“More importantly, if you care about improving the quality of life and living standards over time, the essential question is always about creating broad-based, sustainable economic growth. What are the conditions that are most likely to help the economy get …
Category: Income Inequality
Frédéric Bastiat on the Connection between Socialism, Communism, and Protectionism – Foundation for Economic Education
“…As for systems based on legalized plunder, Bastiat says: As long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true purpose—that it may violate property instead of protecting it—then everyone will want to participate in making …
Watch “Jordan Peterson | Using Money Productively” on YouTube
Welcome to another edition of Friday’s Philosophical Foray Beyond Healthcare brought to you by the Sovereign Patient blog. Professor Peterson discusses the implications of the genetic lottery, hard work, success, competence hierarchies, merit and fairness as determinants of social stability …
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Watch “Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, Eric Weinstein, and Dave Rubin LIVE!” on YouTube
One of the most fascinating discussions I’ve ever heard about socio-economic & socio-political issues. Proof that honest discussions, which generate better understanding, can happen when we view different opinions as coming from different vantage points rather than as “the opposition.”
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Marxism Ignores the Pareto Distribution | Jordan Peterson with Joe Rogan on YouTube
One of the mistaken ideas of Marxism (collectivism philosophy) is that wealth accumulation in the hands of a few is inherent, and specific, to Capitalism. This fails to recognize that in any endeavor -regardless of who plans it or who …
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Discrimination and Disparities with Thomas Sowell
“The disconnect between the intention and what emerges” A conversation with Dr. Thomas Sowell about the folly of political initiatives to solve disparate impact. With predictable irony, these same interventions often exacerbate the same problems the were commissioned to fix.
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The IMF’s Recipe for Equal Levels of Decline and Stagnation | International Liberty
…after reading a new study from the International Monetary Fund, I’m wondering if I’m underestimating the left’s fixation with inequality and the amount of economic damage they’re willing to inflict to achiever greater equality of outcomes. Here are some introductory passages to …
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