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Brains Versus Brawn: Ordinal Rank Effects in Job Training

Is it better to be a big fish in a small pond or a small fish in a big pond?

Scott Carrell, Alexander J. Chesney
Pursuit of Happiness
Jan 28, 2025
Dynamism and Stagnation: An Outlook

Flexibility and responsiveness are particularly important during periods of shock.

Ed Glaeser
Economic Dynamism
Jan 8, 2025
What is an Establishment of Religion? And What Does Disestablishment Require?

Vincent Phillip Muñoz reviews a new book about the Establishment Clause.

Vincent Phillip Muñoz
Constitutionalism
Dec 16, 2024
National Poll from Civitas Institute: Trump Victory Driven by Voters Who Reject Status Quo

The poll asked 1,200 Americans an array of questions about how things are going in America.

Daron Shaw
Politics
Dec 11, 2024
Recent Patterns of New Business Creation
Ryan Decker
Economic Dynamism
Dec 10, 2024
The Housing and Migration Crisis
Dan Shoag
Economic Dynamism
Dec 10, 2024
Reflections on Mass Flourishing: 10 Years Later
Edmund Phelps
Economic Dynamism
Dec 10, 2024
Sludge, Stagnation, and Dynamism
Cass Sunstein
Economic Dynamism
Dec 6, 2024
Tocqueville’s Defense of Aristocratic Literature
Antonio Sosa
Politics
Oct 3, 2024
Civic Thought: A Proposal for University-Level Civic Education
Benjamin Storey, Jenna Storey
Pursuit of Happiness
Dec 11, 2023
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Estimating the Productivity of Community Colleges in Paving the Road To Four-Year College Success

Pursuit of Happiness
May 1, 2016
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These Mayors Understand How to Run a City

Armed with common sense policies, three urban leaders are fighting a patient battle against chaos.

Joel Kotkin
Economic Dynamism
Jan 24, 2025
Causes Tending to Undermine a Democratic Republic

Commentary on de Tocqueville: Vol. One, Part Two, Chapter Nine

Richard Epstein
Constitutionalism
Jan 22, 2025
Why Europe and America Need Each Other

European elites have let their snobbery towards Trump blind them to their own interests.

Joel Kotkin
Politics
Jan 3, 2025
Saving Free Markets in America

American markets are under siege by interventionists on both the left and the right.

Samuel Gregg, Richard M. Reinsch II
Economic Dynamism
Jan 3, 2025
The Presidential Solution to Taming the Growing Federal Debt

Only presidential power can tame America's massive federal debt.

Andrew Johnston
Economic Dynamism
Dec 23, 2024
Postpone Your Pleasures

... and enjoy them all the more.

Arthur C. Brooks
Pursuit of Happiness
Dec 19, 2024
The Lone Star State Is Soaring

America's future will be made in Texas.

Joel Kotkin
Pursuit of Happiness
Dec 19, 2024

The Three Whiskey Happy Hour

Steven Hayward brings you the Power Line Blog's perspective on the week's big headlines.

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Dynamism & Its Enemies: 2024 Austin Symposium Recap

Economic Dynamism
Jan 27, 2025
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Arthur C. Brooks on the Pursuit of Happiness in an Unhappy World

Pursuit of Happiness
Jan 27, 2025
1:23:22

Nobel Laureate Edmund Phelps on What Makes Nations Prosper

Economic Dynamism
Jan 27, 2025
33:39

Jeff Rosen on What “The Pursuit of Happiness” Meant to America's Founders

Pursuit of Happiness
Jan 26, 2025
1:03:18

Samuel Gregg on the Humane Economy

Economic Dynamism
Jan 26, 2025
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