Barry Brownstein

Economics

Economics of Gratitude: What New Yorkers Forgot About Prosperity

If I were to sum up the mindset of New Yorkers who elected Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York…

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Mao’s Children: How Revolutionary Zeal Is Still Warping Young Minds

Having read and written extensively (for example, here) about the suffering of the Chinese people under Mao, I was horrified…

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Adam Smith on Duty and ‘the Great Division’ of the Human Spirit

Ichiro Suzuki was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame this summer. With his nearly unmatched bat control, Ichiro had…

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New Yorkers Flirt with Socialist Grocery Store Scheme

Living in New York City is not easy. The Cato Institute ranks New York State as the least free state…

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Nazis Teach Us How to Defeat Them

The late Peter Drucker is considered the father of modern management theory. Born in Vienna, he was a young lecturer…

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The Steep Price of Declining Civility

Civilization is fragile. Countless social and commercial interactions build civilization. In one of his most essential essays, “Individualism: True and…

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Adam Smith vs. the Tariff State: A Timeless Case for Free Trade

If you maintain that over time, the United States has been the best country at exemplifying the teachings of Adam…

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David Hume’s Stark Warning: Reason Serves Passion

David Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature has been called “one of the keystone books of western philosophy,” “the founding…

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How the Government Makes Vaccines Less Safe

Robert Kennedy Jr. is the new Secretary of Health and Human Services. If you enjoy emotionally charged events, you might…

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The Liberation of Auschwitz: 70 Years Later

On January 27, 1945, Soviet forces liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp. The camp had largely been emptied on Himmler’s orders.…

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