School Inc.: Market Innovation Can Save American Education
In Korea, top teachers make millions.
Insane News Tidbits
The biggest casualty from the COVID-19 pandemic has nothing to do with the disease. It’s the power we’ve given to politicians and bureaucrats.
The Guns of August: A Look Back at the Financial Shock of the Great War
The crisis of 2020 has invited a lot of comparisons to the past, particularly the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 and to various war efforts. For those concerned with banking, public finance and monetary policy, the summer of 1914 might be a more appropriate candidate.
Child of Freedom, Parent of Prosperity: Matt Ridley’s “How Innovation Works”
Hopefully, How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom will inspire others to champion the planting of the seeds of innovation while protecting the soil of freedom that this precious and most delicate of flowers – that “child of freedom and parent of prosperity” — thrives on.
Free Trade vs. The Folly of Protectionism
Protectionism fully implemented across all industries would mean a lower standard of living, because it would result in capital and labor unnecessarily being diverted into the production of goods that could more economically be produced elsewhere.
No Recovery Without Production
“Saving lives” is inseparable from saving livelihoods.
Shutdown’s Silver Lining: A Taste of Homeschooling
A silver lining to this pandemic is that now more parents are learning about their options outside the government schooling system.
To Dream The Fossil Fuel Free Dream
Pandemic or not, the dream of abandoning fossil fuels is just a dream—a suicidal one
Rotten Education Isn’t Preordained
Poor performance is often blamed on finances; however, the poorest performing schools have the highest per-pupil spending.
