The lockdowns in response to the Covid-19 pandemic have taught many lessons. One is that politicians either don’t understand, or care, about maintaining the integrity of the wellspring of prosperity: private commerce, rooted in individual liberty and private property rights. A second is that an enshrined, protected and inviolable right—a human right—to private commercial dealing, on whatever scale or basis it may take, can no longer be overlooked.
If there is a palliative to be retrieved from the economic and social wreckage of tyrannical Covid-19 policies at home and/or abroad, it is this: the purposeful reversal of the political erosion of private property rights and the right of livelihood. And that turnabout should take the form of a long overdue, formal appanage: a primary and inalienable Human Right to Commerce.
About the Author
Peter C. Earle is an economist and writer who joined AIER in 2018 and prior to that spent over 20 years as a trader and analyst in global financial markets on Wall Street
His research focuses on financial markets, monetary policy, virtual and cryptocurrencies, and issues in economic measurement. He has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Grant's Interest Rate Observer Reuters, NPR, and in numerous other publications.
Pete holds an MA in Applied Economics from American University, an MBA (Finance), and a BS in Engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point.
This book includes contributions from
- Lyle D. Albaugh
- Donald J. Boudreaux
- Peter C. Earle
- Phillip W. Magness
- Edward P. Stringham
- Jeffrey Tucker
- James Bovard
- John Tamny
- Tania de Jong
- Evelyn O'Byrne
- Steve Kates
- Amelia Janeskie
- Brad DeVos
- Jenin Younes
- Daniel B. Klein
- Richard M. Ebeling
- Ethan Yang
- Stacey Rudin
- Jon Murphy
- Art Carden
- Antony Davies
- James R. Harrigan
About AIER
The American Institute for Economic Research in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, was founded in 1933 as the first independent voice for sound economics in the United States. Today it publishes ongoing research, hosts educational programs, publishes books, sponsors interns and scholars, and is home to the world-renowned Bastiat Society and the highly respected Sound Money Project. The American Institute for Economic Research is a 501c3 public charity.
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