Category: zero-sum

The Lingering Curse of ‘The Montaigne Dogma’

Commentary The influential and highly quotable 20th-century British economist John Maynard Keynes wrote, “Practical men who believe themselves quite exempt from any intellectual influence are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.” Keynes’s statement was prophetic in a personal sense, for the ghost of Keynes still haunts the economics profession today. If we substitute the…


A Global China Tax Is Needed to Defend Democracy and Freedom of the Seas

News Analysis Beijing is so powerful that we cannot expect any one country to accept the sole economic burden of defending the world from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Over the last few years, there has been a sea change in public understanding of the increasing threat from China. Nothing has demonstrated the China threat…