The Luddites: Crying “Stop” in the Face of Progress

This is another installment in our series of profiles of leading economists from Capitalism and its Critics.  It’s our first profiling not a champion of capitalist progress but a stout opponent. Cassidy opens this, Chapter 3 of his work (“The Logic of the Luddites”)... read more +

The Rule of Law

I don’t know what role, if any, a deity might play in your life, but on my exceptionally short list of immanent beliefs worthy of worship is The Rule of Law: In a nutshell, “no one is above/all are equal before the law.” Its pedigree goes back in human history, way...

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