by Dan Mitchell | Aug 28, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market, Socialism
Part I of this series featured Dan Hannan explaining how the emergence of capitalism led to mass prosperity, while Part II featured Madeline Grant explaining how competition and cooperation make markets so successful. Today, in Part III, Andy Puzder compares...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 24, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
Yesterday, in Part I of this series, we enjoyed a video from the U.K.-based Centre for Economic Education, about how capitalism lifted the world from deprivation and oppression (also see videos by Don Boudreaux and Deirdre McCloskey). Today, in Part II of the Case for...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 23, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
This video from Dan Hannan crams 10,000 years of human history into 5 minutes. We learn about the “stationary bandit” of government and find out how our ancestors endured pervasive oppression and misery. But there’s a happy ending to the story. It’s called capitalism....
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 8, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market, Socialism
I periodically share tweets that have some sort of remarkable feature, either good or bad. Clever counter-tweets are especially appreciated. I even started giving recognition to the most brutally effective response each year. In 2019, the counter-tweet of the...
by Dan Mitchell | Jul 5, 2020 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market
I don’t know whether I’ll live 3 more years or 30 more years. But I’m increasingly convinced that my “Never-Answered Question” will still be unanswered when I kick the bucket. One of the reasons for my confidence is that folks on the left have remarkably shoddy...
