Economic Systems

by Roberto Salinas-León

The people of NYC have spoken... and they want socialism. Zohran Mamdani has taken the city by storm, and the self-proclaimed "hot girls" are falling in line...

Zohran Mamdani has moved forward in the New York City mayoral race as the Democratic nominee, after beating out former New York Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo

The UAE and the US are expected to see the biggest influxes of wealthy individuals in 2025, as thousands of millionaires flee the UK....

VIDEO DESCRIPTION Socialism is popular! Influencers rack up millions of views claiming socialism works better than capitalism. Are they right? AVAILABLE RES ...

Across college campuses, on TikTok feeds, and in everyday conversations, a familiar narrative is gaining steam: capitalism is broken.

In this graphic, we breakdown the billion dollar company landscape in 2025, covering 5,522 firms worldwide.

The Trump administration’s tariffs and the damage they could cause to people’s livelihoods globally are a rude reminder that free markets matter. But we live

Dorothy Day believed in radical generosity, but what if free markets do more to lift people out of poverty? Learn how capitalism quietly gets the job done

A professor at Lycoming College actually believes we should take a page from Karl Marx. Don’t wait for his fellow academics will call him out.

Given these realities of state power and economic intervention, the only reasonable position for those who cherish freedom and prosperity is the radical one: a pure market economy.

Our population is expected to grow to over 9 billion by 2050, yet the ability of our environment to provide space, food, and energy are limited. Explore population growth from 1 CE to 2050, see how our numbers impact the environment, and learn about the key advances and events allowing our numbers to grow.

The only route to more efficient government is radically shrinking its role.

Javier Milei has garnered significant global attention over the past year, and it’s not hard to see why. The iconoclastic president of Argentina has been

Editor’s note: Marianna Davidovich, head of external relations at FEE, recently published a booklet titled The Buried Stories of Communism & Socialism,

In recent months, Venezuela has been in the world’s spotlight, unfortunately for bad reasons. Despite international pressure, dictator Nicolás Maduro refused

Institutions are the rules of the game that shape human behavior. They include laws, codes of conduct, and both formal and informal customs that structure

Recession looms in the land of the long white cloud, but it’s not just young workers being lured across the sea

Perhaps the most amazing fact in all of economic history is the unprecedented rise in wealth per person that has taken place in the last two centuries,

Does capitalism make us more free or less? Does it leave us at the mercy of employers and big corporations, or does it respect our ability to make our own c ...

President Nicolás Maduro ordered a 10-day block on access to X in Venezuela, accusing Elon Musk of using the social network to promote hatred after the country’s disputed presidential election.

That amounts to some 10% of the nation's total population. The surge highlights flaws in both right and left-wing positions on Cuba.

People don’t always get what they deserve under capitalism. But there’s nothing wrong with that.

Is history marching inevitably towards centrally planned socialism, as Karl Marx proclaimed? Or is the best path to continued progress and expanding prosperi...

Explore how technical and social structures co-evolved over five centuries in this large-scale research visualization.

"What these stories all have in common is that these nations rose from poverty by embracing a common formula: more economic freedom and free trade... not international aid or central planning." ~Jon Miltimore

This doesn't make socialism look very attractive.

"A clip going viral on social media reveals that this marvelous invention could only be produced in a capitalist system." ~Jon Miltimore

Most Americans have been taught their whole lives that the USSR was hell on earth, but how are they to react when they’re given sources that say things like how CIA data shows that Soviet citizens lived better lives than Americans or that the Soviet Union abolished homelessness? These claims are obviously false, but skeptics of capitalism and America writ large find them enticing.