This FREE Insight is a warm recommendation of a book by WWII veteran Warren R. Higgins, The Wednesday Pen.  His daughter, Ris Higgins, is a Bozeman friend.  She lovingly edited this volume and it was just published by Brown books of Dallas, Texas.  This is a most unusual book.  It’s a collection of letters, one […]

Introduced by Dr. John A. Baden, PhD Here is one great truth that has stuck with me since I was an undergraduate.  There is little disagreement among micro economists; their basic model is largely uncontested.  This field studies the behavior of individual households and firms in making decisions on the allocation of limited resources.  It examines markets and […]

The End of Unions? by Richard A. Epstein (Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow and member of the Property Rights, Freedom, and Prosperity Task Force) Defining Ideas: A Hoover Institution Journal What Michigan Governor Rick Snyder gets right and wrong about labor policy. The age of big government is now upon us. The question is how to […]

I’m writing this on Groundhogs Day, February 2.   Ramona and I are seven miles east of Ashton, Idaho near the Yellowstone Park border.  YNP is an excellent place to explore parables of environmental stewardship so FREE’s work naturally features Yellowstone.  Our July 15-19 conference, “Harmonizing Ecology, Prosperity, and Liberty”, will include a day in Yellowstone […]