Walling Off Liberty: How Strict Immigration Enforcement Threatens Privacy and...
Matthew FeeneyDuring his campaign, Donald Trump vowed to aggressively ramp up immigration enforcement by implementing “extreme vetting,” building a wall along the southern border, cracking down on...
View ArticleThe “Protectionist Moment” That Wasn’t: American Views on Trade and...
Scott LincicomeThe United States’ recent implementation of protectionist tariff and trade policies has not been driven by intense public demands for such policies. In fact, recent public opinion...
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Charting Public Transit’s Decline
Randal O'TooleNationwide transit ridership has declined steadily since 2014, with some of the largest urban areas, including Atlanta, Miami, and Los Angeles, losing more than 20 percent of their...
View ArticleFixing the Bias in Current State K–12 Education Rankings
Stan Liebowitz and Matthew L. KellyState education rankings published by U.S. News & World Report, Education Week, and others play a prominent role in legislative debate and public discourse...
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Should Governments Restrict Cash?
Jeffrey Rogers HummelCentral bankers and mainstream monetary economists have become intrigued with the idea of reducing, or even entirely eliminating, hand-to-hand currency. Advocates of these...
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Disciplining China's Trade Practices at the WTO: How WTO Complaints Can Help...
James Bacchus, Simon Lester, and Huan ZhuThe Trump administration has argued that the World Trade Organization (WTO) has failed to address China’s “unfair” trade practices. While it is true that...
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The Simon Abundance Index: A New Way to Measure Availability of Resources
Gale L. Pooley and Marian L. TupyAre we running out of resources? That’s been a hotly debated question since the publication of Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb in 1968. The Stanford University...
View ArticleStock Market Short-Termism
Derek BonettMany economists have argued that equity markets are characterized by myopia. Investors want immediate returns, and the managers of publicly traded funds are induced to sacrifice long-term...
View ArticleHarm Reduction: Shifting from a War on Drugs to a War on Drug-Related Deaths
Jeffrey A. SingerThe U.S. government’s current strategy of trying to restrict the supply of opioids for nonmedical uses is not working. While government efforts to reduce the supply of opioids for...
View ArticleCommon Ownership, Some Thoughts: An Informal Memo in Reply to Einer Elhauge
Derek BonettThis extremely rough and informal draft memo is intended as a reply to Professor Einer Elhauge, who wrote a wonderfully argued and supremely comprehensive piece on the evolving debate over...
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How Markets Empower Women: Innovation and Market Participation Transform...
Chelsea FollettOver the last 200 years, economic progress has helped to bring about both dramatically better standards of living and the extension of individual dignity to women in the developed world....
View ArticleHow Legalizing Marijuana Is Securing the Border: The Border Wall, Drug...
David BierPresident Trump has repeatedly cited drug smuggling to justify a border wall. Because it is difficult to conceal, marijuana is the main drug transported between ports of entry where a border...
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The Case for an Immigration Tariff: How to Create a Price-Based Visa Category
Alex NowrastehThe current U.S. immigration system favors non-economic immigrants. About 81 percent of new immigrants are family members of American citizens or green card holders, whereas only 5...
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The Myth of the Cyber Offense: The Case for Restraint
Brandon Valeriano and Benjamin JensenGreat-power competition in the 21st century increasingly involves the use of cyber operations between rival states. But do cyber operations achieve their stated...
View ArticleDo Immigrants Import Terrorism?
Andrew Forrester, Benjamin Powell, Alex Nowrasteh, & Michelangelo LandgraveThe relationship between immigration and terrorism is an important public policy concern. Using bilateral migration data...
View ArticleHow 'Market Failure' Arguments Lead to Misguided Policy
Ryan Bourne“Market failure” is a common justification for new government policies. Proponents of interventions love to point to instances of apparently imperfect markets and assume that government...
View ArticleOverdosing on Regulation: How Government Caused the Opioid Epidemic
Jeffrey Miron, Greg Sollenberger, and Laura NicolaeOpioid overdose deaths have risen dramatically in the United States over the past two decades. The standard explanation blames expanded prescribing...
View ArticleWhy the Government Should Not Regulate Content Moderation of Social Media
John SamplesPresident Trump recently complained that Google searches are biased against Republicans and conservatives. Many conservatives argue that Facebook and Google are monopolies seeking to...
View ArticleAttempts to Measure the Administrative State: A Review and Critique
Derek BonettFrom the early 1960s through the mid-1980s, the typical regulatory study applied a microeconomic analysis to an industry characterized by price and entry restrictions, such as airlines,...
View ArticleTerrorists by Immigration Status and Nationality: A Risk Analysis, 1975–2017
Alex NowrastehTerrorism is a hazard to human life and material prosperity that should be addressed in a sensible manner whereby the benefits of actions taken to contain it outweigh the costs....
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