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Science Recognizes Self-Organization As The Best Strategy To Deal With Complexity. Top-Down Government Is The Worst Strategy.

January 13, 2021

Top-down political beliefs and the governments they directed were created long before we had any knowledge and understanding of how these natural systems work. But now we do know of these fact- and reality-based processes. Our political beliefs and governmental organizations should adjust to these recently discovered facts immediately.

Centralized Government Controls Imperil The Communities In Which Our Lives Have Meaning.

January 12, 2021

Freedoms which, until a few months ago, we had taken for granted, have been taken away. We now have to make do with enforced social distancing, stay-at-home orders, and warnings of Armageddon to come if we do not comply. As a consequence of such harsh restrictions, we have been robbed, ultimately, of the freedom to be ourselves.

Why The New Deal Is The Most Undeservedly Deified Chapter In U.S. History.

January 11, 2021

Painful though they are, recessions are a necessary cleansing, much like a hangover after tying one on the night before. An economy gets purged of its excess and bad practices, and resources are consequently redeployed to more valuable endeavors. When left alone, an economy is much more likely to snap back strongly, quickly.

Jeff Bezos Makes Us 49 Times Richer Than We Make Him.

January 10, 2021

The new economy's industries are marked by easy entrance and exit: bright ideas were readily funded, but imitators are just as quick to follow. Additionally, information is expensive to produce but inexpensive to reproduce, a factor that will erode the value of intellectual property rights and reduce the durability of Schumpeterian profits in that sector.

Markets Work. Government Doesn’t.

January 9, 2021

California’s Secretary of Health and Human Services, Mark Ghaly, let the mask (pun intended) slip on December 9 when he admitted that the newly imposed ban on outdoor dining was “not a comment on the relative safety of outdoor dining”, but rather had to do “with the goal of keeping people at home.”

Get Ready For The Californication Of America.

January 8, 2021

Californians are witnessing the fruits of the Democrats’ relentless determination to control government. After having successfully shoved Republicans off to the fringes, the state has imposed a seemingly endless series of tax hikes, intrusive environmental regulations, and costly mandates on businesses.

Your Attitude And My Attitude Are The Sources Of Economic Growth And National Prosperity.

January 7, 2021

With time, the modernist emphasis on increasing knowledge—and the presumption that there is always more knowledge to come—triumphed over traditional emphases on capital, scale, commerce, and trade. But where did that knowledge come from? Whose “ingenuity” was it?

Unions Fight For Teachers At The Expense Of Our Children.

January 6, 2021

Thomas Sowell points out that while only 10 percent of the traditional public schools he studied had a majority of students passing at the “proficient” level on the mathematics exam, 68 percent of charter schools achieved that level. When it comes to the English test, the numbers are 14 percent and 65 percent respectively.

Cast Down Your Bucket Where You Are: Entrepreneurs Must Use The Institutions of Entrepreneurship To Thrive In the Technological Epoch

January 5, 2021

Within the institutions of entrepreneurship, one should be able to drop down their bucket where they are. Institutions of entrepreneurship should make room for new entrepreneurial participants via technological devices, i.e., smartphones, tablets, laptops. Higher levels of entrepreneurship are not the cause but the effect of technological advancements.

Only Capitalism qua Capitalism Saves the Planet From the Slavery’s Equality

January 4, 2021

The unknown ideal, the ultimate solution to social domination, and its horrid extreme - slavery, is the self-evident morality of capitalism. It is the socioeconomic system that bans force from all voluntary, human interaction. Free markets are rooted in rational self-interest, its foundation is the morally derived principle of rights, and their axiomatic truth is in the primacy of existence.

It’s Time to Stop Believing These Political Myths We Are Fed.

January 3, 2021

Perhaps the biggest myth to die this year was that Americans’ constitutional rights are safeguarded by the Bill of Rights. After the Covid-19 pandemic began, governors in state after state effectively placed scores of millions of citizens under house arrest – dictates that former Attorney General Bill Barr aptly compared to “the greatest intrusion on civil liberties” since the end of slavery.

These 5 Principles Signal Guaranteed Government Failure.

January 2, 2021

As with every other government regulation, a one-size-fits-all policy is crude and unjust and usually causes more harm than good. Hayekian “local knowledge” is needed in order to address this issue and this is something government is most unlikely to be able to provide.

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Raushan Gross: Socialism Cannot Work, Not Even in an AI-Driven Economy

The Right to Repair: Shouldn’t Americans Have the Right to Fix Their Own Stuff?