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📚 Join SarahSkwire & Janet Bufton for Part 4 of a 6-part reading group celebrating Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations 250th anniversary! July 13 | 2–3:30 PM EDT
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GDP measures production — not exchange. Yet politicians and pundits treat it as the sum of spending, and "demand management" follows. Lincoln Anderson explains what GDP is, and what it most certainly is not. econlib.org/library/Enc/Gros…
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đź“– Join us for The Tempest with Sarah Skwire — Wed, June 17, 3–4:30pm EDT. Magic, politics, colonialism & Shakespeare's farewell to the stage. Pre-registration required. đźŽ
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What does a lifelong atheist do when his dead father appears above him in the emergency room? @sebastianjunger talks with @EconTalker about life, death, and sacred gifts. econtalk.org/facing-death-wi…
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The seen: fewer pesticides in farming. The unseen: higher food prices, falling real incomes, and a diet shift toward instant noodles. @BryanPCutsinger price theory puzzle makes the unseen visible. econlib.org/econlog/econlog-…
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Join Richard Gunderman for a 5-part exploration of George Eliot’s Middlemarch, one of the greatest English novels. Discover how it examines freedom, responsibility, sympathy, & moral growth. Thursdays, July 23–Aug. 20, 12–1 PM EDT. libertyfund.circle.so/c/even…
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If institutions were consciously constructed, they can be reconstructed. But what if no one built them in the first place? @maxcl_m on Hayek, social constructivism, and a distinction that matters enormously. econlib.org/econlog/social-c…
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The art of business is moving resources from low-value to high-value uses. Sol Price mastered it — and changed how America shops. @ArtCarden explores Price's overlooked genius and the economics of warehouse clubs. econlib.org/econlog/commerce…
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Finding community is difficult. Resisting its pressures to conform may be even harder.
@EconTalker talks with @LukeBurgis about belonging, commitment, family, and the search for identity.
Watch a new episode of EconTalk from the Hoover Institution, @Liberty_Fund, and @Econlib:
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Join Sarah Skwire on July 15, 12:30–2:00 pm EDT, for a discussion of Shakespeare’s Sonnets—love poems and beyond. Read widely, register early, and complete the full session. libertyfund.circle.so/c/even…
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In 1955, Vernon Smith ran a classroom experiment to see if free markets actually work. They did. He spent the rest of his career testing that result — and won the Nobel Prize doing it.
Read his biography at đź”— buff.ly/hUb1Tjv
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Join Sarah Skwire for a discussion of Shakespeare’s The Tempest on June 17, 3–4:30 pm EDT. Explore magic, politics, colonies, and overreach in one of Shakespeare’s final plays. Pre-registration required. libertyfund.circle.so/c/even…
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Happy Birthday to Adam Smith (1723–1790), whose insights on moral sentiments, free exchange, and human flourishing still shape conversations about liberty, markets, and society more than two centuries later. 🎉📚 #AdamSmith #OnThisDay oll.libertyfund.org/people/a…
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What do Tom Cruise's stunts have to do with economics? @aled_mj joins @EconTalker to discuss what his films reveal about embodied knowledge and human competence at đź”— buff.ly/8Wwqc5V
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Dave Donaldson spent 8 years on his PhD, manually digitizing 1.5 million data points from colonial archives to estimate how Indian railroads changed welfare under the Raj.
Sam Enright calls it one of the best economics papers of our time. More at đź”— buff.ly/66H6znN
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Join Anthony Gill for a 3-session VRG on religion & politics in the American founding era. Explore how theology shaped debates over liberty, conscience, independence & government. Tuesdays, June 9, 16 & 23 | 12–1 pm EDT. libertyfund.circle.so/c/even…
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What can Tom Cruise teach us about knowledge in the digital age? @aled_mj argues Mission: Impossible is really a tribute to embodied skill — the kind no algorithm can replicate.
Listen to the full episode, hosted by @EconTalker, at buff.ly/8Wwqc5V
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"The bank owns your house until the mortgage is paid off." @jmurphy8289 says that's wrong. Property is a bundle of rights — collateral pledges one of them. You keep the rest.
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You only get about 80,000 working hours. Should you spend them following your passion, making money, or trying to change the world? @ben_j_todd of @80000Hours joins @EconTalker to rethink what makes a career—and a life—worthwhile.
Watch the full episode of EconTalk from the @HooverInst, @Liberty_Fund, and @Econlib on X:
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Hasan Piker suggests he'd loot — no consequences, no problem. @aboutJoy disagrees: property norms run on shared moral intuition, not enforcement. Erode them, and disadvantaged communities pay the price.
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