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Do You Know These 24 Underrated Economists?
AIER readers are familiar with many of the big names in free-market scholarship and a…
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Do You Know These 24 Underrated Economists?
AIER readers are familiar with many of the big names in free-market scholarship and advocacy, such as Ludwig von Mises , Friedrich Hayek , and Milto…
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The Battle for the Future of Space
New Space Capitalism: The Entrepreneurial Path to the Stars By Rainer Zitelmann Skyhorse Publishing, 2026. Pp. 304, $32.99 (hardcover). The …
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An Aging, Shrinking Population: Must a Smaller World Be Poorer?
In 2084 — the year my kids turn 63 and 65 — the United Nations forecasts that the world’s population will peak at 10.3 billion and then begin falli…
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The Hidden $13K Tax: Did the Government Make You Buy a Car?
Nearly four in ten Americans say car ownership is a luxury their families are struggling to afford. In much of the United States, owning a car has …
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The ‘Better and Worse’ of Stephanie Coontz’s Marriage History
Stephanie Coontz has spent several decades explaining that our ideal vision of marriage is a figment of our collective imagination. Her The Way We N…
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Beefsteak Socialists? Left and Right Are Competing to Control the Economy
French philosopher Jean-François Revel, sometime after Augusto Pinochet’s coup in Chile, reportedly remarked that when the dictator came to kill Ch…
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AIER Everyday Price Index Rises Again, Showing Household Budgets Under Pressure
The AIER Everyday Price Index (EPI) rose 0.33 percent in August 2026, reversing two consecutive monthly declines and registering its ninth-largest m…
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