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To Reach ‘Peak Human,’ Let Freedom Fuel Civilization
Authors rarely get it right the first time. For three decades, Swedish historian and liberal debater Johan Norberg has made…
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But Lagarde, Europe Is a Museum!
“Europe is a museum, Japan is a nursing home, China is a jail, and bitcoin is an experiment.” These were…
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Returns to College Investments: Requiem for a Financial Dream
It’s really not a simple task to figure out if college is “worth it” — financially speaking or even personally.…
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‘One From the Many’: Meissner’s Economic History Shines—Until It Doesn’t
The most important thing a book on the economic history of the world must emphasize, again and again, is the…
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Golden Hiccups in our Modern Financial System
Last time this much gold crossed the Atlantic, the French were repatriating their gold reserves from New York — in…
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Can Behavioral Economics Explain America’s Gun Violence Epidemic?
In the 2022 BBC show Inside Man, Stanley Tucci’s character (Jefferson Grieff), an inmate on death row, says something dramatic…
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The Nvidia Way: How Nvidia Became the Most Valuable Company in History
Nvidia became the world’s most valuable company out of the blue — almost. Adding trillions to its market capitalization within…
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Benjamin Graham and How to Invest Like a Legend
I learned stock analysis and financial accounting from an online nym called “Lundaluppen.” It was the early 2010s, blogging was…
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Public Goods in a Free Society
"Even under this supposed solution to a market failure, we’re getting less public goods than we get shafted for. Like…
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Foot Voting Reconsidered: How Should I Think About Leaving?
"Compared to ballot voting, moving has larger individual impacts, which mean greater incentives to acquire knowledge; it provides a better…
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