Isaac Morehouse is the founder and CEO of Praxis. He is a member of the FEE Faculty Network. Learn more at IsaacMorehouse.com.
How I came to the unhappy conclusion that ideas were not property. Only later did I become happy about it.
What if you’re dealing with a co-worker who is always looking to sabotage you at a job you don’t want to quit? You can’t just hide from him in the storage closet. You can’t just smack him in the face with a keyboard, like James McAvoy did to Chris Pratt in the movie Wanted. Without the economic way of thinking, all you can do is simmer in resentment.
Unless we actively work to suppress it, our kids' urge to learn, experiment, innovate, create, and adapt will blossom.
The case against the college/career conveyor belt.
Who would you rather have attend a video game convention, those so passionate they’d work an extra job all summer to afford it, or those who happened to be on Twitter and didn’t mind taking a chance on a low-cost ticket?
Here are seven horizon-limiting mindsets that almost everybody has picked up from their schooling to some extent.
Grave as the stakes may sometimes be, you must first accept this outlook: it’s all a game.
Proposition F would have hobbled one of the Bay Area’s most innovative and beneficial companies. Why in the world did it almost pass?
Wealth – measured in opportunities and fulfilled desires – is greater and flatter than ever.
Political entrepreneurs find new ways to access resources first taken from others by force, and therefore do not create wealth.
As long as legal and cultural norms make the degree the primary signal of value in the marketplace, the classroom will continue to decline in quality.
When something is moved from the private, voluntary sphere to the public, coercive sphere, debates and division arise where none previously existed.
We need doomsayers: they help discover and highlight the greatest areas for optimists and entrepreneurs to seize upon as opportunity.
We can keep dynamic, low-cost young workers from outcompeting us in the marketplace, but only if we work together.
It's a mashup world. The modular thinking underlying this ever-changing reconfiguration of genres, media, and franchises could also shake up the top-down world of governance.
Don’t let the “fantasy” in fantasy football fool you: The game illustrates some crucial points about opportunity costs and comparative advantage. Isaac Morehouse has been keeping score.
For the past several months we've been subjected to numerous advertisements shaming us into completing the U.S. Census form. Some of the ads are annoying, but a few are downright absurd.
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