by Dan Mitchell | Jan 30, 2022 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
I only share long videos when they satisfy key criteria, such as being very informative and very educational. This video from Arthur Brooks is both. What I like most is that he does a very good job of showing that concern for the disadvantaged is the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 17, 2022 | Blogs, Economics
To explain why politicians should not interfere with prices, I’ve shared videos from Marginal Revolution, Don Boudreaux, Learn Liberty, and Russ Roberts. To add to that collection, here’s part of a lecture by Professor Antony Davies. The bottom...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 9, 2022 | Blogs, Economics
There are many well-meaning people who support statist policies such as punitive taxation because they believe in the zero-sum fallacy, which is explained in this short video by Madsen Pirie of London’s Adam Smith Institute. The zero-sum fallacy is especially noxious...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 8, 2022 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
I have shared five videos (Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, and Part V) that make the case for capitalism. Here’s a sixth example. The video notes that poverty was the natural condition for humanity (notwithstanding the economic...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 6, 2022 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market, Welfare and Entitlements
I created the Eighth Theorem of Government to illustrate the difference between well-meaning people (who want to help the poor) and zero-sum people (who seem to think some people are poor because other people are rich). This raises the...
