from FEE

The tax incentives for non-profits are working out pretty well for non-profit hospitals. But is it working out for everyone else?

The more significant and comprehensive a policy change is, the less we are able to predict the real impact it will have.

As Hoffer realized, only freedom can provide that opportunity. It does not guarantee a meaningful life; only the possibility.

Are you exhausted? Hungry? Frustrated? Before you dive into your workload, listen to your body and emotions, and discern what it is preventing you from achieving your goals.

Underneath the tribalistic bullheadedness and partisan signaling lies a common enemy: employer-sponsored health insurance.

We think of ourselves as Google’s, Instagram’s, and Twitter’s customers. This is incorrect. Advertisers are the customers. We are the product.

The promising CANZUK proposal would see Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom band together with voluntary agreements on multilateral free trade and movement.

In 2016, a paper published by 32 authors from 24 institutions in eight countries analyzed satellite data and concluded that there had been a roughly 14 percent increase in green vegetation over 30 years.

The unconstitutional practice of home equity theft has allowed individuals to be stripped of their property without fair compensation.

White officers are not more likely to fatally shoot minority civilians compared to black or Hispanic officers.

The empirical evidence to support a $15 minimum wage is sparse.

The hostile receptions Facebook's Libra coin received should be viewed as a validation of the need for Bitcoin.

Why Jordan Peterson's Thinkspot may become a refuge for dissenters.

Manners are important, and emails are no exception.

At some point in first-year or second-year microeconomics, students are taught that individual utility is subjective: What an individual finds beneficial or costly is entirely up to them.

Why is there so much doom and gloom about the future of our species?

Maybe Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffet have more wealth than all of the infants, children, students, handicapped, prisoners, and postgrads combined. But you don’t need a PhD to figure out that’s not useful knowledge.

Few are even aware of the existence of proxy advisers or the influence they wield.

Despite an amazing capacity to sort things out, create, and innovate, our brains can also be imperfect, biased, and flawed.

In 1776, the same year the Declaration of Independence appeared in America, Pelatiah Webster started publishing a series of essays on economic matters.

President Trump says he's not a fan of Bitcoin and suggested the only real currency is the US dollar.

According to data from the most recent IPCC assessment, “unchecked” climate change probably means that our great-grandkids will see a smaller increase in their standard of living than they otherwise would have.

Smaller companies are less able to absorb higher labor costs.

Americans are not at the mercy of businesses that don’t share their values.

Showing gratitude can serve as a light that can help lead us back to where we need to be when we get lost in darkness.

The idea that parents get in the way of children’s education and can halt their flourishing is nothing new. It's also false.

The minimum wage’s apparent popularity might be political pyrite (fool’s gold).

Iran’s apparent desire for military strife raises nagging questions.

Even if the minimum wage increased the total value of production, it would still be a strange belief to view it as a desirable public policy.

Some researchers—like me—question if summer loss even occurs.

How do people account for the discrepancy between projections and actual working hours? There are some popular explanations, all of which share one commonality: they blame the phenomenon on the shortcomings of individuals.

America is significantly outperforming Canada in surgery wait times even as it’s likely that tens of thousands of Canadians come here to get surgery.

Teaching kids that life is unfair is necessary, but so, too, is teaching them that their skin color or cultural background does not predestine their fate in this life.

The specter of massive technological unemployment haunts the world... or at least we keep hearing it does. Yet the specter never shows up.

In reality, there are a number of things employers can do in response to a minimum wage hike that don’t involve laying off employees.

Several decades of social science has shown a correlation between joblessness among disadvantaged youth and violent crime.

This is a good time for politicians to reflect on Smith's lessons in "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" and "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations."

Government transit has been a failure. Is it time to give entrepreneurs and markets a chance?

Earlier this year, women’s team members sued the US Soccer Federation for gender discrimination, citing the pay disparity between themselves and the US men’s team.

Google and Facebook are generating billions in revenue for attracting our attention.

Perhaps if the government demanded less (coercively), people would give more voluntarily.

If lawmakers want to tackle data privacy, they need to more widely address the value and cost of data in people’s lives.

What does bringing joy and meaning to work mean for the professional climbing in the ranks or the entrepreneur launching his startup?

In June, Berlin’s Senate approved the main components of a rent freeze in the German capital.

When the time comes, don’t be afraid to take the leap and go all in to embrace remote work.

We must never forget what Franklin Roosevelt did, and we must be vigilant that nothing like it ever happens again.

If amnesty is offered and you’re proven to be a tax evader, you most likely will be rejected.

Sommers discovered that vitamin A deficiency was the leading cause of preventable blindness in children.

It's true that Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Denmark have notable economic successes. It is false that they have been achieved through socialism.

Hawaii will continue to deny its citizens due process and make a profit in the process.