“Capital is opposed to labor, and the rich get richer while the poor get poorer” is a phrase heard all too often. It’s often repeated by those who...
During last week’s panel on our newly launched book, For the Least of These: A Biblical Answer to Poverty, at the American Enterprise Institute, we discussed free enterprise...
Ismael Hernandez is the founder and executive director of the Freedom & Virtue Institute. He is an ex-Marxist Leninist from Puerto Rico. His father was a founding member...
America’s unofficial poverty program for most of the nation’s history could be called, in a word, “liberty.” In spite of a horrendous civil war, half a dozen economic...
We have all seen the various stereotypes of the Wall Street tycoon grinding the little guy under his thousand-dollar dress shoes on his way to the top. In...
As I mentioned in a previous post, income inequality per se is not a harbinger of poverty. But why? Economist David Henderson explains it this way: How does...
In his groundbreaking book, The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else, Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto says that private property rights...
Every good author writes with a target audience in mind, but it is rare to find a book aimed simultaneously at strictly rationalist adherents to Ayn Rand’s political...
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IFWE's Weekly Recap – 01.24.14
Here are this week’s highlights of the blog. What is the Right Way to Carry out Enterprise? Lord Brian Griffiths and Dato Dr. Kim Tan I claim that...