The following is part of the In Defense of Freedom essay series by Northwood University students. The second amendment has commonly been described as the defender of all other amendments that allow us to live as a free society. Though over the past few decades we have seen more attempts than ever by our own...
The following is part of the In Defense of Freedom essay series by Northwood University students. It is no secret that the K-12 education industry in our country has flaws. More than ever, we have seen evidence of this amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Some schools, both public and private, are still struggling to establish standards...
The following is part of the In Defense of Freedom essay series by Northwood University students. Introduction – Defining the Scope To introduce a concept such as Critical Theory, a claim that will inevitably be regarded as extreme will have to be made: the Cold War that characterized the second half of the twentieth century...
The following is part of the In Defense of Freedom essay series by Northwood University students. Socialism fails. Every. Single. Time. There is not one example of true socialism that has been enacted successfully, instead, it is the opposite. Capitalism is proven to be the most successful form of government and when you take that...
The following is part of the In Defense of Freedom essay series by Northwood University students. “Government has no economic responsibility. Only people have responsibility, and the government is not a person” (Friedman, 2014). This idea seems to be slipping away in today’s day and age as it has been taken and twisted by the...
The following is part of the In Defense of Freedom essay series by Northwood University students. This piece is authored by Riley Hayer. For 150 years, Americans have been accustomed to the choice between a Democrat or a Republican. For many, the last few elections have been a vote for the lesser of two evils,...
SPN 30th Annual Meeting Atlanta Marriott Marquis September 19-22, 2022 State Solutions. National Impact. Now in its 30th year, State Policy Network’s Annual Meeting is the premier gathering of organizations and people dedicated to promoting state policy solutions that strengthen communities and improve the lives of Americans. Register Here
The following is the latest economic outlook from the McNair Center for the Advancement of Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship at Northwood University.It was co-authored by McNair student scholar, Brad Getchel. Introduction China has real estate problems at home with many experts arguing the problem could be in the trillions of dollars. Reuters recently reported China...
Leonard E. Read, the founding and long-serving first president of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), once told a story about when he first met the famous Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises. It was in 1940, shortly after Mises had arrived in the United States from war-torn Europe. Read had invited Mises to Los Angeles...
Regardless of the reason or rationale, the social effect of affirmative-action policies is to politicize social relationships. And the consequences of this have been everything from systems of privilege and corruption to mob violence and civil war. America was founded upon the idea that it is the individual who possesses rights. This was counter to...
Research from a team that included a pair of Northwood University professors about the drivers of individual analytics and its effect on decision quality and regret was presented during an international conference over the weekend. Kevin McCormack and Marcos Oliveira partnered with Peter Trkman (University of Ljubljana, School of Economics and Business) and Marcelo Bronzo...
The major causes of our current inflation-driven crisis are the roughly $6 trillion in largely excessive spending the Trump and Biden Administrations spent in the name of COVID relief and economic recovery; President Biden’s reregulation of the U.S. economy; and the dramatic expansion of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank’s balance sheet from $4.14 trillion (January...
We are poised to honor more than 75 million dads on Sunday as part of this year’s Father’s Day. But U.S. consumers will not be spending as much as we did when honoring our moms last month for Mother’s Day. Honoring Dad Father’s Day in the United States became a national holiday in 1972, though...
At a banquet dinner held in New York City on March 7, 1956, honoring the famous Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises, another equally renowned member of the Austrian school of economics, Friedrich A. Hayek, delivered a talk highlighting the important contributions of his long-time mentor and close friend, going back to when they first met...