For this year’s conference of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, I am organizing and chairing a session on two giants of the twentieth century — Friedrich Hayek and Ayn Rand — with four scholars comparing their views on values and political economy. Topic: Hayek and Rand on Values Chair: Stephen Hicks, Ph.D., Rockford College, […]
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Dr. David R. Henderson is an associate professor of economics at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California and a research fellow with Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. Professor Henderson is the author of The Joy of Freedom: An Economist’s Odyssey and the editor of the widely used Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. He was previously a
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I attended a two-day conference at Wake Forest University on the Federal Reserve. The Fed is the U.S. central banking system and was founded in 1913 to replace the earlier National Banking System experiments that had been in place since the eighteenth century. I enjoyed a paper presented by George Selgin (University of Georgia) and
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One measure of a nation’s success is its economic health: how free are a nation’s citizens to pursue their own economic goals, and how wealthy on average are its citizens? Almost always the wealthy countries are those that enjoy a significant degree of the economic freedom. (See the chart in the image; click to enlarge.)
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Striking data on the sometimes low levels of customer tolerance, knowledge, and experimentalism: “A study by Elke den Ouden of the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands found that nearly half of the products returned by consumers for refunds are in perfect working order, but their new owners couldn’t figure out how to use
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I will be giving a series of three lectures this summer at the “Liberty and Current Issues” seminar sponsored jointly by the Cato Institute and the Institute for Humane Studies. The seminar runs the week of July 2–8 at the Catholic University in Washington, D.C. As the dates get nearer, I will post my lecture
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My four-page essay “Post-Postmodern Art” was translated into Serbo-Croatian by Alma Causevic. The essay was originally published in The Newberry Manifesto in 2001 and is also available in English in a re-print edition with images of the relevant works [pdf].
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