Can socialism solve modern economic challenges? PhD Alums Peter Boettke and Rosolino Candela, together with PhD Fellow Tegan Truitt, explore a century of debates, emphasizing the importance of market prices for rational economic calculation and highlighting the practical limits of socialism.#EconomicsWithAttitude
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How can controversy drive market success? Erwin Dekker and PhD Fellow André Quintas explore how Extreme Championship Wrestling used moral transgression to carve out a niche, innovating while balancing risks of legal and social backlash. #EconomicsWithAttitude
The Night the Line Was (Not) Crossed: The Use of Repugnance for Product Differentiation
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How do families adapt when systems fail? The #MarketsAndSociety Journal features PhD Alum Steven Horwitz's unpublished analysis of households as crises respond, stepping in to support communities when markets, governments, and civil society fall short. #EconomicsWithAttitude
Households as Crisis Shock Absorbers
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James M. Buchanan saw individualism as essential to economic analysis, arguing that social outcomes should be understood as the result of individual choices and preferences. #EconomicsWithAttitude . . ✍️ James M. Buchanan, "Appendix 1: Marginal Notes on Reading Political Philosophy," in The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1965), 315.
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How do military and health industrial complexes shape society? On the latest episode of the #HayekProgramPodcast, PhD Alums Chris Coyne and Nathan Goodman, Raymond March, and MA Alum Yuliya Yatsyshina explore Robert Higgs’s insights on militarization, healthcare economics, and war's economic impact. #EconomicsWithAttitude
Perspectives on Peace — The Industrial Complexes of Robert Higgs
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Current Carl Menger Fellow and Visiting Dissertation Alum, Brittany Giles-Jones, received this distinction from the International Association of Emergency Managers. Brittany has worked to expand emergency management knowledge and education to underrepresented groups. #EconomicsWithAttitude
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How can we improve policymaking in the administrative state? PhD Alum Jordan Lofthouse and Smith Alum Alexander Schaefer argue for decentralized, polycentric governance to harness expertise while promoting competition, diversity, and accountability. #EconomicsWithAttitude https://loom.ly/Yzu7fZg
Expert knowledge and the administrative state
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How can policies better reflect human behavior? Ryan Yonk, Robertas Bakula, Raymond March, and Smith Alum Veeshan Rayamajhee argue that incorporating human sentiments and moral context through humanomics improves public policy beyond utility-maximization models. #EconomicsWithAttitude
Max-U? Considering humanomics in public policy
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How can entrepreneurs make more sustainable decisions? Yuval Engel, Smith Alum Anusha Ramesh, and Nick Steiner and colleagues find that Loving-Kindness Meditation boosts compassion, inspiring environmentally conscious choices in business. #EconomicsWithAttitude
Powered by compassion: The effect of loving-kindness meditation on entrepreneurs' sustainable decision-making
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Israel Kirzner argues that capitalism thrives due to its unique capacity to harness entrepreneurial discovery. #EconomicsWithAttitude . . ✍️ Israel Kirzner, How Markets Work: Disequilibrium, Entrepreneurship and Discovery (London: Institute of Economic Affairs, 1997), 31.
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