Center on Wealth & Poverty

The Mission of Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth & Poverty is to apply the perennial truths of economics and ethics to the urgent challenges of today. We are building a sustained argument against the progressive ideological regime that increasingly dominates America’s institutions and rebuilding the foundation of the nation’s first principles: freedom, equality, charity, and the pursuit of happiness for all. Read more.

News

Elon Musk Gets an A in Econ. Janet Yellen Gets a D-

_{63 million more Americans would increase GDP per capita by $20,000 and GDP by $12 trillion.}_{Gale Pooley
May 13, 2022}

Elon Musk and Julian Simon are right. Janet Yellen and Thanos are wrong. More human beings create much more wealth for all of us to enjoy, if given the freedom to innovate by learning and discovering new valuable knowledge to share in free markets. Invest in people. We pay the highest dividends.

Even With Historic High Gasoline Prices, You Get 62 Percent More Miles for the Same Time it Took in 1980.: Gale Pooley; May 10, 2022

Mounting U.S. Debt and Misguided Foreign Policy Risk a Dollar Doomsday: Scott S. Powell; April 28, 2022

Visualizing Global Resource Abundance: Gale Pooley; April 26, 2022

Generous Donation Gone to Waste on Bad Homelessness Policy: Caitlin Bassett; March 28, 2022

Most Cities’ Responses To Homelessness Actually Enable Even More Homelessness: Robert Marbut; March 18, 2022

Video

Govzilla: How the Relentless Growth of Government Is Devouring Our Economy And Our Freedom

The Bill Walton Show: How Financial Regulations are Reshaping America with Todd Zywicki and Brian Johnson: Bill Walton; July 13, 2021

The Price of Panic: Jay W. Richards; December 8, 2020

George Gilder, Wealth & Poverty 40 Years Later: George Gilder; October 2, 2020

The Story of Money: Edmund C. Moy; September 21, 2020