Benjamin Powell

benjamin.powell@ttu.edu

Benjamin Powell is the Director of the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University and a Senior Fellow with the Independent Institute. 

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You Are An Anarchist. The Question Is: How Often?

MARCH 14, 2013 by BENJAMIN POWELL

When it comes to the State, the relevant debate isn't whether the State is always needful or always hurtful. It's whether statelessness is preferable to any realistic alternative in a given place and time. The answer might surprise you.

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Somalia: Failed State, Economic Success?

APRIL 01, 2009 by BENJAMIN POWELL

By most measures Somalia has improved living standards faster than the average sub-Saharan African country since the government of Siad Barre collapsed in the early 1990s.

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The Great Boom and Bust

NOVEMBER 14, 2012 by BENJAMIN POWELL

On June 21, 2011 Ben Powell, Associate Professor of Economics at Suffolk University, lectured at the Freedom University: Current Events Seminar. In this video Ben discusses the Housing Boom and Bust.

Directed by Brian Aitken and produced by Steven Patterson for FEE.tv: Freedom in HD.

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Immigration Myths

NOVEMBER 14, 2012 by BENJAMIN POWELL

"Immigrants steal our jobs!"
Watch Ben Powell debunk this and other immigration myths in this 3:34 video from FEEtv.

To learn more about why open immigration is good for economic growth, check out this article: http://www.thefreemanonline.org/features/tough-on-immigration-is-tough-on-eco...

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May 2013

From natural systems to human systems, we start to notice patterns in nature that are products of good flow. Adrian Bejan discusses this crucial insight--and how it makes freedom even more needful--in this month's interview. Zachary Caceres looks at what emergence can tell us about the universe, the market, the heart, and the sacred; Mike Reid recounts the tragedies produced when the State tries to impose its order on people who have already developed their own; Gary Galles channels Leonard Read: the State is a clenched fist, he says, so it cannot create; Brad Taylor says democracy might just be another imposed order in some situations; Karl Borden wonders whether an individual's right to be left alone can be part of the order of things; and much, much more.Download Free PDF

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