Big Ideas
These stories are conceptual--food for thought.
- Blood Money Charles C. Johnson 10/02/2009
- How a market for blood donations can help save lives.
- Our Uncrowded Planet Ronald Bailey 10/01/2009
- Imminent doom has been declared again. But don’t worry, neo-Malthusian predictions of overpopulation are wrong.
- The Practical Liberal Christopher DeMuth 09/22/2009
- Much has been made of Irving Kristol’s maestroship of an intellectual movement that enlarged and transformed American conservatism. Interestingly, his exertions had no comparable or even discernable influence on American liberalism.
- Economists Are Beginning to See the Light Tim Worstall 09/22/2009
- A small diversion into one of the tinier byways of the hugely complex international economy demonstrates the miracle of markets.
- Regulation and the Financial Crisis: Myths and Realities Arnold Kling 09/09/2009
- Many regulatory policies were major contributors to the crisis. To proceed without examining past policies, particularly in the areas of housing and bank capital regulation, would preclude learning the lessons of history.
- Drake’s World Max Schulz 08/27/2009
- On this day 150 years ago—August 27, 1859—Colonel Edwin Drake struck oil in Titusville, Pennsylvania, with the world’s first oil well. We should all say a toast of thanks to the man who helped raise the curtain on the modern world.
- Marx, Hubbard, and the Totalitarian Impulse Robert McHenry 08/20/2009
- An overweening philosopher and a scam artist. What brings them together in an intelligible category? Each man proposed, without embarrassment, a total explanation for human life.
- Reagan vs. Obama: A Test for the News Media Steven F. Hayward 08/14/2009
- Will the media’s penchant for accentuating the negative prevail over its pro-Obama sentiments?
- Capital Gains Tax: An Argument for Repeal Newt Gingrich and Emily Renwick 08/13/2009
- President Obama recognizes the powerful positive economic impact a capital gains tax cut would have for small business owners—so why not give it to every American family and business in order to encourage growth and success?
- Stimulating the Young James Heckman 08/07/2009
- Investing in the youngest among us yields rates of return that are comparable to the high return on stocks over the long run.