Working with undergraduate honor students is a great pleasure. FREE’s summer interns are from this set. They are normally headed on to graduate or professional school and not yet distracted by looming job prospects. Hence, they focus on ideas and ideals. I delight in sharing a few “life lessons” with them. Last year’s interns, Steph […]

Working with undergraduate honor students is a great pleasure. FREE’s summer interns are from this set. They are normally headed on to graduate or professional school and not yet distracted by looming job prospects. Hence, they focus on ideas and ideals. I delight in sharing a few “life lessons” with them. These students are self-selected, […]

Organizations are created to achieve some purpose. The motivation may be a good cause, for example a conservation or health improvement goal. Many others are in the commercial marketplace. However, few new organizations, whether created for cause or for cash, are successful in their mission and remain viable over the long run. Those that sell […]

FREE recently hosted a conference, “Personal Health Care Choices and Public Policy,” for Federal Judges, State Supreme Court Justices, and Law Professors. This is an area fraught with supply and access problems, competing values, and political opportunism. Economics offers some important insights when considering them. John Goodman, Ph.D., is one of FREE’s senior fellows. John […]

FREE recently hosted a conference, “Personal Health Care Choices and Public Policy,” for Federal Judges, State Supreme Court Justices, and Law Professors. This is an area fraught with supply and access problems, competing values, and political opportunism. Economics offers some important insights when considering them. What aspects of health care resemble a classic economic good? […]