The Vital Importance of Property in Land: Part 1 – Arguments for Land as...
G. Stolyarov II October 14, 2012 Recommend this page. ****************************** In this small series on land and private property, I hope to counter the claims of Henry George and his...
View ArticleThe Vital Importance of Property in Land: Part 2 – An Analysis of the...
G. Stolyarov II October 16, 2012 Recommend this page. ****************************** In this second installment of my short series on land and property rights (see my first installment here), I begin...
View ArticleThe Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences: Turning the Tide for Life Extension...
G. Stolyarov II February 23, 2013 Recommend this page. ****************************** The tide of funding for life-extension research has turned. With the announcement of the Breakthrough Prize in...
View ArticleThe Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences: Turning the Tide for Life Extension...
The tide of funding for life-extension research has turned. With the announcement of the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences – sponsored by such renowned entrepreneurs as Yuri Milner, Sergei Brin, and...
View ArticleOpen Badges and Proficiency-Based Education: A Path to a New Age of...
G. Stolyarov II March 9, 2013 Recommend this page. ****************************** A major and tremendously promising opportunity has emerged to achieve a new Age of Enlightenment through technology...
View ArticleOklahoma: The Economic Storm – Article by David J. Hebert
David J. Hebert May 25, 2013 Recommend this page. ****************************** A tornado ravaged Oklahoma last week, destroying hundreds of homes, killing dozens, and injuring hundreds more....
View ArticleFree Your Talent and the Rest Will Follow – Article by Orly Lobel
Orly Lobel October 17, 2013 Recommend this page. ****************************** Imagine two great cities. Both are blessed with world-class universities, high-tech companies, and a concentration of...
View ArticleThat Cold-Hearted Discipline – Article by David J. Hebert
David J. Hebert November 6, 2013 Recommend this page. ****************************** But of all the duties of beneficence, those which gratitude recommends to us approach nearest to what is called a...
View ArticleThe Paradox of Public Assistance – Article by David J. Hebert
David J. Hebert January 26, 2014 Recommend this page. ****************************** Let’s put ideology aside for a moment. One might not think it’s morally or politically justifiable to take from one...
View ArticleFor the Love of Money? – Article by Gary M. Galles
Gary M. Galles April 13, 2014 Recommend this page. ****************************** It’s not unusual to hear market systems criticized for relying too much on money, as if this comes at the expense of...
View ArticleHenry Hazlitt’s “Time Will Run Back”: Unleashing Business to Improve the...
G. Stolyarov II December 13, 2014 ****************************** The free-market economist, journalist, and editor Henry Hazlitt wrote his novel The Great Idea in 1951; the book was re-released under...
View ArticleThe Businessman as Radical Revolutionary in Zoltan Istvan’s “The...
G. Stolyarov II December 15, 2014 ****************************** Zoltan Istvan’s 2013 science-fiction novel The Transhumanist Wager portrays how a combination of business enterprises, united to...
View ArticleContrasting the Roles of World-Transforming Business Enterprises in the...
G. Stolyarov II December 17, 2014 ****************************** Henry Hazlitt’s Time Will Run Back, Robert Heinlein’s Methuselah’s Children, and Zoltan Istvan’s The Transhumanist Wager each portray a...
View ArticleAmerica’s Aristocracy of Privilege and Power – Article by Daniel J. Bier
Daniel J. Bier March 26, 2015 ****************************** Bush, Kennedy, Romney, Clinton, and, yes, even Paul — is it just a coincidence that the same names keep appearing on the ballots each...
View ArticleOn Soda Taxes and Purported Health Benefits – Article by Peter Van Doren
Peter Van Doren October 27, 2015 ****************************** This week, the New York Times editorial board wrote in support of greater taxes on sweetened drinks, citing new research from a team...
View ArticleThe Myth of Primitive Communism – Article by Mike Reid
Mike Reid ****************************** Generosity Is an Investment in Human Capital All my students starved to death. Again. Here’s what they learned the hard way: generosity today can be a way of...
View ArticleImpacts of Indefinite Life Extension: Answers to Common Questions – Article...
G. Stolyarov II ****************************** As a proponent of attaining indefinite human longevity through the progress of medical science and technology, I am frequently asked to address key...
View ArticleImpacts of Indefinite Life Extension: Answers to Common Questions – Video by...
G. Stolyarov II ****************************** As a proponent of attaining indefinite human longevity through the progress of medical science and technology, Mr. Stolyarov is frequently asked to...
View ArticleProtectionism is All Around Us – Article by Daniel Gold
Daniel Gold ****************************** In political speak, a protectionist is someone who is against free trade. They want to protect American businesses, and indirectly American workers, from...
View ArticleDoes Star Trek Boldly Go Beyond Scarcity? – Article by Frederik Cyrus Roeder
Frederik Cyrus Roeder ****************************** As a long-time Trekkie (with several conventions and selfies with William Shatner) and an economist, I was more than delighted when a good friend...
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