Boycott Big Business
by Frank DeVitoThe key benefit of boycotting big business is supporting local neighborhood economies. Continue Reading »
The key benefit of boycotting big business is supporting local neighborhood economies. Continue Reading »
Ten years ago in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Nashville, Tennessee, HarperCollins shut down its last two remaining U.S. warehouses, after a series of such closings had left an untold number of workers unemployed. CEO Brian Murray offered these words of corporate right-think: “We have taken a . . . . Continue Reading »
For decades, public policy has fixated on economic growth. Have we gone too far? Continue Reading »
For religious conservatives, Alec MacGillis’s Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America is one of the most important books to appear in quite some time. That may sound like an odd claim. As his title suggests, MacGillis has written about Amazon’s dramatic reorganizing of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Like the tech platforms, Robinhood wasn’t really about its users. Continue Reading »
The most important economic policy difference between Trump and Biden concerns the COVID-19 “lockdowns.” Continue Reading »
We may be entering an era in which GDP falls by the wayside and no longer has pride of place in the eyes of politicians and technocrats. Continue Reading »
Economists make a point of speaking in conditionals, not categoricals. They never just say: “Do this!” They say: “Do this, if you want that. If these are your ends, this is what you must do to secure them. As for those ends themselves, they’re up to you.” This modesty is, paradoxically, . . . . Continue Reading »
In America, most right-leaning pundits espouse some form of “classical liberalism,” a theory that stresses free markets, individual rights, and the inviolability of private property. The more libertarian defenders of this theory stress its individualistic aspects, while the more traditional seek . . . . Continue Reading »
Shorthand is convenient, but sometimes it confuses. In the game of telephone, by which ideas evolve through repetition and iteration across generations, words can take on new meanings that diverge from the arguments they once advanced, and come to stand for ideas that lack support altogether. This . . . . Continue Reading »