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  Public universities suffer from a serious disease: what Milton and Rose Friedman called the tyranny of the status quo. Public universities are direct beneficiaries of central government subsidies that cover staff costs and operating expenses. Only a small portion of these subsidies are performance-based; the remaining part simply covers costs and losses. For instance, […]

  “Educate and inform the whole mass of the people … They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty”.  Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)   Take Away The Declaration of Independence is a document created not around personalities or political passions, on the contrary it commenced around the enduring liberal key principles: Limited […]

Štěpán Drábek is a young Czech economist and commentator. Since August 2024 he has been the head of the analytical team of ECONET, the association of winners of the Economics Olympiad. He is also an analyst at the Centre for Economic and Market Analysis (CETA) as well as at the Institute of Liberal Studies. In his […]