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Upward Mobility Is a Better Measure of Justice Than Income Equality
A free society should be judged less by who becomes wealthy than by how easily people…
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Upward Mobility Is a Better Measure of Justice Than Income Equality
A free society should be judged less by who becomes wealthy than by how easily people can improve their circumstances under impartial rules. Who get…
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The Case for Talking to Strangers
A Little More Social , University of Chicago professor Nicholas Epley’s book that can help repair our frayed civic fabric, opens with a hat story. …
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Money Is Not Debt
Separating Monetary Reality from a Popular Myth 1. Introduction: The Appeal and Persistence of the Claim Some ideas become popular because…
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The Baseball Tax That Made the Great Depression Worse
The year is 1932. It has been almost three years since the stock market crashed. By the end of the year, the unemployment rate will hit almost 24 pe…
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Half of Students Now Get A's, But Actual Achievement Is Declining
As recently as 1995, a child’s straight-A report card meant something specific. Still relatively rare, the feat indicated a child had worked hard an…
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Reality Sends the Bill: How Ignoring Price Signals Ends in Disaster
In April 2021, the government of Sri Lanka banned the import of synthetic fertilizer and pesticides overnight, announcing that the island would bec…
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