By April Liu and Virginia Fournari The individual is both the creator and user of her own data. Companies collect personal data, use it for various purposes like improving products and anticipating consumer behavior, and return those benefits to consumers. Big Tech’s multi-faceted uses of data generate new economic value, prompting questions on how consumers can be fairly … [Read more...] about Taxation in the Data Economy: The “Invisible” Competition
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For Now, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Still Holds a High Place in the USA
By Lipton Matthews Commentators worry that the United States might lose its dominance in innovation to Asian countries like China and Singapore. Many policymakers are intimidated by the R&D budgets of Asian countries and by their superior performance on international academic assessments. However, these concerns are misguided because the United States still dominates … [Read more...] about For Now, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Still Holds a High Place in the USA
How Comedy, Laughter, and Humor Can Improve Your Life
By Joshua Glawson Laughter has amazing social perks, health benefits, and can help enhance memory capacity. Over the past few years there has been a revival in comedy, with dad jokes, stand-up comedy, skit comedy, sketch comedy, and workplace humor. Although humor varies from culture to culture, creating laughter has a universal effect of making people feel happy, and … [Read more...] about How Comedy, Laughter, and Humor Can Improve Your Life
Authoritarianism Is Not Compatible with Economic Progress: Freedom Is Indivisible
By Patrick Barron Is it possible, or even desirable, for economic freedom and progress to be compatible with authoritarianism? Although some may believe so, this is a fallacy. Freedom is indivisible. Political and economic freedom cannot be separated. This is the position of Ludwig von Mises himself. In Planning for Freedom, he says, “Tyranny is the political corollary of … [Read more...] about Authoritarianism Is Not Compatible with Economic Progress: Freedom Is Indivisible
9 Crazy Examples of Government Waste in 2022
By Patrick Carroll With 2022 mostly behind us, many are undoubtedly grateful that this year is ending. From lingering COVID restrictions to the war in Ukraine to economic decline, it’s been a rough go. Amidst all this, the steady slew of spending coming out of Washington certainly hasn’t helped. While people were struggling to put food on the table and pay for much-needed … [Read more...] about 9 Crazy Examples of Government Waste in 2022
5 Surprising Facts About Microschooling
By Kerry McDonald One of the most popular and fastest-growing educational trends today is microschooling. Microschools are intentionally small, mixed-age, K-12 learning communities with personalized curriculum approaches that are sprouting rapidly across the U.S. They harken back to the one-room schoolhouses of yesteryear and were gaining traction even before the education … [Read more...] about 5 Surprising Facts About Microschooling
Food Truck Owners Sue North Carolina Town over Anti-competitive Regulations
By Patrick Carroll After 15 years in the Marine Corps, Tony Proctor decided it was time for a change and began working as a pastor in Jacksonville, North Carolina. Around the same time, he started cooking seafood for church functions, and the congregation loved it. It was so well-received, in fact, that Tony and his wife decided to buy a food truck and turn their … [Read more...] about Food Truck Owners Sue North Carolina Town over Anti-competitive Regulations
Leviathan Devours Free Range Entrepreneurs
By Kevin Van Elswyk “It is not Wisdom but authority that makes a law.” -- Thomas Hobbes That meal, guest or package that came to your front door this month is part of a massive delivery industry. Free Range Entrepreneurs (FREs), drivers whose transportation work is varied, temporary, and frequently changing, are critical to our economy and all consumers. It is a national … [Read more...] about Leviathan Devours Free Range Entrepreneurs
Cuba’s Bustling Black Markets Hold an Important Economic Lesson
By Carlos Martinez Black Markets have always been regarded as networks where buyers and sellers transact goods and services notorious for being morally wrong. Things like hard drugs, illegal prostitution, or guns that are not registered are among the many elements people cite when someone introduces the conversation of black markets to the table. Yet, few have talked … [Read more...] about Cuba’s Bustling Black Markets Hold an Important Economic Lesson
How Microschool Networks Are Activating Education Entrepreneurs
By Kerry McDonald When Katelyn Shore opened the first Wildflower Montessori microschool in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2014, she hoped it would be the start of something big. The vision, introduced by Sep Kamvar at the MIT Media Lab, was to create an open-source network of intentionally small, storefront, neighborhood Montessori microschools that would offer the tools and … [Read more...] about How Microschool Networks Are Activating Education Entrepreneurs
Phil Johnson: Entrepreneurs Demonstrate A Special Emotional Intelligence
By Hunter Hastings Business success goes beyond numbers and planning and finance acumen. There’s an emotional component to it, ranging from the courage to make decisions without knowing the outcomes in an uncertain future, to the resilience of weathering storms and coping with unanticipated crises. There is also, of course, the joy of achievement and goal-attainment. There’s … [Read more...] about Phil Johnson: Entrepreneurs Demonstrate A Special Emotional Intelligence
Why Former School Teachers Are Earning More Money As Education Entrepreneurs
By Kerry McDonald When Emily Williams told her parents back in early 2020 that she was leaving her job as a certified public school teacher to launch a microschool, they thought she was crazy. Both longtime public school educators themselves, they couldn’t understand why Williams, who taught in Mississippi public schools for more than a decade, would want to give up a good … [Read more...] about Why Former School Teachers Are Earning More Money As Education Entrepreneurs