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Richard K. Vedder

Richard K. Vedder

Richard K. Vedder is a senior fellow at the Independent Institute, Oakland, California; distinguished professor of economics emeritus at Ohio University; and author of the book “Let Colleges Fail: The Power of Creative Destruction in Higher Education.”
by | Jul 15, 2024

Today’s college aged Americans are probably the first generation in American history that knows less about important consequential things than…

by | Jun 15, 2024

Why the outburst of campus protests in recent years, culminating in the sizable and sometimes violent demonstrations at such prestigious…

by | Jun 7, 2024

The legendary President of the University of Chicago during much of the first half of the last century, Robert Hutchins,…

by | May 13, 2024

Writing in this space five months ago, I argued that an anti-woke counterrevolution was starting on American campuses. While that…

by | Apr 21, 2024

As I reflect upon a long life, one disturbing trend increasingly stands out: Americans seem to work less than they…

by | Apr 10, 2024

The news from Moscow is that Russia is likely to abandon the 13 percent flat-rate income tax enacted in 2000,…

by | Apr 6, 2024

More than 225 years ago, prominent English scholar and political economist Thomas Malthus made one of history’s most spectacularly wrong…

by | Mar 19, 2024

These are not the greatest times for university faculty and nonacademic staff. Falling enrollments have squeezed budgets at many schools,…

by | Feb 14, 2024

The recent lamentable travails afflicting American academia — falling public support, suppression of free expression, declining integrity of research as…

by | Jan 22, 2024

As I recounted recently in the Wall Street Journal, 20 years ago Milton Friedman wrote me to say, after doing…

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