The public-private-partnership NCInnovation (NCI), a private non-profit which aims to help commercialize public university research in North Carolina, announced the expansion of its senior leadership team Tuesday. Josh Howard will serve as General Counsel and Chief Ethics, Risk and Compliance Officer, while Erica Shrader joins the NCI as Vice President of Corporate Affairs. Howard, a...
Imagine Ted wants to start his own company to, say, build and sell televisions. Ted rents the land and factory, hires workers, and acquires the capital goods and other inputs as necessary. Months later, he starts putting his televisions up for sale. To make a profit, of course, Ted needs to sell the sets at...
If I were part of the ruling elite and wanted to keep people divided and misdirecting their anger at each other instead of me, I could think of nothing better than to convince people to focus obsessively on race. Looking at it through this lens, it may well be that the race-centered “woke” movement is...
North Carolina historians might lay claim to the state being first in freedom for its Colonial-era declarations of independence. But the most comprehensive instrument available to measure modern-day economic and personal freedom in the 50 states says it ranks only No. 19. Will Ruger and Jason Sorens, authors of Freedom in the 50 States: An...
Becki Gray recaps the legislative session; Rick Henderson reacts to legislative debate on fracking; Jon Sanders on economic impact of cronyism; Amelia Frahm on why nuclear literacy among kids is key; JLF's Sarah Curry recaps the new General Fund budget
Terry Stoops on ABC test scores; Lawrence Lessig on reforming way Congress is elected; Christopher Wolfe on the proper role of government; Gary Johnson & Tim Pawlenty on rallying support for Mitt Romney; Becki Gray on legislative session's veto overrides.
Jon Sanders on crony capitalism in N.C.; Beth Wood on conflict with ALE; Raleigh business owner reacts to "you didn't build that" comment; Bryan Riley on lack of support for free trade among N.C. congress members; Fergus Hodgson on N.C. unemployment debt.
RALEIGH — The Occupy Wall Street protesters and their imitators across the country have aimed much of their wrath at capitalism. But a recent book offers a different perspective. It’s titled The Morality of Capitalism: What Your Professors Won’t Tell You. Editor Tom Palmer is executive vice president for international programs at the Atlas Network and senior fellow at the Cato Institute. He discussed the book’s key themes with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
