by Dan Mitchell | Feb 13, 2021 | Blogs, Economics
My series on poverty and inequality (see here, here, and here) focuses on why we should try to help the poor rather than hurt the rich. We’ll continue with that theme in Part IV, which begins with this video by Russ Roberts of Stanford University’s...
by Dan Mitchell | Feb 5, 2021 | Blogs, Economics
My late friend Walter Williams was a first-rate economist, an important public intellectual, and a truly great American. He also was an amazing communicator, with an unparalleled ability to make important points in a succinct and easy-to-understand manner....
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 12, 2021 | Blogs, Economics
As illustrated by my recent three-part series (here, here, and here), I care about helping the poor rather then hurting the rich. More broadly, I want a bigger economic pie so that everyone can have a larger slice. And I don’t particularly care if some people get...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 1, 2020 | Big Government, Blogs, Welfare and Entitlements
Back in 2017, I compared the welfare state vision of “positive rights” with the classical liberal vision of “negative rights.” To elaborate, here’s a video from Learn Liberty that compares these visions. For what it’s worth, I don’t like the terms “positive rights”...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 22, 2020 | Blogs, Education
There’s a lot of speculation that we’re in the midst of a political realignment, with Democrats becoming the party of the rich and the Republicans becoming the party of the working class. I don’t pretend to know whether this realignment is happening or what form it...
