman Act, there has probably never been a clearer and more concise statement of the…
Study
The Drug Reimportation Ban
Study
Cowboys Versus Cattle Thieves
Full Document Available in PDF Fred L. Smith, “Cowboys Versus Cattle Thieves,” in…
Study
How to Drive Competition in a “Deregulated” Market
View Full Document as PDF…
Study
The Bankruptcy of Collectivist Environmental Policy
Full Document Available in PDF Classical liberals have done much over…
Study
Excerpts from Solutions for an Environment in Peril
FREE-MARKET ENVIRONMENTALISM Protecting the Environment via Private Property Excerpts from Solutions for an Environment in Peril…
Study
Free Market Environmentalism: Protecting the Environment Via Private Property
Full Document Available in PDF There is an alternative…
Study
The Tragedy of the Commons Revisited: Politics vs. Private Property
Study
Markets and the Environment, A Critical Reappraisal
Full Document Available in PDF The environmental problem is no…
Study
Rethinking Corporate Strategy
The past four years have not been easy for American business. President Bush was trusted to protect economic concerns in areas ranging from the environment…
Study