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Exploring US presidential theory with Dr Andrew Moran

2021-04-12

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A five-minute masterclass from our Head of Politics and International Relations, Dr Andrew Moran. Andrew talks you through the modern presidential theories of American politics and chats about why it's such an exciting time to be studying politics.

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Biden’s New Budget Plan Means Trump-Era Mega Spending Will Continue

2021-04-12

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2021-04-12

US Federal Spending, In Millions of 2019 Dollars
The reality of federal spending under Donald Trump did much to put to rest the obviously wrong and long-disproved notion that Republicans are the political party of “fiscal responsibility.” With George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan, it was pretty much “full speed ahead” as far as federal spending was concerned. Under George W. Bush, some of the biggest budget-busting years were those during which the Republicans also controlled Congress.

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How Federal Funding Is Used to Control Colleges and Universities

2021-04-11

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2021-04-11

The Washington Post reports that a group of thirty-three current and former students at Christian colleges are suing the Department of Education in a class action lawsuit in an attempt to abolish any religious exemptions for schools that do not abide by the current sexual and gender zeitgeist sweeping the land.

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Per Bylund en Juntos por Chile

2021-04-11

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Licenciado en Administración de Empresas y Máster en Informática en la Escuela Internacional de Negocios de Jönköping, Ph.D en Economía Agrícola de la Universidad Missouri-Columbia.

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The Property-Based Social Order Is Being Destroyed by Central Banks

2021-04-10

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2021-04-10

Private property is an institution central to civilization and beneficial human interaction. When central banks distort this institution with easy money, the social effects can be disastrous. 

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Progressivism’s Failures: From Minimum Wages to the Welfare State

2021-04-09

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2021-04-09

The empirical evidence shows that neither minimum wages or welfare reduce poverty. In fact, minimum wages tend to increase the cost of living while poverty rates have gone nowhere since the Great Society was introduced.

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The Annapolis Convention: The Beginning of the Counterrevolution

2021-04-08

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2021-04-08

By 1787, the nationalist forces were in a far stronger position than during the Revolutionary War to make their dreams of central power come true. Now, in addition to the reactionary ideologues and financial oligarchs, public creditors, and disgruntled ex-army officers, other groups, some recruited by the depression of the mid-1780s, were ready to be mobilized into an ultra-conservative constituency.

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The Tyranny of the “Enlightened” Experts

2021-04-06

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2021-04-06

If you were to stroll through any typical upper-middle-income American neighborhood in 2021, the odds are very high that you’d observe at least one yard sign exuberantly proclaiming something like this: “In this house, we believe that science is real, love is love, no human is illegal … ” and other banal tautologies.

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Progressivism’s Failures: From Minimum Wages to the Welfare State

2021-04-04

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2021-04-04

As I write, the Democratic Congress is contemplating various measures designed to alleviate poverty levels in the United States. They include: the doubling of the minimum wage; the expansion of child credits. Let’s review both.

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The Economic Effects of Pandemics: An Austrian Analysis

2021-04-03

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2021-04-03

Traditionally, Austrian theorists have focused with particular interest on the recurrent cycles of boom and recession that affect our economies and on studying the relationship between these cycles and certain characteristic modifications to the structure of capital-goods stages.

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The Entrepreneur and Austrian Economics – Per Bylund Q&A

2021-04-03

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Q&A on all things Entrepreneurship and Austrian Economics with Ph.D., Applied Economics; Per Bylund, Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship & Records-Johnston Professor of Free Enterprise, School of Entrepreneurship, Oklahoma State University.

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Allen Mendenhall—Is Intellectualism Dead?

2021-04-02

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2021-04-02

Allen Mendenhall joins the show to expand last week's discussion on the intellectual state of America. Are we living in a decidedly anti-intellectual age, or has America always been predisposed toward doers over thinkers? Have Americans simply stopped reading books? Have we lost our ability to think deeply, due to the constant distractions of the digital age? And what does the shift away from any shared baseline cultural knowledge mean for our...

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Analysing the Trump presidency with Dr Andrew Moran

2021-04-01

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Head of Politics and International Relations, Dr Andrew Moran, talks us through the 45th President's time in The White House. How has Trump shaped American politics? Find out in this video.

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A brief intro to American politics with Dr Andrew Moran

2021-03-31

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Meet our Head of Politics and International Relations, Dr Andrew Moran! Andrew talks us through the American Constitution and gives a brief overview of the presidency throughout the years.

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Exploring US presidential theory with Dr Andrew Moran

2021-03-31

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A five-minute masterclass from our Head of Politics and International Relations, Dr Andrew Moran. Andrew talks you through the modern presidential theories of American politics and chats about why it's such an exciting time to be studying politics.

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Gun Laws and Decentralization: Lessons from “Constitutional Carry”

2021-03-29

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2021-03-29

Few political movements can boast of success like the firearms movement in the United States. Often overlooked is how before the 1980s there was no concept of licensed, let alone unlicensed, concealed carry in the overwhelming majority of the country. The sole exception was Vermont, which through an idiosyncratic state supreme court decision in 1903 has had unlicensed carry for over a century.

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Colonies Compared: Why British Colonies Were More Economically Successful

2021-03-29

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2021-03-29

Last month, British black studies professor Kehinde Andrews argued that the British Empire was “far worse than the Nazis.” It was a controversial comparison to be sure, but it raises the question: Compared to other expansionist regimes, how bad was the British Empire?

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Community and Civil Society over State

2021-03-21

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2021-03-21

Raghuram Rajan has written a surprising book. Now teaching finance at the University of Chicago, he is an international bureaucrat in good standing, and not a minor one at that; he was chief economist of the International Monetary Fund. Yet far from calling for an increase in “global governance,” as one might expect from someone with his background, he wants to strengthen the local, “proximate,” community.

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They Said Things Would Be Much Worse in States without Lockdowns. They Were Wrong.

2021-03-20

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2021-03-20

Like nearly all US states, Georgia imposed a stay-at-home order in March 2020 in response to demands from public health officials claiming a stay-at-home order would lessen total deaths from covid-19. But unlike most states, Georgia ended its stay-at-home order after only five weeks, and proceeded to lower other restrictions quickly.

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How a Small Rise in Bond Yields May Create a Financial Crisis

2021-03-19

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2021-03-19

How can a small rise in bond yields scare policymakers so much? Ned Davis Research estimates that a 2% yield in the US 10-year bond could lead the Nasdaq to fall 20%, and with it the entire stock market globally. A 2% yield can cause such disruption? How did we get to such a situation?

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