The Eternal Struggle for Lower Transaction Costs: A Short History of the Modern Free Market Movement
In his lecture "The Eternal Struggle for Lower Transaction Costs: A Short History of the Modern Free Market Movement," Show-Me...
Development Spending by Government Only Multiplies Madness
Growing up in a small town in Southeast Missouri, life often felt painfully slow. Amusement was limited to the bowling...
Don’t Nationalize Education
A number of educators, academics, and political figures recently signed a statement released by the Albert Shanker Institute favoring a...
Why Was the Great Depression So Great?
On May 5, 2011, Show-Me Institute Research Assistant John Payne spoke about the causes of the Great Depression to a...
The Minimum Wage Hurts Those It Is Designed to Help
Two bills currently working their way through the Missouri General Assembly, House Bill 61 and Senate Bill 110, would tie...
The Economics of Pujols’ Contract
John Payne, a Show-Me Institute research assistant, discusses his recent commentary about Albert Pujols’ contract negotiations with the Cardinals. Payne...
Pujols Is Worth Every Penny (All 3 Billion of Them)
We are rapidly approaching the deadline imposed by Albert Pujols and the Cardinals’ front office to secure a new contract...
Is Albert Worth 30 Million?
It seems that all of Saint Louis and much of the baseball world are asking that question these days about...
I’m Just Disappointed That the AP Didn’t Play Up the “Dickensian Aspect” a Bit More
Watch out. According to the latest report from the Associated Press (AP), despite recent attempts by states to limit the...
