What Is Behavioral Economics? Behavioral economics is, in a way, at the intersection of economics and psychology. In fact, the “behavioral” in behavioral economics can be thought of as the analog of the “behavioral” in behavioral psychology. On...
Libertarianism is identified as a political philosophy by its commitment to strong rights of private property, free markets, and strictly limited government. Though this is true to a certain extent of all libertarians, it is most clearly and consistently true of...
Exploring the Limits of the Technology S-Curve. Part I: Component Technologies Learning Objective: Understand the Four propositions about the usefulness of the S-curve. This reading is important for 2 reasons. It discusses a very important theoretical point, S-Curves...
Creating a Federal Minimum Wage is a Bad Idea for a number of reasons. There is nothing “necessarily” wrong with a community setting a minimum wage. But that minimum wage must be voluntary and limited to that single community. The Congressional Budget...
Is America destined to become like California? Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey created a stir recently when he tweeted out an article calling for an end to bipartisanship and the beginning of nationwide, one-party rule—similar to the Golden State. He called it a “great read.”...
Fractal Economics is giving economics its “Copernican Moment.” Before Copernicus, it was widely believed that everything – including the Sun – revolved around the Earth, rather than the Earth revolving around the Sun. Everyone used...
Conservatives often regard any community provided “safety net” as either morally illegitimate or economically destructive. This lesson will examine why opposition to any safety net is the default Conservative position, and why some Conservatives...
Understanding Libertarian Morality: The Psychological Dispositions of Self-Identified Libertarians https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0042366#authcontrib Abstract Libertarians are an increasingly prominent ideological group in U.S....
Senate Intel Panel Finds ‘Absolutely No Evidence’ of Collusion, Faced Roadblocks The Senate Intelligence Committee said in a long-awaited report released Tuesday that there is no evidence that the Trump campaign conspired with the Russian government to influence the...
Takeaways From the Senate Committee Report on Russian Interference Senators divided along party lines about whether to conclude that the Trump campaign coordinated with the Kremlin’s election sabotage operations. Democrats and Republicans could not agree on whether...
