Jason Morgan

Articles

The Debt Ceiling Debate Was Pure Theater

07/12/2023 Mises Wire Jason Morgan

In recent months, Americans were treated to a particularly cheap political spectacle: negotiations over the debt ceiling. “Extreme right-wing Republicans have hijacked the debt ceiling process,” said...

Washington Has No Moral Authority to Ban Guns

05/05/2023 Mises Wire Jason Morgan

After the hate crime against Christians perpetrated by a transgender shooter in Nashville in March 2023, there was the usual outcry to ban firearms. Days after the killing spree, activists staged an...

Do We Need a “National Divorce”? It’s Not a New Idea

04/12/2023 Mises Wire Jason Morgan

News reports have been studded in recent weeks with talk of a “ national divorce.” Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has been the face of the national divorce movement, but she is hardly...

Publications

Creating Order without the State

11/10/2017 Jason Morgan

Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 19, no. 3 (Fall 2016): 297–301 [ Private Governance: Creating Order in Economic and Social Life by Edward P. Stringham] Leave people alone, and they will figure things out. This simple thesis, the heart of

Media

The Debt Ceiling Debate Was Pure Theater

08/10/2023 Jason Morgan

When it comes to the debt ceiling, political parties are irrelevant, and the recent debt ceiling drama, was little more than a sham.

Washington Has No Moral Authority to Ban Guns

05/22/2023 Jason Morgan

Another mass shooting, another call for gun control. However, when it comes to mass killings, Washington sets the sorry example.

Do We Need a “National Divorce”? It’s Not a New Idea

04/29/2023 Jason Morgan

We are hearing calls both from right and left for an amicable national divorce. In truth, the states were never "hitched" in the first place, at least not by any plausible definition of marriage.

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