Friday Feature: Burbrella Learning Academy
Colleen Hroncich When education was disrupted during the pandemic, Dominique Burgess didn’t waste time. An educator with more than a decade of experience, she had started Burbrella Education pre‐COVID‐19 to support parents, teachers, and school leaders with coaching and support. In spring
Latest Census Numbers on Household Income Show Long-Term Progress in an Era of Increased Globalization
Daniel Griswold The Census Bureau reported this week that real median household income in the United States fell in 2022 for the third year in a row. We can debate the underlying causes of the setback, but the report shouldn’t obscure the
The Great Phony Disinflation Enters Its Finale
Supposedly, the "big news" is the decline of inflation. However, the monetary and political forces driving the latest bout of inflation have not gone away. Original Article: "The Great Phony Disinflation Enters Its Finale"
Happy Yeltsin Supermarket Day!
Scott Lincicome Thirty‐four years ago tomorrow, Boris Yeltsin — then a newly elected member of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union — visited NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, where he toured the U.S. government facility and the various technologies
The Censorship Industrial Complex Exposes the Kleptocracy’s True Intentions
In the past decade, the growth of the Internet and social media has brought with it a dramatic uptick in populist sentiment. Legacy institutions have declared war against populism, referring to its claims as “misinformation” or “disinformation” and calling on
Can We Find a Basis for Private Property Rights?
Property and Justice: A Liberal Theory of Natural Rightsby Billy ChristmasRoutledge, 2021; xii + 184 pp. What is the basis for property rights? Murray Rothbard’s answer starts from self-ownership. Each person owns himself and on that basis can acquire unowned resources
Dollar Hegemony Is Ending Due to Geopolitical Changes
Since the end of World War II, the US dollar has been the world's reserve currency. That status may well change because US monetary authorities insist on inflating the dollar into oblivion. Original Article: "Dollar Hegemony Is Ending Due to Geopolitical Changes"
Teaching consumer surplus with the Becker-DeGroot-Marschak method in an environmental and resource economics course
The other day in my intro environmental and natural resource economics class we used the BDM method to elicit willingness to pay (WTP) values for an App State travel tumbler (I paid $26 with a faculty discount at the university
How Does One Define “Libertarian”?
The Economist reported on August 14, 2023, that “Argentina could get its first libertarian president.” They added that Javier Milei, the winner of Argentina’s election primary was, imagine this, a “free-market radical.” The problem, as I see it, is that
Beyond Crisis: The Ratchet Effect and the Erosion of Liberty
After governments create crises, they use those crises to seize new powers. After the crisis subsides, governments give up some, but not all, of their new authority, which we call the ratchet effect. Original Article: "Beyond Crisis: The Ratchet Effect and