Nikolai Wenzel
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More Money Can’t Solve Poverty
"From a high of almost 35 percent after World War Two, the poverty rate had already fallen to 19 percent…
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French Exports to Avoid: Wealth Taxes
"Wealth taxes tend to yield low revenue, while dragging down economic growth. But they do make for good politics, especially in…
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Misunderstanding Poverty: a Review of ‘Second Class’
"Frédéric Bastiat famously warned against economic sophisms, the facile myths around free trade and economic policy... Alas, Batya Ungar-Sargon is…
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Communism’s Routine Evil: East German Edition
"Hoyer attempts to provide a sympathetic reading of an alternative to capitalism – one that engaged in brutality, sure, but…
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Assessing Bidenomics: The Fatal Conceit of National Commercial Policy
"Roughly 50 cents out of every dollar of economic activity in the US is controlled by a government, rather than…
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High Costs, Greenlash Hit Europe
"Like any other good, environmental protection has an opportunity cost. Surveys indicate that the majority of Europeans support green laws;…
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Bidenomics and the Slippery Erosion of Economic Freedom
"The Biden Administration claims to promote economic growth and increase competitiveness while choking the economy with rules and regulations." ~Nikolai…
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Please Stop Helping Me! A Homeless Economist Faces Unintended Consequences
"Any decent student in a micro-principles class can tell you that interventions have unintended consequences. Here are some of the 'protections'…
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Jimmy Buffett and the Bourgeois Virtues
"I often find myself lost in the cosmos, as a professor who actually wants to teach, while the thundering herds…
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Argentina’s Canary in the Coalmine
"How can one compare the US to Argentina, which has suffered a century of political instability, and has been a…
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