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The Value Creation Gap: Why CEO Pay is So High

CEOs may not work 380 times harder than employees, but they do create a substantially greater amount of value. And…

Announcing TU’s Spring 2014 Campaign Event! A Debate entitled, “Is the Welfare State Just?”

Best-selling author and Fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute, Don Watkins, will debate UW-Madison political scientist, Howard Schweber, on the…

Of Zombies and Men: What the Apocalyptic Reveals about the Mainstream View of Wealth

Men are not zombies doomed to mindlessly consume their fellows. In a society where people are free to trade or…

Bailing Out Debtor States is Morally Bankrupt

When we move beyond the economic details, the Greek bailout boils down to a question of moral principle: should the…

New Atlas Shrugged Documentary: Ayn Rand and the Prophecy of Atlas Shrugged

Through a series of interviews with prominent entrepreneurs and experts on Rand’s philosophy, Objectivism, the new documentary Ayn Rand and…

Campus Media Response: Don’t Return to 1970s Economic Anemia

Lamenting BP’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Mark Costigan of the University of Oregon’s Daily Herald calls for…

Broken Windows, Broken Principles

In spending its way to economic recovery, the government boldly casts principles aside Many Americans have experienced the adverse consequences…

The Republican Party’s Identity Crisis

In the aftermath of the substantial Democratic victory in last November’s election, Republicans nationwide are reported to be doing a…

If Only All The Goldman Partners Thought This Way

Over at the Huffington Post, former Goldman Sachs partner Greg Zehner writes that Ayn Rand foresaw the economic crisis the…

Protesting Prices

  In July, rioters laid siege to several Pakistani stock exchanges to protest declining prices in the stock market. At…