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Trump’s Subsidized IVF Spells Disaster
“Trump’s plan is a disaster from the perspective of cost, incentives, and value neutrality.” ~Vanessa Brown Calder
The Religious Idiocy of ‘Limitarianism’
“To pretend that you can have all the riches of the modern world and eliminate the ability for anyone to become wealthy is a sure sign of someone who has no understanding of how all this wealth was generated in the first place.” ~James Hartley
Harwood Economic Review: Dispelling Economic Myths
Our latest issue explores why economic misconceptions persist and the vigilance required to counter them.
Supermarket Merger Muddle
“Traditional supermarkets have been losing a great deal of market share to those excluded from that definition.” ~Gary Galles
Civil Discourse and Political Reality
“It is one thing to dislike someone’s policies and argue against them in a civil discourse, discussing the merits and consequences of their proposals. But there is no place to demonize and so diminish the character of a candidate.” ~Will Sellers
Misunderstanding Poverty: a Review of ‘Second Class’
“Frédéric Bastiat famously warned against economic sophisms, the facile myths around free trade and economic policy… Alas, Batya Ungar-Sargon is not even a bad economist.” ~Nikolai Wenzel
The Threats Posed by Environmental, Social, and Governance Policies
This AIER Paper seeks to educate citizens and investors about the substance of ESG and the kinds of problems it has created, providing the interested reader with a variety of sources to study ESG in greater depth.
Unbundling Zoning
Will zoning powers inevitably be abused, and would they be reconstituted in some other form if zoning were abolished? Evidence and theory both suggest that private land-use governance could be a non-exclusionary substitute for zoning, but transaction costs in setting up alternatives to zoning are significant.
Free Market Electricity: A Primer
Free-market electricity rests on time-honored theoretical and evidential foundations. Yet the classical-liberal alternative to heavy-handed regulation has been ignored for more than a century.
Understanding Public Debt
Whether at the federal, state, or local level of government, the rate of growth of government debt is unsustainable. Fortunately, solutions are available for all levels of government.
