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Samuel Gregg: Business vs. the Market
In a new essay for Public Discourse, Acton Research Director Samuel Gregg explains why we shouldn’t only focus on public sector unions as examples of organizations that seek government power and...
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Can the U.S. learn from Europe’s green mistakes?
Kenneth P. Green, of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), recently examined green energy in Europe in an essay titled, “The Myth of Green Energy Jobs: The European Experience.” Green thoroughly...
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Hardships of Ethanol
Everywhere we look we are facing rising prices. We find them at the gas pumps and now we see them at our supermarkets. Food prices are climbing, and just like gas prices, they are having broadly felt...
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Pope Addresses Rising Food Prices
Last week, Pope Benedict XVI addressed the annual conference of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, and expressed particular concern over rising food prices and the instability of the global food...
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Elise Amyx: Farming subsidies often do more harm than good
In today’s Detroit News, Acton communications intern Elise Amyx offers a piece on farm subsidies. She looks at how Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow described this government support as “risk management...
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Commentary: Corn Subsidies at Root of U.S.-Mexico Immigration Problems
Since the North American Free Trade Agreement began to be implemented in 1994, the United States has raised farm subsidies by 300 percent and Mexican corn growers complain that they have little hope of...
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Explainer: The Obamacare Subsidies Ruling (Halbig v. Burwell)
What just happened with Obamacare? In a two-to-one decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit dealt a serious blow to Obamacare by ruling the government may not provide...
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The Harmful Effects of Protectionism
Photo courtesy of Wikimedia. What is the biggest economic problem that the U.S. is currently facing? Depends who you ask. Some social justice warriors would tell you that capitalism is ruining our...
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What you should know about subsidies
Note: This is post #13 in a weekly video series on basic microeconomics. What is a subsidy? A subsidy is really just a negative or reverse tax, explains Alex Tabbarok. Instead of collecting money in...
View ArticleA real ‘fair trade’ solution: Fix U.S. agricultural policy
In our attempts to support struggling farmers across the developing world, Westerners have tended toward supporting a particular set of preferred “solutions,” whether purchasing “fair trade” products...
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