Originally from Forbes Several of the largest and most established think tanks advocating for free-market principles continue to lead across major social media platforms. The digital landscape, however, is dynamic, and a few newer organizations with credible voices, compelling messages and savvy media strategies are gaining influence, helping to advance the cause of a free society. The rankings in this piece are based on the latest publicly available data and reflect my own assessments as a Forbes contributor—they are not official Forbes rankings. As always, I invite readers to alert me to any pro-free-society organization they believe deserves recognition for…
Author: Alejandro Antonio Chafuen
This article, originally published in 2013 (Forbes), offers a timely and insightful exploration of Pope Francis’s early economic thought, particularly as expressed in his apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium. In light of the Pope’s recent passing, Alejandro Chafuen was kind enough to share this piece with us, as its reflections on justice, economic systems, and the Church’s evolving role in global economic discourse remain profoundly relevant today. The Original Article The recent economic statements by Pope Francis in his apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium (EG) read as a call for a “Third Way” economic system ruled by experts and people of good…
I will never forget the first time I saw Murray Rothbard. It was in September 1980 at the meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. I didn’t see him in the mornings, he only appeared during the afternoon sessions. I remember seeing him standing at the back of the auditorium on one side. Next to him was his great friend Leonard P. Liggio (1933-2014). I would never have imagined that several decades later I would be lucky enough to have Leonard as a professional colleague. During that meeting I spent time asking difficult questions, with implicit…
Hace diez años, comencé mi artículo sobre la economía diciendo: “Con el mercado de valores en un máximo histórico, con un desempleo del 5,8%, un crecimiento económico del último trimestre del 5%, una inflación de precios al consumidor relativamente moderada y la bonanza de la gasolina barata, hay un mayor optimismo sobre la economía de Estados Unidos”. También hay optimismo hoy. El mercado de valores está en máximos casi récord y casi se ha duplicado en relación con hace diez años. El desempleo, del 4,2%, es un cuarto menor. La inflación es casi el doble de lo que era en…