The authorsanalyze the best available economic data and conclude that American consumers--particularly the less affluent--have benefited tremendously from Wal-Mart's "everyday low prices."

As the 2008 elections begin to heat up, concerns ranging from health care to wages and employment dominate the domestic political discourse. In these discussions, Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, is often vilified as an evil corporate empire determined to place profits before its employees. Are such characterizations true or...

Press release/summary for the book The Wal-Mart Revoluion, by Richard Vedder and Wendell Cox.

In 2005, U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings appointed a panel of academics, higher education administrators, and business leaders to assess the state of higher education and recommend reforms. The commission released its final report in the fall of 2006, calling for greater accountability from colleges and universities, expressing concern...

Wal-Mart is not all its critics make it out to be.

How has the Wal-Mart Revolution changed everyday life?

Attempts to thwart Wal-Mart's efficiency-induced low prices and good service through labor, environmental, zoning or other type laws or regulations would lower the welfare of the American people.

Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings and others on what's wrong with higher education today--and how to fix it.