Living Standards

Thanks to Economic Freedom, America Still Outperforms Other Nations in Standard of Living

Our Living Standards Are Not a “Given.” They Are a Gift We Owe to Commerce and Production.

My Elder’s Misguided Prayer on “Starvation Wages”

We’ll All Be Economic Casualties in the War on Wealth

If You’re Warm Right Now, Thank Capitalism

The Robots are Coming. Don’t Panic

What Is Economic Growth? (And What Is It Not?)

What the Overpopulation Pessimists Got Wrong (and Still Get Wrong Today)

Protectionists Should Tread Lightly on the Dreams of the Chinese Poor

How Botswana Became One of Africa’s Wealthiest Nations

Human Progress Is Impossible Without Income Inequality

America’s Record Middle-Class Earnings Exposes the ‘Imaginary Hobgoblin’ of Income Inequality

Being Rich Isn’t What It Used to Be

Ignore the Naysayers, Life Is Amazing

As Long As People Are Free, There Will Be Inequality

Humanity’s Remarkable Economic Progress Revealed in One Chart

How 3 Oklahoma Entrepreneurs You’ve Never Heard of Changed the World

The US Needs a Freedom Revival

Free Trade Makes People Nicer

Hand-Wringing Over the Demise of the Laundromat