The Economist Who Forgot Economics
Daron Acemoglu won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2024 and is the third most cited economist of all time. Thus, the paradox of his new book, What Happened to…
Business
Sam’s Links: August Edition
Sam Enright works on innovation policy at Progress Ireland, an independent policy think tank in Dublin, and runs a publication called The Fitzwilliam. Most relevant to us, on his personal…
Atlas Shrugged and Interventionism
I. Atlas Shrugged in Brazil In 1988, when I was 27 years old, I read Ayn Rand for the first time. It was her novel Atlas Shrugged, in its just-released…
Sam’s Links: July Edition
Sam Enright works on innovation policy at Progress Ireland, an independent policy think tank in Dublin, and runs a publication called The Fitzwilliam. Most relevant to us, on his personal…
Trade and Employment
How much is international trade costing Americans jobs? It turns out, not much. A major objection by protectionists is that international trade with other countries, especially low-wage countries, will undermine…