Image Source This week, the lecture we were tasked with listening to or watching is Burt Folsom’s speech on the Myth of the Robber Barons. Many interesting developments and breakthroughs within business

Image Source I write this in response to the question given to us this week, “One could argue that political entrepreneurship represents a distinct path toward corruption and should thus be illegal. However,

Image Source Within this week’s assigned lecture “Big Tech is Watching You!” many topics and issues were discussed regarding big tech companies, their current and growing technologies, and how we as users

Image Source To answer the question ["Do you think it is possible to completely escape Big Tech surveillance?"] (@atamme/week-13-questions-the-dangers) asked by @atamme, I believe that it is

Image Source When it comes to the discussion of property rights, the rule of law, and how they are important when it comes to the eradication of extreme poverty across the globe, many different examples

Image Source When listening to Dr. Sean Masaki Flynn’s presentation “The Cure That Works,” one of the points he made that most stuck out to me was his example of American citizens’ ability to compare prices

Image Source Since its creation, the internet has brought many new and often extraordinary experiences, tools, forms of communication, and informational resources into the world. For billions of people

Image Source When considering the importance of Google within today’s society, it is often very difficult to think of internet usage without assistance of any kind from Google or their powerful and effective

Image Source When considering the implications of NFTs upon the music and art industry, many new ideas come to mind. As the speakers stated, many new music and art outlets have been introduced and greatly

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Image Source When thinking about Universal Basic Income, or UBI, my opinion on the matter is very conflicted. While I do strongly believe that all human beings should be able to live without fear of starvation

Image Source Within Dr. Bylund’s “The Seen, the Unseen, and the Unrealized” many points were made that allowed me to gain a much greater understanding of the content covered within the last couple weeks

Image Source A completely hypothetical method of some innovation that could possibly be an example of an unseen effect of government regulation and inhibition of progress is the introduction of flying

Image Source One of the statements made by Dr. Per Bylund that truly stuck with me and caused me to think of economic structures in a new light is, “any innovation is inefficient.” When speaking of economic

Image Source By instituting a more federalist method of government, the centralized regulations and legislative acts that come from a more central government lose their power over regulatory actions to

Image Source This week’s assigned reading was one I found to be very interesting. While “The Road To Serfdom” by Friedrich A. Hayek covered many different topics related to several various issues, one

Image Source Centrally-planned economies can very much limit the abilities of the functioning economy to be able to fulfill its necessary role within the system in play. One of the largest pressing issues

Image Source Based on the presentation given to us this week about the book Socialism Sucks: Two Economists Drink Their Way Through the Unfree World, I believe that the shortcomings of socialism caused

Image Source Economic value relating to means of production can be vastly different depending on the source of its creation. Within socialism, the means of production are controlled by the state and its

Image Source In the world of today’s internet, everyone seems to have something to share with the billions of others searching its vast database of knowledge. For some, it may be a simple remark about