Ed. note: this is the first in a series of posts by David Kotter, Ph.D, exploring the life and work of Ayn Rand. This series was adapted from...
Economist Thomas Sowell opens a chapter of his classic Basic Economics with an insightful quote from Will Rogers: You couldn’t live a day without depending on everyone. Will...
Today and tomorrow I will be at Birmingham Southern University, lecturing on the morality of free enterprise. As a Christian and economist, this is something I love to...
Through a mixture of hard work and thrift the Protestant societies of the North and West Atlantic achieved the most rapid economic growth in history. – Niall Ferguson...
Editor’s note: this post was co-authored by Dr. Jay Richards, IFWE’s visiting scholar, and Dr. Anne Bradley, IFWE’s Vice President of Theological Initiatives. As a Christian, whether you...
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize....
This past weekend we “celebrated” the one-year anniversary of the bankruptcy of Solyndra, the solar panel company. When I say celebrate, it is bittersweet. Solyndra should have never...
As we discussed last week, the exercise of private power is much different and more limited than public power. In spite of their riches, the wealthy are quite...
A common criticism of free markets and market-based economies is that they make the rich richer, at the expense of everyone else – especially the poorest among us....
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