
4-minute read
Les vagues de chaleur, la croissance et le climat
Les vagues de chaleur sont meurtrières. Selon le GIEC, la fréquence, l’intensité et la durée de celles-ci augmentent avec le réchauffement climatique. Cependant, la mortalité qu’elles provoquent ne cesse de diminuer grâce à la croissance économique et au progrès technologique, un fait rarement évoqué lorsque le sujet est soulevé. Pourtant, ses implications sont très importantes.

3-minute read
Eternal Vigilance in the Age of COVID
This President’s Essay addresses the most contentious and pressing issue of our day: the COVID-19 pandemic and our response to it. Now that the pandemic seems to be subsiding, and government-imposed restrictions as well, it is a good time to look back and take a calm and measured look at some of the key issues that were raised by it.

5-minute read
Michael McCain is wrong about capitalism
Today’s corporate executives and owners seem willing to forsake history’s most successful social system for fear of the environmentalists, social justice warriors, and woke activists, greedy stakeholders all, now encircling them.

7-minute read
Le populisme est-il possible?
Le populisme est plausible si on le définit comme un régime politique où, chaque citoyen individuel se gouverne lui-même Cependant, il existe déjà avec le libéralisme classique.

6-minute read
Is populism even possible?
Although the topic may appear abstract or theoretical, it has momentous practical implications.

6-minute read
Is Populism Possible?
Populism seems to have gained some ground in recent years. Yet many economists and political scientists argue that there is no such thing as “the people” except as a collection of distinct individuals, with their own preferences and values. In this publication, author Pierre Lemieux shows that this reasoning has important practical implications for democracy.

1-minute read
Liberty Is a Prerequisite of The Good Life
If we want to sell people on our ideas, we must sell them on classical liberalism as a philosophical tradition that rests on some genuinely valuable ethical foundations, and not just on a narrow or caricatured vision of economic growth. Hence the impetus of this essay.

3-minute read
Milton Friedman still trumps Klaus Schwab
People shouldn’t be fooled by the visions of Klaus Schwab and others who dream of a better, greener, and more equal “stakeholder” capitalism.

5-minute read
We do have a collective action problem. It’s called the state
The state can potentially be a helpful servant, when controlled by proper institutions and traditions, but can also be a terrible master.
MEI – Freedom of expression: Censorship is expensive – Maria Lily Shaw
Interview with Maria Lily Shaw, Economist at the Montreal Economic Institute, about the collateral economic harm associated with limits to free speech. Broadcast on January 18, 2021, on CTV News at Noon – Montreal.