Iain Murray

Iain Murray is vice president for strategy and senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and also directs the Center for Economic Freedom. In addition, he is the author of the bestselling books The Really Inconvenient Truths and Stealing You Blind: How Government Fat Cats Are Getting Rich Off of You. Murray holds a master of business administration degree from the University of London and a master of arts degree from the University of Oxford.

Posts by Iain Murray

June 20, 2023

There Are No Alternatives to Free Market Capitalism

Alexander William Salter’s new book, The Political Economy of Distributism: Property, Liberty, and the Common Good, is an odd fish. It begs questions, contains numerous chapters that consist mostly of lengthy quotations, and at times seems to contradict itself, yet in the end it affirms an essential truth that we may forget from time to time, that private property is essential for political freedom. Continue Reading...