Defining Ideas by topic: Economics

January 19, 2012
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The Bright Side of British Colonialism

by Gary D. Libecap (Sherm and Marge Telleen Research Fellow and Cochair, Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity Task Force)
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Image credit: Barbara Kelley
English institutions—the common law, property rights, and banking—led to economic growth in the colonies.
January 17, 2012
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Death by Wealth Tax

by Richard A. Epstein (Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow and member of the Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity Task Force)
Egalitarian impulses will sink our struggling economy.
January 10, 2012
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Elizabeth Warren’s Sloppy Progressivism

by Richard A. Epstein (Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow and member of the Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity Task Force)
The Senate candidate needs a crash course in wealth creation.
January 5, 2012
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Why Do Nations Fail?

by Daron Acemoglu (member of the Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity Task Force)
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As Arab dissidents know all too well, it has to do with how societies are politically organized.
January 3, 2012
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The Hidden Dangers of the "Living Wage"

by Richard A. Epstein (Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow and member of the Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity Task Force)
How government power chokes off private urban development.
December 14, 2011
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Auf Wiedersehen to European Unity

by Russell A. Berman (Senior Fellow and member of the Working Group on Islamism and the International Order)
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Image credit: The Prime Minister's Office
In the aftermath of the Brussels summit, the continent is more divided than ever.
December 12, 2011
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Populist-in-Chief

by Richard A. Epstein (Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow and member of the Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity Task Force)
Can Obama's progressive policies save the middle class from economic hardship?
December 8, 2011
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The Euro & The Tragedy of the Commons

by Gary D. Libecap (Sherm and Marge Telleen Research Fellow and Cochair, Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity Task Force)
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Image credit: Images_of_Money (via flickr)
Is it any wonder that the currency zone encouraged profligate debt?
December 1, 2011
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Keynes a la Mode

by David R. Henderson (Research Fellow)
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Image credit: International Monetary Fund
Was the economist truly a “capitalist revolutionary,” as a new book claims?
November 29, 2011
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Curing the Unemployment Blues

by Richard A. Epstein (Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow and member of the Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity Task Force)
Deregulation is our last, best hope.