by Jaana Woiceshyn In a recent National Post column, Andrew Coyne reported on a newly released statistic: Canada’s poverty rate …
Liberty versus Political Paternalism
Summary Crises like the current Coronavirus pandemic lead people even more than usually to focus on the immediate problem, and …
Reflections on the pandemic
We need a national survey of the incidence of coronavirus by testing a representative sample of population, not lockdowns by …
Independent Institute’s List of Books on the Folly of Socialism
What everyone should know about the practical and moral failures of the socialist project (Oakland, CA)—A list of about forty …
The Technocrats Will Not Save Us
Summary: Well, the macroeconomists are at it again: Which is more important for economy-wide stability and fighting recessions, monetary or …
Video: Per Bylund on How Regulations Affect Our Everyday Lives (The Seen, the Unseen, and the Unrealized)
The Nassau Institute & Templeton Religion Trust In Collaboration with the Banking Economics & Finance Department & The Economics Society …
McKayla Miller of Kingsway Academy wins Nassau Institute 2020 Essay Contest
First published in The Tribune… Kingsway Academy came out on top when McKayla Miller was declared the overall winner of …
Income equality is not a value—freedom and productivity are
by Jaana Woiceshyn I have resisted writing about the perceived problem of inequality in income and wealth—Thomas Piketty’s book, Capital …
Is capitalism dead? Why should you care?
Capitalism has been under attack ever since the Industrial Revolution, which, backed with the Enlightenment ideas of freedom and individual …