posts tagged as economics

IER's senior economist Bob Murphy recently visited Connecticut College to present on the economics of climate change. His lecture addresses the disconnect...

In the old Soviet Union, the Communists allegedly used[i] the term “useful idiot” to describe Westerners whose naïve political views furthered the...

Sometimes you have to congratulate the progressive left on their ability to turn that frown upside down. When the laws of economics...

The Green New Deal (GND) has brought the specter of full-blown government central planning into full view. But far from hedging, the...

Both fans and foes of the so-called Green New Deal (GND) agree that it is a wildly ambitious set of proposals, which—by...

One of the most interesting aspects of the “Green New Deal” is that its progressive proponents hardly mention taxes at all—even as...