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  • May 16, 2006
    Blog
    Debating the Massachusetts Health Plan
    … long on cost and short on benefits). These elephants in the room are ignored in most discussions of health care policy, but they are addressed in Crisis of Abundance, a must‐​have book that incidentally makes a great gift. 3 …
    By Arnold Kling
  • November 13, 2004
    Chicago Sun-Times
    Smokers Already Are Paying a High Cost for Their Habit
    … making our own decisions about cigarettes. That’s why it’s important to understand the $40 cost and the public policy implications of Sloan’s work. Assuming the numbers are accurate, their principal utility lies in helping private parties make …
    By Robert A. Levy
  • February 8, 2001
    Cato.org
    Are We Really Deregulating Telecom?
    … we’ve seen what might be called “Deregulation Lite,” with some minor rules and restrictions relaxed by the Telecom Act. Policy makers give a great deal of lip service to the benefits of free markets, but they refuse to allow …
    By Adam D. Thierer
  • December 12, 2003
    Conference
    Global Warming: The State of the Debate
    … the science and economics surrounding greenhouse gas concentrations and abatement. Moreover, it tackles squarely what is perhaps the most relevant policy issue at the moment—the potential costs and benefits involved in dealing with scientific uncertainty. Registration is now closed …
  • January 1, 2003
    Books
    Who Rules the Net?
    Who Rules the Net?
    … and regulatory approaches vary from country to country, as reflected in such policies as free speech and libel standards, privacy policies, intellectual property, antitrust law, domain name dispute resolution, and tax policy. In each of those areas, policymakers have for …
    By Adam D. Thierer and Clyde Wayne Crews Jr.
  • February 6, 2020
    The Hill
    Interest Rate Caps Harm Consumers
    … consumers. Many people use small‐​dollar loans because they lack access to cheaper bank credit – they’re “underbanked,” in the policy jargon. The FDIC survey classified 18.7 percent of all US households as underbanked in 2017. In Virginia, the …
    By Thomas W. Miller, Jr.
  • December 7, 2018
    Blog
    New York: Damned If You Do Insure Guns, Damned If You Don’t
    … or doing away with the exercise of a constitutional right. As David Rivkin and Andrew Grossman wrote in 2013:  Insurance policies cover accidents, not intentional crimes, and criminals with illegal guns will just evade the requirement. The real purpose is …
    By Walter Olson
  • July 19, 2016
    Blog
    The Tyranny of Free Parking
    Should big-city governments be giving valuable city property to its wealthy residents for a pittance? 
    By Ike Brannon
  • February 3, 2016
    National Review (Online)
    Republicans after Iowa
    As the primary season begins, how do the serious GOP candidates shape up?
    By Michael D. Tanner
  • September 26, 2013
    Blog
    New IPCC Report Will Be Internally Inconsistent and Misleading
    The UN’s IPCC seems more intent on maintaining the crumbling “consensus” on anthropogenic global warming than on following climate science to its logical conclusion.
    By Patrick J. Michaels and Paul C. “Chip” Knappenberger
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