Tag: James Peron

One of the greatest inventors in human history was Thomas Edison, often called the “Wizard of Menlo Park.” In fact, one of his innovations is used to illustrate individuals coming up with new ideas - the lightbulb. Similar bulbs were in use but unreliable and he came along and changed how things were done, making bulbs less pricey and more reliable.

The premise of Tax Freedom Day is relatively simple to understand. It takes the total amount of taxes paid and divides it by the number of individuals in that jurisdiction to calculate how many days it would take them to pay those taxes. The first day of the year when all the income would remain with its owner is Tax Freedom Day.

James Peron | President | Moorfield Storey Institute | Contributing Author | Free Market Foundation | mail me | There is a popular phrase people often use, “What goes around comes...

If you pay attention to what is happening, you can learn some basic principles of economics. This makes sense, when you realise that economics...

Life is an endless series of problems, all of them offering competing, imperfect solutions. But not all solutions are actually solutions; some are mistakes. I know of no system or individual that hasn’t made mistakes. The usual wisdom passed on in this matter is that one should learn from mistakes - that the intelligent learn from their errors and correct them.

One of my privileges in life was to come to know and be friends with Dr. Nathaniel Branden (1930-2014), considered by many to be the father of the self-esteem movement.

Paul Ehrlich has spent most of his adult life claiming the world is ending, birth rates are skyrocketing, populations are exploding, famine is around the corner and we’re running out of everything. He’s been largely wrong but refuses to admit it.

Because of its illiberal and authoritarian policies the choice of Qatar for the World Cup created a lot of controversy. A repressive dictatorship itself, Qatari police had their hands full going after people from countries who actually believed they had a right to freedom of speech. 

Capitalism has long been attacked with the argument that it leads to individualism, which is a social evil. It wasn’t a very clear or cogent argument but it was popular. I should note that conflating markets with 'capitalism' is erroneous.

On February 24th Vladimir Putin launched an unprovoked attack on Ukraine. Even as I write his troops are still bombing civilian targets and killing women, children and the elderly.