Wisconsin’s automobile license plates proudly proclaim our state as America’s Dairyland. We are — ask people from all over the world about Wisconsin, and they’ll correctly tell you that we’re a powerhouse of dairy production. Rural Whitewater, Wisconsin has plenty of cows nearby (if not downtown, as some out-of-state readers sometimes ask). Some nearby dairy…
Free Markets
Development, Free Markets, Libertarians
Reason.tv: Encourage Bottom-Up Redevelopment – Reason Saves Cleveland With Drew Carey, Ep. 5
by JOHN ADAMS •
Here’s the next episode of Drew Carey’s series on ideas to save Cleveland, and by implication lots of other places, too. Cleveland has spent billions on big-ticket urban redevelopment efforts including heavily subsidized sports stadiums and convention centers that have utterly failed to revitalize the city’s economy. Should the city be pouring even more money…
Free Markets, Laws/Regulations, Libertarians
Reason.tv: Reason Saves Cleveland with Drew Carey (Take Care of Business), Episode 4
by JOHN ADAMS •
Here’s a discussion of how hard it can be to use one’s own money profitably to establish a business. In the video below, many business owners are even unwilling to discuss their frustrations on camera, from concern that spiteful bureaucrats will retaliate against them. Unfortunately, that’s a problem in many cities, including ones far smaller…
Free Markets, Government Spending, Laws/Regulations, Libertarians, Planning
Reason.tv – Reason Saves Cleveland with Drew Carey: Privatize It (Episode 3)
by JOHN ADAMS •
Here’s episode three of the Reason.tv series on saving Cleveland, and by implication lots of other cities, too. In this episode, viewers see how government doesn’t manage produce markets or golf courses very well. Should cities be in the business of running businesses ranging from convention centers to farmers markets? Selling off golf courses, contracting…
Free Markets
The Difference Between Being Pro-Market and Pro-Business
by JOHN ADAMS •
Over at the Washington Post, left-of-center columnist Ezra Klein has a sound point about the difference between favoring free markets and simply favoring incumbent businesses. (I think Klein’s right in this instance despite his favoring government solutions in place of markets more broadly in area after area of life.) See, Klein’s Post at the Washington…
Free Markets
Study: Markets Increase Fairness Between People
by JOHN ADAMS •
There are two posts over at Reason, about a study published in the journal Science. The study, entitled, “Markets, Religion, Community Size, and the Evolution of Fairness and Punishment,” finds that ” market institutions cause people to treat each other, especially, strangers more fairly.” Reason has two posts about the study, one from last week,…
Free Markets, Laws/Regulations, Libertarians, Planning, Poverty
Reason.tv: Reason Saves Cleveland with Drew Carey — The Decline of a Once-Great City
by JOHN ADAMS •
Reason.tv: Reason Saves Cleveland with Drew Carey — The Decline of a Once-Great City Here’s the first full episode of Drew Carey’s series on Cleveland, and ways to revitalize the city. Sixty years ago, Cleveland was a booming city full of promise, opportunity, and people. Today, the city’s population is less half of what it…
Free Markets, Government Spending, Laws/Regulations, Libertarians, Poverty
Reason.tv: Reason Saves Cleveland with Drew Carey — Introduction
by JOHN ADAMS •
Drew Carey has a series at Reason.tv about his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio. Cleveland’s a big place, but Carey’s proposals for revitalizing his town would apply to other places in the Midwest, including far smaller ones. Here’s an introduction to his series: Click …to watch Drew introduce the series that just might save his hometown.…
Free Markets
Reason.tv: UPS vs. FEDEX—Ultimate Whiteboard Remix
by JOHN ADAMS •
Here’s a Reason.tv post about how the government’s taking part in a conflict between UPS and FedEx. You may have heard the UPS is in quite the fight with FEDEX. Though both are package-delivery companies, they’re governed by totally different federal labor rules. As a result, UPS’s workforce is much more heavily unionized than FEDEX’s—and…
Economy, Free Markets, Libertarians
Reason.tv: Gov. Gary Johnson on His Economic Vision for “Our America”
by JOHN ADAMS •
From Reason.tv, here’s a half-hour presentation from former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson on free market economic solutions for America. Here’s a description from Reason: On Tuesday, February 9, in the midst of one of the biggest snowstorms in recent Washington, D.C. memory, former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson and Harvard economist (and Reason contributor)…
Free Markets
In cases like Toyota, free market works better than government: from San Jose Mercury News
by JOHN ADAMS •
Economy, Free Markets
Epoch Times — Capitalism: Passé or Neo-Classic?
by JOHN ADAMS •
Neo-Classic! From the story in the Epoch Times: The economy seems to be showing signs of recovery, but people’s faith in capitalism are being put to a test in face of tough challenges such as the current health care reform. Has capitalism stopped working for the U.S.? What is the cure for today’s troubled economy,…
City, Free Markets, Libertarians
“Quiet Libertarian Victories”
by JOHN ADAMS •
Jeremy Lott has a brief essay entitled, Quiet Libertarian Victories, about how the last year has proved libertarians right about their core principles, and some successes effecting change toward more liberty. Lott observes that The last several years have not been easy for libertarians to stomach. The U.S. government, which had bloated under President George…