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    Jagdish Bhagwati
    Jagdish Bhagwati
    … Persons Group advising on the future of United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). He formerly served as Economic Policy Advisor to Director‐​General to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) from 1991–1993, Special Adviser to …
  • May 23, 2024
    Blog
    What's Donald Trump Doing at the Libertarian Party Convention?
    What’s Donald Trump Doing at the Libertarian Party Convention?
    … individual” and to specifically run candidates for office on a platform of personal liberty, economic liberty, and a peaceful foreign policy. Needless to say, that’s not Donald Trump’s platform, nor does it describe his actions as president. Which …
    By David Boaz
  • August 25, 2023
    The Epoch Times
    Bay Area Could Use a Fresh Wave of Chinese Immigrants
    Bay Area Could Use a Fresh Wave of Chinese Immigrants
    … migrants. The People’s Republic is experiencing a tepid recovery from COVID-19, high youth unemployment, and frustration with government policies. The Bay Area could attract a large share of Chinese expatriates, but substantial policy changes will be needed at …
    By Marc Joffe
  • July 2, 2021
    Wall Street Journal
    The Local School Board Is Unaccountable, So I’m Running for a Seat
    The Local School Board Is Unaccountable, So I’m Running for a Seat
    … the seven‐​member school board in our small city had other priorities. It repeatedly deferred to the superintendent on pandemic policy and instead debated whether to change the names of Thomas Jefferson Elementary and George Mason High School. The board …
    By Ilya Shapiro
  • November 6, 2019
    Blog
    Immigration and Homicide Rates in New York City: 1850-2017
    … studies research the relationship between crime and immigration in recent years and decades – which is most relevant for setting public policy today. However, I recently came across historical homicide data for New York City going back to the 18th century …
    By Alex Nowrasteh
  • December 5, 2017
    Blog
    How Black Markets Saved Spanish Cheesemaking (Plus, a Cookie Sequel)
    … cheese.” The villain in the piece is dictator Francisco Franco, who ruled from 1939 until his death in 1975, his policies on this subject lingering on for some years thereafter. With a taste for centralized command, Franco wanted to impose …
    By Walter Olson
  • February 14, 2017
    Investor’s Business Daily (Online)
    Let’s Make Health Insurance Legal Again
    … suffer. With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act in 2014 an effective ban on many forms of health insurance policies went into effect. Until then people were able to purchase any type of insurance policy that an insurance company …
    By Jeffrey A. Singer
  • Winter 2013 - 2014
    Regulation
    Overcome by Complexity
    … costs of abatement.) More skeptical critics suggest that pollution impacts are so complex that little basis exists for setting optimal policies and that existing policies extend control far beyond clear major threats. Impediments to good analysis / How should we reconcile …
    By Richard L. Gordon
  • January 7, 2014
    Blog
    NYT Reports on Indigent Defense Vouchers in Texas
    … jurisdictions around the country have drifted toward the public defender model. To the extent that indigent defense is debated among policymakers, it has pretty much centered on how much money should be spent on the public defender offices. That’s …
    By Tim Lynch
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