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February 27, 2024  •  Weekly Newsletter
Why Shareholder Firms Tend to Persist Over Worker-Owned Models

Caleb S. Fuller

Workers could control the means of production today if they wanted, so why don’t workers convert capitalist firms into labor-owned firms? The underrated scholarship of Henry Hansmann provides the answer. READ MORE »

The Stakeholder Concept of Corporate Control Is Illogical and Impractical

The Independent Review, Spring 2002

The New American Antisemitism

Cal Thomas

In the aftermath of “from the river to the sea” anti-Israel protests on many college campuses and in the streets comes a perfectly timed book by Benjamin Ginsberg titled The New American Anti-Semitism: The Left, The Right, and the Jews. Ginsberg’s book should be required reading for how Jewish-hatred continues to poison the politics and culture of many countries, including our own. READ MORE »

The New American Anti-Semitism

The Left, the Right, and the Jews

By Benjamin Ginsberg

The Biden Administration versus Medicare Advantage

John C. Goodman (Forbes)

Healthcare is Exhibit A of a dysfunctional market—a missed call can cost $190 million. So, what has been the Biden administration’s response? Nothing good. READ MORE »

A Better Choice

Healthcare Solutions for America

By John C. Goodman

Why I am Not a Neoliberal

Phillip Magness (SSRN)

Critics of free markets have latched onto a favorite swear word, “neoliberal.” But a closer look at the history of this term reveals roots in Marxist and National Socialist ideologies. READ MORE »

Fascism: Left, Right, or Neither?

The Independent Review, Summer 2022

2023 Annual Report

A year in review look at the Independent Institute’s activities for 2023. READ MORE »

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