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  • July 8, 2022
    Blog
    Some Distributive Effects of Rent Control
    As Scott Lincicome noted in this space last year, Cato scholars and the great majority of economists have opposed rent control policies, which tend to generate housing shortages while discouraging investment in new construction and maintenance, among other harmful effects …
    By Walter Olson
  • November 6, 2021
    Time Observer
    Offering Choice on School Masks Not ‘Frustrating’
    Offering Choice on School Masks Not ‘Frustrating’
    As a mom and a former teacher, Bucks County resident Jamie Walker knows the importance of education. And she’s exasperated by policies that have been instituted in the wake of COVID-19, such as Pennsylvania’s mask mandate. “The …
    By Colleen Hroncich and Solomon Chen
  • October 29, 2021
    Real Clear Education
    School Choice Is the Way to Prevent Mask Battles in Schools
    School Choice Is the Way to Prevent Mask Battles in Schools
    As a mom and a former teacher, Bucks County resident Jamie Walker knows the importance of education. And she’s exasperated by policies that have been instituted in the wake of COVID-19, such as Pennsylvania’s mask mandate. “The …
    By Colleen Hroncich and Solomon Chen
  • October 1, 2021
    Blog
    ‘Just Follow the Science’: An Update
    Last summer I wrote an essay about what science can and cannot do and the role it can play in public policy decisions including those pertaining to the COVID-19 pandemic. I concluded that science explains relationships between cause and …
    By Peter Van Doren
  • Fall 2021
    Regulation
    Where’s the Beef?
    Where’s the Beef?
    In her latest book, Cogs and Monsters, University of Cambridge economist Diane Coyle, co‐​director of the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, undertakes an ambitious project: to say what we need to change about economic thinking inherited from the 20th …
    By David R. Henderson
  • May 14, 2021
    UK Telegraph
    More Active Government Means a Greater Risk of Corruption
    More Active Government Means a Greater Risk of Corruption
    … government relations manager”. Responsibilities for the role include “assisting in identifying legislative and other policy trends and developing strategies and policy language to further Zoom’s interests” and “developing a broad and deep network of relationships with policymakers, thought leaders …
    By Ryan Bourne
  • September 14, 2020
    Blog
    Another President, Another Unfortunate Innovation in Executive Power
    … about “an unfortunate innovation in executive power” during the Obama administration, which I called “leverage policymaking.” In a nutshell, “leverage policymaking” entails regulatory agencies using individual transactions with large corporations—such as enforcement or licensing actions—to achieve broad policy …
    By William Yeatman
  • July 13, 2020
    Blog
    This Is Your Constitution on Drugs
    Have you ever thought about how much the modern War on Drugs has affected our constitutional order? I don’t mean for policy purposes, but in terms of the scope of federal power and violation of a whole host of …
    By Ilya Shapiro
  • December 4, 2019
    Washington Examiner
    2020 Democrats Are School Choice Hypocrites
    What’s good for the goose is good for the gander — unless you’re talking about the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates and education policy. The majority of the front‐​runners either attended private schools themselves or sent their own children …
    By Corey A. DeAngelis and Tommy Schultz
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