Commentary
The debate about whether we are in a recession—it dominated the news over the weekend—has become a war of words with high political significance but low real-world meaning for the average person.
We are experiencing ever more evidence of something much more serious and less fixable: a breakdown in the division of labor itself. Pictured: "Visiting a Nail Factory," painted by Léonard Defrance (1735–1805) Musée des beaux-arts de Liège
Jeffrey A. Tucker
Author
Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]
