Trump’s Trade Policy: A Reductio Ad Absurdum – OpEd
Before and since becoming president, Donald Trump has consistently maintained that the U.S. trade deficit in general—and the trade deficit
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Author: Robert Higgs
Robert Higgs is Senior Fellow in Political Economy for The Independent Institute and Editor of the Institute’s quarterly journal The Independent Review. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Johns Hopkins University, and he has taught at the University of Washington, Lafayette College, Seattle University, and the University of Economics, Prague. He has been a visiting scholar at Oxford University and Stanford University, and a fellow for the Hoover Institution and the National Science Foundation.
Website: http://www.independent.org
Articles by Robert Higgs :
You Can Fight City Hall, But You’ll Almost Certainly Lose – OpEd
One of the chief reasons why almost every regime in the world has converged to a system of participatory fascism
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Community, True And False – OpEd
Leftists affect to love the community. When they make or support a political proposal, they are likely to say that
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Does Ideological Dystopia Await Us? – OpEd
Imagine a world in which the great majority has no respect for facts or for truth of any sort, where
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Tariffs Cause Americans To Accept Inferior Deals – OpEd
Suppose I decided to go back into the business of being a professor of economics specializing in economic history in
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Tariffs Remove Options And Necessarily Reduce Economic Well-Being – OpEd
There is a principle in economics that says, other things being equal, one cannot improve people’s economic well-being by adding
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All Hail The Entrepreneurs (And The Carnitas They Bring Us) – OpEd
Those of you who regularly visit my Facebook page or see my posts at The Beacon blog may recall that
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Nationalism, The Ideological Delusion At The Heart Of Protectionism – OpEd
Every economic entity, whether it be an individual, a family, or a firm, faces a constant choice with regard to
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The Historian And His Times – OpEd
Historians are often rightly accused of carrying contemporary ideas and values back into the past and using them inappropriately to
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Nationalism Is A Weird Ideology – OpEd
Nationalism is a weird ideology. It would be easy to imagine that it was cooked up by rulers looking for
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