Paul Schwennesen
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The State of Liberty in America vs. Europe
Some ninety years ago, Rose Wilder Lane penned “Give Me Liberty,” extolling the remarkable freedoms Americans had, especially in contrast…
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‘Surveillance Pricing’ Is Just Pricing
National Public Radio recently aired a segment on the evils of “Surveillance Pricing” — the practice of employing customer data…
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Hurricanes and Other Evil Winds
"Extreme headlines fit a generally understood narrative and are far more likely to be absorbed by the public. This selective…
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Emergent Order in Inner Space
"In other words, the hand is invisible not because it is deftly hiding in the shadows, but because it isn’t…
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Is DEI Collapsing?
"The pervasive cloud of weird, semi-threatening tension which swirls around a modern faculty corridor does a disservice to a long…
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Badgers and Environmental Laws
"As ever more stringent measures are taken to 'curb climate change,' for instance, ever more anger will erupt over their…
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Supply and Demand: As Straightforward as it Seems?
"It’s the entrepreneur’s dilemma—a kind of chicken-and-egg quandary that complicates the basic law of supply and demand. Consumers are in…
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Without Economic Freedom, None of the Others Matter
"Forbidding entrepreneurial ventures that have not been granted prior approval and design review by unelected officials is, practically speaking, state…
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The Myth of Rural “Assistance”
"Just as in the New Deal electrification boondoggle, it is a much better value, from a bureaucratic perspective, to waste…
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A Day in the Life of Homo Economicus
"While the concept of people as 'optimizers' is sometimes criticized as too reductive, too reliant on assumptions of 'perfect information,'…
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