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February 20, 2024
The New Right’s Attack on Markets Is as Ignorant as the Old Left’s
…the Smithian tradition discovered core “anthropological truths”—foremost, that people are by nature free, rational, self-interested, creative, and fallible, but also “sympathetic,” associational, and ethical. Smith, of course, is most well-known…
December 4, 2023
A Pro-Market and Pro-Social Economy
…understanding of the fundamentally social nature of market economics, as Gregg explained in his recent appearance on our Hardly Working podcast, is heavily indebted to the Scottish Enlightenment and one of its chief protagonists, Adam Smith. According to Gregg, the Smithian tradition…
November 3, 2023
The Biden AI Executive Order: Dark Brandon or Uncle Joe?
President Biden’s executive order this week on artificial intelligence (AI) brings to mind his split media personality, which consists of the avuncular “Uncle Joe” and the more Machiavellian “Dark Brandon.” This bifurcated…
October 25, 2023
The Freedom to Choose
…a more heterodox and less exclusively economic way than we typically think of it. His argument makes compelling points, especially in the way it extends the Madisonian principle of how competing interests secure liberty…
September 29, 2023
How Well Is Rural America Doing? You’d Be Surprised
…likely to say they are “pretty happy” with their lives (55.9 percent to 53.7 percent). On measure after measure—including median income, unemployment, and home ownership—Currid-Halkett’s research suggests rural America may be doing a…
September 13, 2023
American Dreamers
…those most at risk of not achieving their full potential. Last March, VCW and AEI’s Academic Programs office convened the Appalachian Policy Summit, inviting students and professors for a weekend…
August 8, 2023
Bad Hoosiers
…and uncertain congregations. His generous “donations” encouraged the pastors to conflate Christian doctrine with Klan social views. From the pulpit, pastors encouraged congregants to join up. Ennui exacerbated this social…
July 27, 2023
Time to Do Something About the NILFs
…54 (1950-2021) Data sources: Mitra Toosi, “A century of change: the U.S. labor force, 1950–2050,” May 2002, Census.gov; and “Civilian labor force participation rate by age, sex, race, and ethnicity,” Table 3.3, Census.gov (accessed on July 26, 2023)….
June 7, 2023
How ‘Negativity Bias’ Skews the Conversation About Artificial Intelligence
…pain exacts a higher toll than pleasure can counteract, we naturally seek to avoid it. Technological progress, for all its long-term benefits, entails loss (pain). The transition from an agrarian…
April 6, 2023
Stop the AI Pause
…precipitate the exchange of nuclear weapons. It appears the “pause” we are most in need of is one on dystopian AI thinking. There’s no question that artificial intelligence in its various…