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  • November 20, 2014
    Cato Online Forum
    How Land-Use Restrictions Block Growth
    … live in them. Urbanization has always been a critical part of modern economic growth. Early industrialization occurred alongside a mass migration from the countryside and small villages to booming industrial cities. London was already one of the world’s largest …
    By Ryan Avent
  • October 25, 2009
    Times of India
    Twenty Years Later: Why the Berlin Wall Fell
    … act or move. Masses of youngsters began emigrating from the Communist paradises to the supposed hell‐​holes of the West. Migration was easiest from East Germany to West Germany. Official migration touched 197,000 in 1950, 165,000 in 1951 …
    By Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar
  • October 8, 2012
    Blog
    A Highway to Nowhere
    … that such schemes cannot foster economic development in these regions. The best choice might be to do nothing and let emigration improve outcomes for the people in these areas. In any case, when you hear about the radical spending reductions …
    By John Samples
  • March 20, 2017
    Cato Online Forum
    Between Authoritarianism and Human Capital
    … the institutions of the European Union in place. I see the EU, with its program of free trade and free migration, as more pro‐​liberty than not. Right now the main question is a defensive one of whether these gains …
    By Tyler Cowen
  • November 15, 2023
    Blog
    How Free Is Your State?
    How Free Is Your State?
    … have worsened a lot since 2018. We also had the opportunity to test the effects of freedom on growth and migration for the past decade and the one before. We continue to find that economic freedom increases subsequent real income …
    By Jason Sorens and William Ruger
  • December 9, 2020
    Blog
    High-Earners Are Moving to Low-Tax States
    … Sachs is “exploring tax advantages” of moving a major division from New York City to Florida. The chart shows interstate migration and taxes. The vertical axis is the ratio of in‐​migration to out‐​migration for households earning more than …
    By Chris Edwards
  • August 4, 2003
    Investor’s Business Daily
    State Tax Hikes Aided By Deductibility Rules
    … rate cut in 1995 and a 20% cut later in the decade. Other provinces had to take action because interprovincial migration of skilled workers is high. Alberta responded first by replacing its multiple tax rate structure with a flat rate …
    By Chris Edwards
  • November 17, 2021
    Blog
    Can the Three Amigos Make a Comeback?
    President Biden can set the right tone by getting back to the basics of North American economic relations, and leveraging our relationship with Canada and Mexico to achieve our common goals through openness and competition.
    By Inu Manak and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon
  • October 25, 2021
    Blog
    Anthony Downs, RIP
    Anthony Downs was one of the greatest political economists of the 20th century and helped lay the foundations for public choice theory, and much of the modern economic study of voting and democracy.
    By Ilya Somin
  • December 21, 2021
    Blog
    Will Joe Manchin Switch Parties?
    If Sen. Joe Manchin joined the Republican Party, his voting would likely become more conservative. But not so much if he became an independent caucusing with the Democrats. 
    By David Boaz
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