“Manufacturing Militarism offers a compelling mix of theory and history. Coyne and Hall show us how useful economics can be for understanding the war on terror and the propaganda that sustains it.” ~Nathan P. Goodman
https://www.aier.org/article/the-war-that-never-ends/

“Beijing should learn from Moscow’s stalled blitzkrieg in Ukraine that invasion of another’s homeland and decapitation of a sitting government may not be easy, despite overwhelming advantages in terms of advanced weaponry and numbers of military personnel.”
~ Dean Peng & Christopher Lingle
https://www.aier.org/article/why-not-one-china-and-one-taiwan/

“Against the longest of odds, billionaires rush a much better future into the present to all of our betterment. Fred Smith’s amazing accomplishments vivify this truth.”
~John Tamny
https://www.aier.org/article/as-fred-smith-steps-down-as-fedex-ceo-president-biden-steps-in-it/

“Soprano is no role model for classic liberals because he made a living by extracting economics rents by fraud and force. But he reminds Americans that they are individual human beings first, Americans second, and who really cares about the rest?”
~Robert E. Wright
https://www.aier.org/article/tony-sopranos-critique-of-identity-politics/

“There is nothing ‘simplistic’ about adopting the entrepreneurship-and-competition path as the way forward for the American economy. It not only requires a sophisticated understanding of problems, but also demands the courage to act.”
~Samuel Gregg
https://www.aier.org/article/economic-freedom-is-the-way-forward/

“Americans don’t want bureaucrats, as flawed in the head as anyone else, to try to protect them from themselves. Heal thyself, O regulators! Get back to us when you no longer suffer from debilitating cognitive biases yourselves.”
~Robert E. Wright
https://www.aier.org/article/nudge-off-paternalists/

“We despise dominance to our everlasting detriment. Commercial dominance in the present is the surest sign of future progress. This truth was plainly alluded to by Frontline’s producers, but not grasped.” ~John Tamny
https://www.aier.org/article/if-youre-focused-on-amazons-competition-youre-missing-the-future/

“Digital mobs will still be able to ruin people’s lives. But as long as Musk liberalizes Twitter’s speech policies, the free-speech reductionists will have to decide whether they want to stick around for the steady diet of real diversity.”
~Max Borders
https://www.aier.org/article/explaining-free-speech-to-the-twitterati-elon-musk-edition/

“High wages are a result of – and a reflection of – high productivity. And so contrary to widespread fears of many protectionists, high-productivity workers have nothing to fear from competition with low-productivity workers.”
~Donald J. Boudreaux
https://www.aier.org/article/high-wages-in-markets-are-a-result-of-and-a-reflection-of-high-worker-productivity/

“The proposal just gives more ammunition to the extreme left in the Democratic Party—Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and their allies.”
~Randall G. Holcombe
https://www.aier.org/article/bidens-billionaire-tax-proposal/

“Sensible deregulation worked for the airlines and their customers, is working for sex workers, and can work for America’s meat lovers too.”
~Robert E. Wright
https://www.aier.org/article/wild-meat-markets/

“Sensible deregulation worked for the airlines and their customers, is working for sex workers, and can work for America’s meat lovers too.”
~Robert E. Wright
https://www.aier.org/article/wild-meat-markets/?1

“Beware of treating human beings, in an economy or organization or your personal life, as problems to be solved. We are imperfect material; our errors are corrected in the course of a social process.”
~Barry Brownstein
https://www.aier.org/article/taming-the-dictator-within-part-1/?1

“The BMJ appears to only selectively exempt its contributors from its own financial standards, because it turns out that one of the authors of the attack on AIER has a far more direct connection to Big Tobacco than minor and indirect stock market investments.”
~Phillip W. Magness
https://www.aier.org/article/big-tobacco-small-minds/

“The conclusion is clear. The NCAA has its reasons for keeping its rules against paying college athletes. These should remain, for the good of fans and college athletes.”
~Alden Abbott
https://www.aier.org/article/the-case-against-paying-college-athletes/

“Government intervention like windfall profits taxes keeps market participants, both producers and consumers, from acting to moderate extreme price changes on either the supply or the demand sides. It’s a proven strategy for making a bad situation worse.”
~ Robert F. Mulligan
https://www.aier.org/article/windfall-profits-tax-redux/

“Economics is indeed universal: While it might not say everything about something, it says something about everything. Thanks to Hennessey, many more people will know it.”
~Alexander William Salter @alexwsalter
https://www.aier.org/article/the-everymans-economics-book-weve-been-waiting-for/

“I suggest we reshuffle Nozick’s thesis to transform his theoretical framework into a practical mindset. We can use the Framework as a strategic lens for spawning subversive innovations that promise each of us a society that comes closest to our ideals.”
~ Max Borders
https://www.aier.org/article/subversive-innovation-a-strategic-reading-of-nozicks-framework-for-utopia/

“Under the classical liberal ideal, governments are formed to protect individual rights. Nothing could be further from this in Shanghai. A city of over 25 million people is being dehumanized because of a spike in largely asymptomatic COVID-19 cases.”
~David Waugh
https://www.aier.org/article/zero-covid-horror-show-in-shanghai/

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