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Bryan Caplan On Open Borders

George Mason economist and recreational controversialist Bryan Caplan has teamed up with artist Zach Weinersmith of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal fame for one of the most ambitious crossovers in nerd history. The result of their partnership is a surprisingly readable visual case for open borders, in which a cartoon Caplan... Read more →

Minimum Wage Folly

Mr. Editor, I refer to recent talk of increasing the minimum wage. The idea of a mandated minimum wage is for the lowest paid members of society to, at least, ensure that they can keep up with the ever-increasing costs of living. It is not intended to lift a small... Read more →

How Welfare States Make Us Less Civilized

by Per Bylund Read original article at Mises.org by clicking here... Throughout history, the state has justified itself on the grounds that it is necessary to protect us from others whose habits and beliefs — we are meant to believe — are dangerous. For millennia, this fiction was easy to... Read more →

US and Swedish Taxes Are the Same in Reducing Inequality

It’s become a sort of conventional wisdom that the United States is a very bad country because of income inequality. Saturday, February 1, 2020 by Zilvinas Silenas Read the original article at FEE.org by clicking here... It’s become a sort of conventional wisdom that the United States is a very... Read more →

Domestic Branch Banking

Dear Sir, Writing as a retired banker with experience in both domestic branch banking in north London, England and international commercial banking in both the City of London and here in Nassau. I am forced to voice my concerns with the present atrocious state of branch banking, for the simple... Read more →

How many light bulbs does it take to change the world?

by Matt Ridley and Stephen Davies Institute of Economic Affairs > Publications > Policies > Energy and Environment Innovation is a very important source of economic growth. In pre-modern societies, institutions and practices worked against innovation. Innovation is the natural and inevitable result of trade and exchange. Technological innovation is... Read more →

5th Annual Joan Thompson Memorial Lecture with Per Bylund on The Seen, the Unseen, and the Unrealized: How Regulations Affect Our Everyday Lives

The Nassau Institute & Templeton Religion Trust In Collaboration with the Banking Economics & Finance Department & The Economics Society of The University of The Bahamas presents: Professor Per Bylund on The Seen, the Unseen, and the Unrealized: How Regulations Affect Our Everyday Lives On February 6, 2020 at 6:30pm... Read more →

Ludwig von Mises and the Real Meaning of Liberalism

by Richard Ebeling Read the original article at FEE by clicking here... 'Liberalism' has become one of the most widely misused words in the American political lexicon. iberalism has become one of the most widely misused and abused words in the American political lexicon. It represents, some say, politically “progressive... Read more →

Upcoming Lecture: Dr. John Rodgers – The End of Exchange Controls. January 22, 2020

The Nassau Institute and Templeton Religion Trust In Collaboration with the Banking Economics & Finance Department & The Economics Society of The University of The Bahamas presents: Dr. John Rodgers, on The End of Exchange Controls Wednesday, January 22, 2020, 6:30pm in the Harry C. Moore Library Conference Hall at... Read more →

The Rise and Fall of Nicolae Ceausescu, “the Romanian Fuehrer”

...we should remember that eternal vigilance truly is the price of liberty. by Doug Bandow Article orignally posted at FEE. Read it here... Traditionally, Christmas is a time of peaceful reflection and restful appreciation of the fast disappearing year. In 1989, there was much to contemplate. The most dramatic symbol... Read more →